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Yay!!! I just finished the sales leads!!! And as I write this a new game for my ipod is being downloaded from Itunes. The PSP helped get me over the biggest hump.Sadly, I seem to be a lot more motivated by toys and fun stuff than by the pride of a job well done or even a good work ethic… The sales leads completion cost me about $120.00 for the PSP, shipping, a song download or two, and finally a five dollar ipod game to give me the perseverance for the last little while… However I will enjoy my new toys:) Hopefully this won’t become a habit as my primary life’s goal right now is to become financially independent however my other big goal is to have a lot of fun in life and while the two do seem to be somewhat exclusive of the other, I want to become financially independent so I can spend lots of time doing fun things I enjoy. So along the way I am also doing fun things I enjoy.

So what did I learn from this experience? First of all, that it is possible for me not to enjoy doing things in Excel. Secondly, if it is a choice between entering sales leads and brushing my teeth I will actually brush my teeth. Thirdly, putting off certain fun stuff until a big seemingly endless task is done just causes me to do semi boring and unimportant stuff while I procrastinate doing the long boring job so that nothing I want to accomplish or need to accomplish gets done.

And lastly, breaking a job down into smaller quantities helps! A LOT! Just counting how many sales leads I had to go helped change what was a like a looming black cloud of doom into something quantifiable that could be changed into little puffs of unpleasantness. Or something like that. Having smaller quantities that can be measured is very nice. Also, having a deadline, real or imaginary, also helps. Like knowing that somebody else could hit the buy it now on that beautiful silver PSP!!! When something you aren’t excited about is “due whenever” it generally does get put to back of the list when there are other fun things to do.

And my new game has just finished downloading from Itunes so I am going to sync my Ipod then be quite busy for a while:)