Today during one of my slacking off at work sessions, I discovered an article on Gamasutra entitled "The Power of Partial Telecommuting" (http://gamasutra.com/features/20060727/higgins_01.shtml). This article was quite inspiring and made me realize that I fit into the "Slacker" category, and the few times that I have Telecommuted, that's what I did. I really want to get into the mentality of get shit done at work, be flexible with my work and work around my family life, but still have time to push hard for completion.
And I'm completely serious... I need to shape up at work. If you haven't noticed, my last posts have been rather degrading toward my current job. But in talking with April, she made me realize that I need to work hard at what I'm doing right now, whether I like it or not. I'm surprised I didn't see this before, but talking through things like this with April just help me realize and see my own faults. If I take her for example, she's such a dedicated worker, she puts so much time into her work and paper writing and gets shit done. And I mean, gets it done well. She concentrates on the task at hand, devotes a lot of time to completing it and getting it done right and has time left over to spare!
Since I've always been a procrastinator, I never looked at the problems I need to solved until just before they are due to be completed. What this leaves me with is a lot of time screwing off, a little time doing work and actually improving my skills, and a shitty product at the end of it all that just barely scrapes by. This has got to stop.
So starting today, I am going to set some goals for myself. I'm going to close my stat counter windows [done.], my IGDA forum posts [done.], remove my IE shortcut from my taskbar [done.], open up my to do list for my current project (closing my IE shortcut made that harder, haha) [done.], drink some more coffee [done.], and start hammering away at this code. I want to improve my coding efficiency (even though I'm just writing reports) and get this out of the way so I can move on to documentation and feel good about the release on Tuesday.
Fingers crossed, here we go!
And I'm completely serious... I need to shape up at work. If you haven't noticed, my last posts have been rather degrading toward my current job. But in talking with April, she made me realize that I need to work hard at what I'm doing right now, whether I like it or not. I'm surprised I didn't see this before, but talking through things like this with April just help me realize and see my own faults. If I take her for example, she's such a dedicated worker, she puts so much time into her work and paper writing and gets shit done. And I mean, gets it done well. She concentrates on the task at hand, devotes a lot of time to completing it and getting it done right and has time left over to spare!
Since I've always been a procrastinator, I never looked at the problems I need to solved until just before they are due to be completed. What this leaves me with is a lot of time screwing off, a little time doing work and actually improving my skills, and a shitty product at the end of it all that just barely scrapes by. This has got to stop.
So starting today, I am going to set some goals for myself. I'm going to close my stat counter windows [done.], my IGDA forum posts [done.], remove my IE shortcut from my taskbar [done.], open up my to do list for my current project (closing my IE shortcut made that harder, haha) [done.], drink some more coffee [done.], and start hammering away at this code. I want to improve my coding efficiency (even though I'm just writing reports) and get this out of the way so I can move on to documentation and feel good about the release on Tuesday.
Fingers crossed, here we go!
How are those goals working out for you? Hehe. I love you babes. Your blog entries are so you....and I love YOU! Muah! <3 April
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April Starner |
10:35 AM