With this being the summer and most of the folk I know (including my kids) on holiday I’m battling procrastination more than ever. The real question in my mind is should I work or should I no[sic].
Whilst trying to decide whether I should watch the Channel four programme on Castleford or pootle on the webs my mind wandered to David Barrie. Lo and behold his blog throws up the most exquisite piece on procrastination including quoting from my favourite song (The Clash – and not I’m sure if I should stay or go so I’ll probably do the one which requires the least effort) and a link to what I can only describe as the flow chart of faff.
Right. Back to “randomly browsing”, which these days seems to also involve watching my partner sit on the sofa working, next to my diligent daughter who’s reading another book whilst following LitteLaura on twitter as she polishes off another couple of websites.
Double Meh.
August 18th, 2008 at 9:29 pm (#)
Wonderful article and sum up. I am very much in the same boat and the flow chart of faff is wonderful (by the way, only first came across the word ‘faff’ which is now one of my favourite words, when living in Brum). Glad keeping the world happy as LittleLaura on twitter too. :mrgreen:
August 18th, 2008 at 9:43 pm (#)
I to love Faff. I especially like it when someone has a “faff on”.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:17 pm (#)
There is a real skill to faffing and my mind wanders to knowing what to say next – but the view out of the window *is* engrossing…for a moment… :smile:
September 28th, 2008 at 10:54 pm (#)
[...] It’s a brilliant opportunity, so whether you are the School of Everything or the North Birmingham Social Enterprise – go Britain, get the dosh. Quickly mind, no faffing. [...]
October 8th, 2008 at 11:26 pm (#)
[...] A few months ago, before switching on the kettle in the morning to make a cup of tea, I’d start up the computer, open the email inbox and RSS. Then, Twitter would be there as well as a myriad of other applications. For the work I do, I need lots of screen estate, especially when designing or coding. I really like FriendFeed also and would dip into that often too. My day would become ‘noisy’ and often disjointed. As well as managing work, the noise of everything else would be there, the inbox showing more mail had arrived and on it all went. When settling into my new freelance routine, as well as juggling lots of exciting new projects, with the added noise it all ended up with me entering the procrastination loop at times, kindly brought to my attention by Nick Booth of Podnosh in his post, the Flow chart of Faff. [...]
October 15th, 2008 at 7:01 am (#)
There is a real skill to faffing and my mind wanders to knowing what to say next – but the view out of the window is engrossing…for a moment izlekop