I’m been thinking about how much time I spend blogging, tweeting, being on Facebook, and reading other blogs. I’ve decided to set aside one day a week for all of this. If I did that, I’d have more time to get work done and more time to write, and I wouldn’t feel guilty. The truth is, I feel guilty enough that I don’t read blogs like I used to. I used to read blogs every single day. Now, I’m lucky if I get on every day.
I get awfully distracted during the day. I think, “I need to tweet this!”, or “I need to check Twitter to see if so-and-so replied to me about blahblahblah!”, “Let me check my email real quick!”, or “I need to blog this!” I use these things as a means to procrastinate. I do it without even meaning to. Before I know it, I’ve spent a half hour tweeting, twenty minutes blogging, another twenty minutes reading through Facebook, and another few minutes staring at my screen trying to figure out what I was doing before. I feel guilty that, in the hour or so I spent tweeting, blogging, and on Facebook, I could have been writing, or doing some work.
I’m far from lazy. I do get things done, but I know I could and should be getting more done.
It will be hard, but I need to stop letting these things distract me. I expect I’ll be jumping on now and then anyway, but I want to make Sunday my official “blogging and social time” day. I want to discipline myself not to jump on every few minutes to check something or say something. I want to have the kind of restraint where it can wait. I don’t want to be this attention deficit creature that spends every hour of every day trying to keep up with everything and yet getting distracted like the dog in Up.
This isn’t to say I’m not going to be around at all. I’m just going to try really hard to not be on constantly, every day. So, if you see me on Twitter dicking around, slap my digital hand.
