I am working to increase the amount of self-discipline I use everyday. I believe a side effect of practicing self-discipline will eliminate my procrastination habit.

I’ve looked back over my old posts and I see a pattern. However, since I want to start focusing on really turning my life around, I believe I’m going to have to start fresh.

I need a fresh start.

The fresh start isn’t only with this blog.

I have a business I’ve been trying to grow for nearly 10 years but I’ve only seen it stagnate time and again as I’ve gone off track. It’s a business. It’s a hobby. No, it’s a business. No, it’s definitely a hobby… Are you getting the picture? I want to leave my current job, which I’ve managed to trim down to about 12 hours per week, but which I do not enjoy even now. I do not like working for someone. I want to be in control of my own destiny.

Here’s how I plan to conquer self-discipline and procrastination once and for all.

Self-discipline is going to become the cornerstone of my life. I am in the process of laying the groundwork by keeping a daily schedule.

I know schedules haven’t worked well for me in the past, since I have always tended to over-complicate them and then burn out after which I end up floundering around for a while, sometimes to the good, sometimes to the bad.

My intent is to follow a basic daily schedule for the rest of my life.

I’ve developed a thorough but highly flexible schedule. The key is going to be the flexibility, because this isn’t your average flexibility I’m talking about. It’s flexible, but only in the event of a true emergency or a change that’s caused by something completely out of my control. I will only change my schedule after I remind myself that I am practicing self-discipline, and ask myself will this change interfere with that? Will I still feel disciplined at the end of the day?

The reason I’ve developed such a thorough schedule is to prevent me from falling into doing nothing. I seem to have a bad habit of filling up unstructured time with useless minutia and mindless activity that I don’t even like when I stop to think about what I’m doing (TV surfing, internet time wasters, calendar tweaking). I’ve cut off my satellite TV service and installed an antenna. What I am trying to say is that I’m VERY serious about this. I’m ready to stop frittering away my life and make something of it.

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New Directions in Blogging

However, I’ve revisited some of the content, and I do think some of my previous posts had value, so the day has come where I’ve decided to add some of that content back to the site. So if you see something new pop up and it seems kind of like a rerun, maybe you’re right.

I’m not going to specify what’s new and what’s old, since most likely you aren’t going to notice. I mean, it’s been years…. and the site is so small that I doubt any of you have even been here before.

Since this site is about overcoming procrastination, I think it’s important that at some point I do some overcoming! :-)

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(Some of) My old posts are coming back