I am working away from home right now and have been all week. Why? My current productivity has sucked. I know, why? Well, I always seem to be finding other things to do. Like organizing my husbands shirts by color and then in graduated shades of that color. My laundry room? Same way. The hangers are all organized by color, if they are for pants or shirts, etc.
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It is definitely not an obsession, but it’s the raging perfectionist bitch in me screaming to come out. She messes everything up. Notice I didn’t say the “F” word. I wanted to. Really freaking bad. There, one “F” word. But, not the really bad one that would make my Grandma blush and my mother proud that her “sailerriffic mouth” has paid off.
Hang on, I am digressing. See, distractions…the downfall of society. It’s that little shiny thing hanging around that is making me like a crazed kitty. Chasing it around like I have been on a 5-day Catnip bender.
Ok. Back to productivity. I have enjoyed working in coffee shops because I don’t have the home distractions and there is human life. Not just the clickity-clackity of my fingers on the keyboard and my annoying neighbor cranking up his bloody tuner car with the aftermarket exhaust. Where are my fricking ruby slippers so I can clickity clack with purpose and make everything magically better?
I do listen to NPR. Don’t look at me in that tone of voice. It’s not nice and your mother warned you that your face would freeze like that if you did it too much. I also listen to jazz. Again, stop those looks.
Maybe I should put on my Metallica concert t-shirt circa 1989, tease my hair, throw on some black eyeliner and pump some metal. It might help. Lord knows I was like a squirrel on crackberries back then. All I needed for focus was a pack of Marlboro Lights, metal and a fist pump in the air. It worked.
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However, I am afraid that people will look at me like I have lost my mind. Plus, I think that many of my friends online and off would auction the photos and make me look like a horses posterior. I am respectable dag nab it.
However, I will share my latest post over at http://lisaframe.wordpress.com on writing and productivity boosting, since there is nothing truly being written that has any merit here.
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Lisa Frame is a under-organized, over-achiever. She's a freelance writer covering tech, travel, business, parenting and food. The need for more "me time" has lead her to search the seven corners of the earth in order to find the ever-elusive lazy streak without success. When she's not living online, she's pestering her husband and son in order to test their breaking point and give them something to discuss with the shrink.
