Resolutions

[rebeccmeister]

My timing is inevitably off when it comes to new year's resolutions. Anyway, I've been thinking long and hard about this one - I have been spending too much time and mental energy on goofing off on the internet. I'm going to try to change that habit pretty dramatically, here, but I think I can make it work. My new goal is to stay away from distracting websites during schoolwork hours, with exceptions for posts to LJ (because I often need to work through ideas and I type faster than I write), and checking e-mail.

I will see how this goes for a couple of days, before I re-evaluate. I'm mostly hoping to cut down on the amount of time I spend on discussion boards and on FaceCrack, because those activities end up feeling unfulfilling. This is all part of my overall efforts to see what I can get done if I really try hard to focus my mental energies.

Comments

[jackalopemonger.livejournal.com]

I've been using Freedom a lot lately. It's great, as long as you don't need the internet for anything work-related.

[jackalopemonger.livejournal.com]

Found a better program - SelfControl - it's completely free and has the option of setting up a blacklist or whitelist, for selective internet denial.

[jackalopemonger.livejournal.com]

Mac only, though.