Let me count the ways...
- Reading the New Yorker.
- Facebook.
- RSS blog feed.
- Funny things on the Internet.
- The Internet. Period.
- Singing along to the radio.
- Staring at a blank Word document.
- Staring at a French document I'm supposed to be translating.
- Reading all the novels I'm currently enthralled in.
- Eating yogurt and kettlecorn and fruit and hopefully not too many Reese's.
- Composing a blog post.
How do I deal with procrastination, let me count the ways:
- Standing up and stretching.
- Shutting down the Internet.
- Going for a quick walk.
- Making a to-do list to cross things off of.
- Feeling guilty that I'm not working.
- Doing laundry.
- Spreading out my workweek to fewer daytime hours, more evening and weekend hours. (It still averages 40-45 hours/week, or more.)
- Picking one of those long-term business tasks to work on (mostly marketing and grant applications).
- Composing a blog post.
Good. Now it's time for a walk.