I’ve decided I need to be much more disciplined with my work.
Today, for example, I feel like I got almost nothing done despite having been home all day and working relatively long hours. I had important things to do but I kept putting them off.
Why do I do this? Probably just human nature I guess. A lot of it is rationalization. “If I go upstairs immediately after lunch, I can play a quick game before starting work again!”
And then throughout the day you find yourself browsing Google news for the 10th time, looking at pointless articles.
Part of the problem is that I see that I have a lot of things to get done during the day, and I just procrastinate on the difficult ones. In reality, I think if I condensed what I was doing down to just a small time frame, and just focused on it, I could get all of that done and more.
Maybe I need to just actually have a timeline, and say that I’ll only work for, say, 6 hours per day at most. And then just agree to work really hard and focus hard during that time.
But that’s not to say I haven’t improved in this area. One of the first website I built took months, and it was basically my only client. I would spend the whole day playing games or distracting myself in other ways.
I’ve made large strides over time to improve it, but I realize that nothing ever came all at once. It’s been slow progress. Every year is just a bit better. But the last couple weeks, at least, I feel like I have not been very disciplined. And I need to improve that.
If I want to work on the business and change a bunch of things in my business, I need to finish the other things first. And that won’t happen on its own.
(Note: this article was originally private and I’m not sure why. Upon reading it years later, I have made it public.)