How to waste time
How to waste time
By Paul F. Murray
The past couple of weeks I have been working on concentrating and keeping busy during my Wealthy Affiliate study time. When I first started my Super Affiliate training, I would do some internet surfing and play some earphone music videos to unwind prior to getting started, especially if the SA lesson for that day was going to be something challenging and that I felt I would have difficulty with.
I also played some music videos about halfway, or a quarter of the way, or two-thirds of the way (or all three) through my four hours daily with my SA training. (I have a part-time job.)
Lo and behold, I finally discovered that doing things that way meant I wasn’t getting as much done during the course of the day as I felt that I should be getting done with my training. And, not always, but sometimes, I discovered that when I put the distractions aside and bore down on my training, the lesson was not as hard as I had thought. (Other times it was.)
The moral of this story is: the more time you spend wasting time, the less time you will have for your Super Affiliate training and the longer it will take you to complete each lesson.
That said, here are some of my favorite YouTube videos that I use when I need to take a short break from my SA training. Just don’t waste too much time on them or you’ll be in my former situation:
John Mellancamp: the video of his hit song “When the Walls Come Tumbling Down” is second to none and captures the anarchic mindset of youthful mistrust of authority.
Vanessa Paradis: the French singer’s two videos of her hit “Joe Le Taxi” as both a 14-year-old and as a young adult are a good comparison. I don’t care what she says, though, her tooth gap may have been cute when she was 14, but as an adult she really needs to get with a dentist.
Charlotte Church: her rendition of “Panis Angelicus” is representative of her strong Catholic religious faith prior to her having had two kids out of wedlock (and a potential third that miscarried).
Gordon Lightfoot: His soulful rendition of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” will almost have you on board that ill-fated ship in November 1975. A wonderful tribute to the 29 men who lost their lives when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in 550 feet of water in Lake Superior.
Enya: this beautiful Irish singer has a respect for her music that many other singers simply don’t have. Her rendition of “Adeste Fideles” is a good listen at Christmas or anytime, and it respects the tune and the lyrics in a way that no fast, jazzed up or rock’d up version ever will or could.
The Kingsmen: “Louie, Louie” is one the best dancing rock and roll melodies of all time. The true lyrics are a harmless story about a guy, his girlfriend, and their boat trip together.
The Trogs: You might get the impression from “Wild Thing” that this band (which originally called themselves “The Troglodytes”) might be a mess of unkempt long hair, unkempt beards and ragged, dirty clothes. Their video shows them as neatly dressed in suits, hair implacably in place and neatly kept, and no beards, the type of fellow you’d like your daughter to marry.
More later.
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They found the Edmund Fitzgerald a few years ago. The line "it may have broke deep and took water" turned out to be the case. Once the water inundated the deck, that was all she wrote with that huge load of iron ore.
Thank you for the update. Interesting that the mystery of why the Fitz sank has been solved.
It broke in half. They found it in 2 pieces on the bottom.