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Procrastination at work?

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  My kids won't leave me alone at home, so going into the office is wonderful. BUT, once I get here, I find myself tooling around the internet, not actually focusing 100% on work. Why am I so distracted! Does anyone else have this issue?

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by Thordora on 21st June 2007
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  I used to work in an office full-time. On days when I didn't have a meeting in the morning or something pressing to get done, I found that I procrastinated a lot. I think this was my way to relax a little. At home things were always nuts and busy, so the only place I could chill out was at work, procrastinating

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by Nataly on 21st June 2007
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  Hi,
  
  
  
  It's soooo easy to get lost online chasing a research topic or
  
  getting online home shopping done when I had planned to
  
  be working on other things instead .
  
  
  
  Like Nataly, I realized I was doing that because it was FUN
  
  and a way to chill out. Then, I decided to give myself
  
  a set amount of time to chill and kind of programmed my
  
  brain for that time limit.
  
  
  
  I wrote down something like: "Annemarie, you get 20 minutes of
  
  online-whatever when the urge hits." My brain does pretty good
  
  remembering the time limit...amazing!
  
  
  
  It's like recess!!
  
  
  
  Allowing myself to do that was the trick I needed and
  
  I found it helped me to generate new ideas, too.
  
  Hey, it's how I found workitmom.com!
  
  
  
  Talk to you later,
  
  Annemarie

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by on 12th August 2007
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  P.S. Sometimes procrastination can be a symptom of something else...
  
  like an unmet need -- in my case RECESS -- or concern.

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by on 12th August 2007
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  When I worked in an office I definitely suffered from procrastination...I finally worked out a system to deal with it. The first half of the day was work,work,work then after lunch I'd relax and do completely un-work-related things until the last hour when I would return calls and organize for the next day. It was the best of both worlds.

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by Lisa R.(dirtydiapersyndrome) on 18th August 2007
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  Yeah, I split up the day. First 30 mins, emails and messages. Then a bit of browsing. Work til noon. Browse thru lunch. More work. And I leave myself some time before I leave to tool around.
  
  
  
  ahhhh. I love work.

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by Thordora on 21st August 2007