How to be a great procrastinator

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8 years ago

How to be a great procrastinator

By Paul F. Murray

While reading the information which Kyle provided as a preface to Lesson 4 regarding my online Wealthy Affiliate business, I was intrigued by the question about wasting time. I have sometimes had a lot of self-discipline and dived right into that day’s work and learning. At other times, I have found myself scared and afraid to dive in for fear of not being able to understand the lesson material. At such times, I have found myself often doing one or more of the following:

1. Checking my emails frequently. You never know when I will find one or two really interesting ones. This is particularly the case since I am single and a member of several dating sites.
2. Listening to music on YouTube. It’s all free, and it’s there for the listening anytime you want to kill a few minutes and move yourself closer to the time you plan to stop for the day.
3. Using the internet to go over the sports on TV for that evening.
4. Check out the Fox News, CNN, MSNBC online news. What’s happening in Washington or North Korea or Syria may be more important than getting meaningful online work done anyway.
5. Engaging in too much chat, even within training. Chat can be a tremendous boon for people looking for quick answers from people with more experience and knowledge than they have. It can also be a great way to use your experience and knowledge to help others along. Or, alternatively, it can be a way to kill some time by simply engaging in gobbledygook conversations that just serve to successfully eat up time.
6. Worrying about this, that, or the other thing, such as what I should buy at the supermarket for supper.

I’m being facetious, of course. I have found that—usually—when I dive right into that day’s super affiliate training, the lesson is not as difficult as I had thought. And if it is, the community and Kyle are there to help.

Have I touched all of the procrastinator ideas, or are there some more out there?