As most of you faithful TMP followers have noticed, it has been about 2.5 weeks since I posted my last article ‘Losing Focus‘. About 5 minutes ago, I realized I wasn’t taking my own advice provided in that article and have been extremely unproductive. The question I have been asking myself since around Turkey Day has been, “Why?”
I love being productive and I love connecting with all of you. However, for about the last month I had felt disconnected from the real world and made the decision to kick back my online time. This action was wrong on my part though. I still need to share my thoughts with all of you and still feel like I can do so. What I have come to realize is that a lot of time I spend online is wasted time. Whether I am browsing the internet, watching youtube videos or constantly looking at digg links, I have always seemed to lose focus. I have tried to counteract such nonproductive actions by implementing many of your suggestions as well as reapplying my own advice from here and LifeExcursion (which, by the way, should hopefully be back to ‘AWESOME’ status soon) and that has definitely helped. But what it all came down to was that I needed to “Take a Break”. It had nothing to do with blogging. It had everything to do with the lack of focus on what was important all along which is blogging. All that wasted unproductive time killed my drive to succeed in the blogging world. That led to my “Break” and now rejuvenated return.
“Taking a Break” was the last thing I should have accepted a long time ago. What I needed to do was focus? I am making a full faith effort to use my time more wisely. I am re-implementing a more minimalist approach to my actions online and hopefully, this will lead to more productivity and less of a burnout.
My advice today is to step back from whatever you are doing and see if you are cramming unproductive actions into the time you can and truly want to be productive. It took “Taking a Break” for me to realize my non-minimalist actions. I hope this post will help you recognize what is important and do more of whatever that is before it takes a burnout to really kill your momentum.
More minimalist posts coming at you in the near future….thanks for staying faithful to TMP everyone…
David Damron
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