Coffee For Your Soul

*It wasn’t but a few days that I read through Oleg Mokhov’s  Productive Pooping that I realized that he too was a genius. He proposes getting important work done during your time in the restroom. I propose doing routine tasks so you have no incentive to do them later.

In this modern world, almost everyone has Facebook, e-mail, fantasy football. Because of procrastination, these things can often be imbued with an addictive qualities. When you realize that you just spent a few hours in Facebook purgatory procrastinating, you feel kind of odd.

You can’t lie and delude yourself to thinking these tasks aren’t fun. They are, in moderate quantities… which is why I propose a path of procrastination-killing pooping.

The basic premise is this: confine your e-mail, facebook, etc. time to the loo. It’s multitasking but it’s good multitasking. What this does is force you to only focus on the essential things and not let procrastination pull you solely toward the minutiae. You can’t sit on the toilet for ever, you know.

I find a laptop works best for this. I’m sure an iPhone or Blackberry would be fine too. It takes some getting used to, but it definitely increases the enjoyment of one’s life and the enjoyment of these activities.

For example, I’m writing this post right now [from the John,] after spending some time browsing Facebook, my favorite blogs, and checking my e-mail. I don’t plan to engage in these activities the rest of the day.

So start today, limit yourself to the loo!