What we learn isn’t power until we use it, this post is about being productive so please for the love of god don’t just read this page and then forget about it in three days. DO SOMETHING WITH IT!!!

Actually, really, out in the real world, implementing what you learn from other people is a big part of being productive, learn something new and do it, learn something new and do it, learn something new….you get the picture.

Usually the really important things we should be doing are the ones we hate the most. I’ve found that it’s best to just get the crap outta the way so we can relax, it gives us this sense of accomplishment and even more of a reason to finish the rest of the work which is kind of a piece of cake from there on.

For example before I started writing this article, I didn’t know what I wanted to say, or how I was going to go about saying it, all I had was a topic I wanted to write on. It all seemed semi-complicated and like a looming cloud of something I simply didn’t feel like doing because frankly, I’m worn out from work but that’s just how things are in life.

Things we SHOULD BE doing we aren’t usually going to like…everything seems tougher than when we just dive right in and start doing it. Things just start to flow after we get started and stop procrastinating.

This is especially important if you own your own business or would like to…when we don’t have anyone watching over our shoulder or telling us what the next step is, then we need to become our own motivator we need to become our own inspiration, we need to be able to pick our own self up off the ground when need be.

Turn on the eye of the tiger song, grit our teeth and push through, it’s the price we need to pay if we’re ever to escape from the mundane.

It’s much easier just to chill out, watch some T.V. scratch yourself, and drink a beer before crashing for the night…then get up go to work and do it all again the next day, I know this.

This world is a great big festering neon distraction, everything wants your attention, and people have paid millions of dollars just to distract your mind from what you were doing to what THEY want you to do. This is politics, this is consumerism, but we need to defend ourselves against it lest we just be capitalistic zombies.

Post signs up, little sticky notes next to your T.V. and computer saying “is this the most important thing you could be doing right now” and hopefully it will remind you because I know how time can slip away, days, months, years. How our best intentions our dreams can sometimes be killed and that couple of minutes watching the tube turns into three hours of veg’ing out. Time to fight for our minds, I hope I’m motivating and not seeming commanding here.

If we were to plan to do things it usually works out better because we all know we can make a million and one great excuses as to why we shouldn’t or can’t do the dishes today, or mow the grass, or finish making new content, take our Dog and Girlfriend for a walk, or whatever.

Yet also we both know these things got to get done else stuff starts falling apart, so it’s best to set the time aside ahead of time. Two hours of uninterrupted time where we do nothing but work on the important stuff not just the urgent stuff (not everything urgent is important at the same time). Think long term and set some blocks for every day, at least two hours.

Remember procrastination makes us feel bad inside and just going for it and getting to work makes us feel productive, accomplished, and happy.

I hope this came out right but hell it’s too late now, it’s up and you’ve already read it so there it is, hope it helps you live the journey ya want to live, now get out there and make stuff happen.