- Make a cup of coffee
- Phone a friend
- Compile your To Do list for next week
- Check Facebook, even though you hate Facebook and you hate yourself for checking Facebook
- Update your current reads on Goodreads
- Phone another friend
- Pay your bills online
- Pull a few unwanted clothes from your wardrobe for the charity shop bag
- Make another cup of coffee
- Order a replacement carpet protector for under your desk, because you’ve had just about enough of catching your chair on the splintered shreds of the old one
- Rate all the products you’ve recently purchased on Amazon
- Review your KDP and CreateSpace stats
- Clear out an old work folder and retrieve any pages printed on one side only for re-use
- Look through all the old pieces of writing you’ve already rejected a dozen times for material, and reject it all again
- Wash out the filters on your Dyson vacuum cleaner
- Top up your cloakroom soap dispenser
- Clean out the squishy vegetables and other time-expired produce from your fridge
- Make another cup of coffee
- Take a photograph of the winter pansies outside your kitchen window, which have lately appeared, despite the combined onslaughts of urban foxes and neighbourhood felines
- Write a list post comprising all the things you’ve been doing for the last three hours because you couldn’t think what to write for your blog.
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And voila! You have a post. 🙂
I’m finding my own trips to Facebook growing shorter and shorter. Soon I’ll spend less time on it per day than I do putting on my socks!
And… Voila! 🙂
I agree re Facebook, and have lately noticed fewer of my friends making personal contributions (as opposed, say, to sharing truisms and other endlessly circulated material).
I’m starting to think mastering two social media sites is the limit. Or at least it’s my limit. My blog and Twitter are where I devote my time. The rest get neglected, but I do my best.
Again, I agree… I enjoy blogging (better, when I can think of material), but find other social media tough-going – even Twitter. And there are now so many different channels, no one can devote the time necessary to them all!
Perfect illustration of the process:0)). I do this same thing every time I think to go paint. I so enjoyed this post – thank you!
You’re welcome! Procrastination is an art all of its own. 🙂
Love this! The art of procrastination in twenty steps!
I’m a Jedi Master of this ancient art…
This is my life! Full stop. On all days! I don’t even have a blog! I just spend my time wondering what to do next. And making another cup of coffee….. or tea in my case 🙂
You could always start a blog……… 😉
Or go back to work….. 😉
Ah yes… there is always that! 😉
Great list!
Thank you! It was a tortuous morning!
That’s a hysterical post…so clever. Now I have a few new ideas to add to my procrastination list. Thanks a lot! Ha ha.
Ha! Thank you… When it comes to procrastination tactics – it was a hyper-creative day!
I’ve had a few of those days myself. Great list.
Thank you 🙂
Wonderful! And what a good housekeeper you are!
But only when I’m procrastinating!
Love it! There is an art to procrastination and now with several new options (umm, excuses) to add to my repertoire I too can become a Jedi Master!
There is no limit to the number of ways one can procrastinate if one desires to achieve mastery of the art!