{"id":13585,"date":"2010-11-10T23:38:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13585"},"modified":"2010-11-11T06:25:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T13:25:23","slug":"im-a-time-waster-how-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13585\/im-a-time-waster-how-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m a time-waster. How about you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the point: My name is Greg Swann, and I am a time-waster. My next closing is Wednesday, November 17th, 2010.<\/p>\n

It’s news that is my special poison, a quick check of major news and opinion sites several times a day. Stir that in with email, some of it work, some of it work-ish,<\/em> some of it just more time-wasting. And blend all of that with lots of tiny little brief chores done for clients at various stages of “the process.”<\/p>\n

That’s a half-productive day. I start at six, finish at six or nine or one — the next day. And if I spin in place like that all day, I can get half as much done as I should have.<\/p>\n

It’s not that I’m working from home. I’ve worked from home for almost twenty years, and I’ve always been able to get a lot done when I need to. <\/p>\n

And it’s not the internet as such — duh! I’ve worked on the internet for most of my life.<\/p>\n

And I’m not even really a bad, bad boy. It’s just checking this for a minute and that other thing for a couple more, all while taking care of business, yes-sir-ee-boss. By the end of the hour, I’ve rarely wasted more than 20 minutes, so what’s the beef?<\/p>\n

The beef would be the stuff that’s missing between these two slices of bread, as it turns out.<\/p>\n

I don’t care for the example being set by prominent members of the RE.net on social media sites, but I also don’t care if their seemingly-constant TwitBooking helps or hurts them.<\/p>\n

This is what I care about: Hundreds and thousands of ordinary working stiffs are mimicking those poor examples, in the mistaken belief that scrupulously documenting every burp and bowel movement will make them successful.<\/p>\n

But, from my own corpus: “Egovangelist, motivate thyself!”<\/em> It’s all one thing, and the way to help other people get good at getting things right is to get good at getting things right. I love to think of myself as a hugely productive being, and the job that matters most to me is not scolding other people for being Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the point: My name is Greg Swann, and I am a time-waster. My next closing is Wednesday, November 17th, 2010. It’s news that is my special poison, a quick check of major news and opinion sites several times a day. 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