At first his comes off as amateurish and I didn't find it funny. However, once he started going through why we procrastinate, it made a lot of sense. Upvote.

He has the same procrastination habits as I do; and the same furniture as I do...



There must be something in the furniture!

Hmmm *quality tips to avoid procrastinating, which isn't what I'm doing now, I swear!

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by notarobot.

I'll watch this later.

so while procrastinating (yes, i'm honest. i should be working now) i'm watching a clip on how to stop procrastinate. is that some sort of infinite loop? am i trapped in a recursion? oh that reminds me i have to look that up. like right now

Who puts in the milk before the water?!??!?!?

(Note to self: put comment about this sift here later)

Thanks, Charlie!
http://charliemcdonnell.com/

If I really cared about getting anything done I would need to cancel my VS account and block it.

I know full well my procrastination habits, and my main method of getting rid of them? Don't... sort of... I write off the first hour or so of a working day to checking email, checking facebook, checking videosift, checking engadget etc. etc. And once that's done the new things to see and read etc. are pretty much all gone (and being on Austalian time, and most of the stuff coming out while I'm asleep, it doesn't drip feed that fast during the day) then I can really get stuck into work... plus I have sufficiently slacked that my mind is into a really good 'right, I'm relaxed and feel I need to be productive' mode.

It's that whole 'getting into the zone' thing with coding (yes, I'm a coder by trade).

So... yeah.

But I completely agree with his tips as once you're IN the zone you don't want to be out of it... and I find that headphones and music help a lot there. I have some albums that I have listened to literally THOUSANDS of times now (The first Enigma album is one)... because I can put them on, they get me into the right mindset and I stay there.

And I found his style charming, he's got a talent there

>> ^spoco2:

It's that whole 'getting into the zone' thing with coding (yes, I'm a coder by trade).Same. I also try to get my procrastinating done in the first hour of the day; then it's on with the headphones. Unfortunately I'm a nicotine and caffeine addict which gets me when I'm between tasks.



Do you have a KARLSTAD two-seater leather sofa as well?

>> ^L0cky:

>> ^spoco2:
It's that whole 'getting into the zone' thing with coding (yes, I'm a coder by trade).Same. I also try to get my procrastinating done in the first hour of the day; then it's on with the headphones. Unfortunately I'm a nicotine and caffeine addict which gets me when I'm between tasks.

Do you have a KARLSTAD two-seater leather sofa as well?


No leather sofa... and sadly no Aeron chair like in the heady dot com days... oh how I miss that chair!

Heh I still have the aeron. Well actually, my mum has it, strangely. You can't dismantle them, so they're hard to get around >> ^spoco2:

No leather sofa... and sadly no Aeron chair like in the heady dot com days... oh how I miss that chair!

>> ^spoco2:

And once that's done the new things to see and read etc. are pretty much all gone (and being on Austalian time, and most of the stuff coming out while I'm asleep, it doesn't drip feed that fast during the day) then I can really get stuck into work...


It's a good thing you haven't discovered Reddit then

>> ^spoco2:
And I found his style charming, he's got a talent there


Geesh, this guy is indeed charming. I want charm lessons from him, not procrastination lessons.

Did anyone else find him vaguely reminiscent of Matt Smith?

Videosift is my procrastination device.