Young Hands Club

I got to say, I’m not too impressed with myself for my first week. On the one hand, I did get clarity and better direction from speaking up in the Forum, I managed to complete all my tasks, and I also have noticed keeping track of the time I spend has indeed helped me with my time estimations. But the other hand…

Here’s the thing I really need to focus on in the coming weeks: killing procrastination. As I was writing out my penance article and thinking back on my life with a more critical eye I remember that I have let this bad habit get me into trouble in the past. Never really big trouble, but cumulative trouble that just ends up slowly sinking me over time. Moreover it is pretty juvenile behavior, especially apparent to me as I look around at people building businesses and/or making new lives in new countries and I can’t even get my ass to my desk so that I get my work done on time.

My penance article, the ebuilds article, this review, and the wk 1 plan were all late by several hours. I know that this is precisely because I take way too much time getting started on any task if I don’t ‘feel like it’ in the moment. Once I get going I can (and do) keep it up for hours on end, ((Which, also gets me in trouble. Case in point, during those 3 months of working on the mp-wp bot I’d find myself not really starting my work until 9pm, and then would work until 3 or 4am. Perhaps this wouldn’t be an issue if I did not have a “9-5” job, but that’s my reality atm and I need to work within it.)) but I need to start getting in the habit of just forcing myself to get over it. The more I do it the easier it’ll be, but I need to hold myself to this.