I've entered into some sort of unsettled mood of late. It isn't a depression (I know the photos are "darker" but really I'm just playing in Aperture and this seemed as good of a post as any to put them up in) for I'm happy and joking. But I don't seem to do anything. I've gotten lazy. Okay those of you with your hands in the air to say "lazier" can just put them down.
I find myself these days endlessly refreshing the Facebook pages and my stats or playing a game on Leah's iPod Touch, knowing that I could be using the time much more productively, but not even trying. My unfinished projects are no closer to being finished.
I'm assuming this has been brought about not working, and really I know I've got things to fill in my days. A lot of things. So this is my public kick in the pants. Its time to get at things that have been too long on the back burner, a booklet on the war dead from my home town; two or three screenplays; magazine articles that have been floating around; correspondence left uncorresponded, its time. My early New Year's resolution is to turn off the internet for at least a couple of hours a day, and get back to work.
And this time. I mean it. You can put down your hands.
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I’m in the same mood. Not depressed. But not driven. Indecentely procrastinating. I hate it. Very unlike me. Can we blame it on the time of year ? Were we, in a distant geological past creatures just about to go into hibernation ? Sigh.
I can really sympathize with that. For me it’s partially, I think, related to working from home with no hard deadlines, or at least no imminent deadlines. When I have things due that need to be done NOW I get stuff done and I’m pretty productive. If my deadline is to get stuff done ten months from now, or there is no deadline, I find it hard to get motivated on any given day. It’s so much easier just to flow with inertia and reload Facebook again.
I think in part its just an extension of my well entrenched inner procrastinator Suzanne. And in part it is easy to fall prey to this insane combination of productivity and entertainment that is the modern home computer. However I have downloaded Freedom, a Mac App that prevents access to the internet for a set period of time, up to 8 hours. That seems to help a bit.
I definitely work much better with looming deadlines Seabrooke. Actually with deadlines that have just passed.
Great shots as usual Clare!