Pontifications from a Practising Procrastinator

It is easy to do good work that matters to you.

All you have to do is exceed the expectations of the person(s) that you are working for in those tasks for which you have taken ownership - those tasks that matter to you.

The difficulty in that for me involves starting work.

I can find so many things to do before I start to do anything productive that nothing productive gets done.

I have email coming in with pundits relating the next big thing, I have news feeds that have to be checked, I have RSS feeds for a gazillion sites guaranteeing that something will change each day. I have ebay stuff to do, I have pictures to plan and take, I have forums to check and contribute to, and I have housework to do too. On top of that I am now watching about 8 series on TV so I have to watch those when the wife is out (Sci-fi is not her thing!).

All of which is a great load of excuses for not doing anything that matters to me.

Deciding what matters to you when you are your own master is hard for me - I have always defined myself in terms of my employment - now I am not employed, I am a little bit undecided as to what I should turn my attention.

Which brings me to the point of all this navel-gazing.

"End Malaria" (Kindle link - non-affiliate) may be a strange title for a business book, but it contains some musings by some gifted people that are all about working smarter and happier. And a portion of each sale goes towards mosquito nets for Africa to help end malaria. That's a win-win.

Reading it may simply be another way of not starting something that matters, but it got me writing this blog post....