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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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 I do agree with all...Submitted by sabreuse on October 27, 2005 - 7:44am.
I do agree with all that, and was a little more flippant than I needed to be, but I'll stick to the more serious point that neither productivity nor value are as clear as they may seem when you put them in cash terms. Money -- or rather, the convenient mental abstraction of my time as represented by $X/hr -- is certainly a motivation to get things done. But the possibility of freeing up the time to do other things, even if they're as seemingly valueless as goofing around online, can be just as much of a factor. » POSTED IN:
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