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Motivation: count the money
gilest | Oct 26 2005
I'm one of the laziest people I know. And I procrastinate a lot. Today I tried something new, and it seemed to work. I counted up how much money I'd earned. Yeah, sounds dumb, sounds obvious; but it's not something I've been in the habit of doing before. I'm a freelance writer and some days earn me more than others. But today I made a point of keeping a mental tally of how much money the work I'd done will have brought in (once all the invoices have been sent, paid, and banked). At the end of the day I walked out of the house feeling somewhat satisfied that a Good Day's Work had been done. 12 Comments
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 Take your annual income, knock...Submitted by stevecooper on October 27, 2005 - 6:21am.
Take your annual income, knock off the thousands digits, and divide by two; this is roughly the value of your attention for one hour. So ?30,000/year becomes ?15/hr. Then ask, "is what I'm doing at the moment worth that much?" Is fiddling with the shading on those icons worth ?7.50 for 30 minutes work? Would you pay ?15 to spend an hour reading blogs every day? etc. » POSTED IN:
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