Lisa, where are you lately?
admin, August 20th, 2008 Sometimes I find myself in quite a stagnant place with my online work. I wind up paralyzed and usually spend my days mindlessly surfing the web. Some of it feels like I should actually be doing some of this web wandering – like reading up on new internet marketing techniques and happenings, but the rest of it is usually just nothing more than a wild goose chase. I can look at one person’s Twitter stream and get lost for two hours IN A SNAP! looking at the links they’ve posted and following through on their conversations, and then looking at the links their followers have posted…. Seriously – I’ll open ONE new email saying, ‘Joe Smith is following you’ and so, of course, I go check out his profile, so I can decide if I want to return the follow. I’ll check out his recent tweets, check out his website, follow a few of his conversations – and next thing you know – TWO HOURS have passed! All from opening one freaking email!
The crazy part of all of this is that a lot of this ‘mindlessness’ is actually caused by having too much on my mind! Here, let’s let my new friend, Gary, explain it. He said it so eloquently:
And that, my friends, is exactly where I’m at right now! And then some! I have so many blankety blank ideas bumping around in my head right now that it is driving me crazy. I’ve heard all kinds of different ways to deal with this and I think I’m gonna have to sit down today a few of them! I’ve been jotting things down in my notebook I keep beside me, but, that is just not helping. Well, it’s not helping near enough, anyway.
One thing I am thinking about doing, though I’m not sure if it’s the smartest way to go, is to just focus on one site at a time, and let the others sit and wait for their turn. I’ve got mountains of ideas in my head screaming at me for each site, though – so I don’t know if that will keep the peace in there or just make things worse.
And to top things off, there is actually life happening around me outside of my computer and the internet! The nerve! Can’t the world still-pause while I get things in order here? Sheesh! The kids have all kinds of band things going on almost constantly. (My daughter is now officially in band, too. So as of last night, we have three band members in the family – a trumpet, a trombone, and another trumpet. Yea!) There’s also that thing called school with all of it’s accompanying needs and demands. The housework is piling up. I’ve got a sore throat. (First sickness of the season – I went all summer without getting sick. Cool!) And I just found out that I’ll actually have FIVE kids for the weekend. I forgot I’d promised to keep my nieces. That means I have to keep track of two little kids at the football game Friday night. Oh my!
So you can see, all these things – kids, band, school, sicknesses, housework, nieces – they just don’t understand. I have work to do. Lots of work. Ay ay ay!
I think I’ll just go meditate!
Categories: WAHM Challenges
2 Reader Comments
I was logging in to reply to this post ….and the ‘Hello Dolly’ quote on my dashboard said,
Omigod. Same here. This always happens to me like, I need to wash the dishes but decided to surf for a couple of websites but not knowing I spent my time surfing for more than an hour already.
oh yay!