Whoops, am a bit late with the Top 5 challenge for last week. Anyway, I thought it fitting to have this week's Top 5 game on Favourite Ways to Avoid Getting Shit Done (aka Procrastinating). I went to a "Time Management" workshop today at work (ironically as a way to avoid Getting Shit Done At Work). There were the usual coloured textas and butchers paper, and a presenter who was like a cross between a Playschool presenter, Magda Szubanski (in the physical sense) and Tracey Ullmann (think crazy voices). The workshop began with the perenially unhelpful "helpful hints" ("Just do it!" "Give yourself rewards for finishing tasks!" - if I did this I WOULD be the size of two badly parked volkswagons). In the group sessions, you could literally feel the "engagement" and "ideas sharing" pulsating around the room (I believe I was making myself a coffee and helping myself to the biscuits when this was going on). But then it all descended into everyone craning their necks to observe the argument between the presenter and an arrogant male wanker lawyer type about whether homelessness was a "lifestyle choice". And yes, this had nothing to do with procrastination or how to avoid it, so you can guess how pleased I was about this particular two-hour black hole of my day. But no-one made me go, so I guess I can't complain. And the biscuits WERE good ones.
And since I'm tired, I'm gonna fill this out later. When I get around to it.
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1. Cleaning the house (unless the shit i am supposed to be getting done IS cleaning the house)
ReplyDelete2. Facebook. I ain't too proud to admit it.
3. Eating and/or thinking about what I might like to eat.
4. Alphabetising something, or generally putting something into some sort of order.
5. Going through contacts on mobile phone to check who my friends are that I've forgotten.