I can't decide what it is. It's probably some personal failing that I need to discover and extricate, but at the moment I can only blame my intertia on the nature of my dayjob.
My job is fairly boring and uneventful. Which is fine, it's what I wanted. A job with flexibility where I could do my theatre stuff while sitting at a nice desk with a computer and occasionally print a check or something. But I come here fairly often with plans to do productive things like mail out headshots, compile lists of agents, etc and end up just sitting and surfing the internet. Or e-mailing. And occasionally doing something work related until I force myself out of my chair to go work out.
All of that is kind of an exaggeration but not really. When I make lists, I tend to be better at accomplishing things, but then there's making the list.
I can't help but think that when I was at busy jobs, I still managed to find time to send out my headshots and coverletters, hunt through the theatre adds and any number of highly productive things. Is it because I was busy? I tend to think so. When I say to myself "this is the ONLY time I will be able to accomplish task A," I get it done. When I have all damn day I just sit here and nothing happens.
It's pissing me off and I need to figure out a way to correct this situation.
myriam [email] said at 1:35 PM 07-06-2005: I've found that productivity simply goes in cycles. some weeks you're gonna get shit done like the house is on fire and some weeks you will be a disparate pile of limbs weighed down by their unfocussed potential energy and just waiting for that comet to come along and set your body in motion.
denman [email] said at 1:46 PM 07-06-2005: Yeah, welcome to my life right now. I just got out of a "funk" like this. However, I still come to work with things to do, and end up bypassing all of that for, well, killoggs. I mean, I'm supposed to come in and answer e-mails for a few hours before openning up the cafe, but "time on task" seems to have been removed from my lexicon. Unfortunatelly I have no advice other than to reiterate what Myriam said.
emily [email] said at 3:33 PM 07-06-2005: Same boat. Right now I'm alone in my own little building next the the museum with my boss one building and 4 stories away from me. All alone, listening to Coldplay really loud and playing on killoggs. The difference is that I don't feel too bad about it.
meredith [email] said at 3:43 PM 07-06-2005: I pledge right here and now to get off of Killoggs and not come back until I've made some headway in my agent mailings.
meredith [email] said at 1:52 PM 07-07-2005: I did actually. I have one packet all ready for mailing. I will review things and complete the other tomorrow.
meredith [email] said at 2:41 PM 07-07-2005: I'm tired today and can't seem to stop reading every article about the bombings in London. So I will do good work tomorrow. That's my plan.
