SlowLearner: TWENTY WAYS TO COME OUT OF HIDING

October 08, 2008

TWENTY WAYS TO COME OUT OF HIDING

1. Answer every email.

2. Answer every phone message.

3. Check political blogs no more than twice per day. Pick favorite six. Read no others.

4. Finish writing that scene at the end of Viral that scares you so much.

5. Don't stay up late unless you're actually getting something done.

6. Don't work late at job unless it's an emergency.

7. Be outside one hour per day.

8. Post to blog. Even something stupid, like a list.

9. Show up at things.

10. If you don't show up at things, be actually doing something to justify it.

11. Don't make time to be with girlfriend and then spend it reading political blogs. See #3.

12. Stay for at least twelve minutes after each play you see.

13. Get all those Robots conversations going that you've been avoiding.

14. Get a calendar. Write things on it. Go to them.

15. Make a list every morning. Do the things on it. Until it's midnight. Then go to sleep.

16. Don't procrastinate and miss Sheila Callaghan/Production Company/International Culture Lab plays.

17. Answer the phone.

18. Don't be a dick.

19. Less sugar, caffeine; more water.

20. Do #18 again.

--SlowLearner

Oct 8, 2008 12:56:02 AM

15 Comments

I could have written this list. This speaks to me profoundly.

I have become a large fan of the Google Calendar.

Posted by: freeman | October 08, 2008 at 10:14 AM

Email is the butter-churning of our day and age, no?

Water/plenty of fluids is good. I think attention just has to paid as to how caffeine is meted out.

I also would have accepted "Don't join a cult." (They're a huuuuuuge time drain.)

Posted by: Brent Simon | October 08, 2008 at 07:07 PM

love the list...#18 is my challenge. And the staying up late. Usually both at the same time.

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Posted by: H. | October 10, 2008 at 06:04 PM

Great list. I'll eventually come out of hiding at the end of winter. Maybe. Somehow. If I get around to it.

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Posted by: yustin | October 15, 2008 at 05:27 PM

21. cut yourself some slack: have down time and don't beat yourself up about it (as long as it's the exception, not the rule). slow and steady wins the race.

Posted by: RLewis | October 16, 2008 at 04:50 PM