The Most Productive Lazy Woman You Will Ever Meet

The Most Productive Lazy Woman You Will Ever Meet

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I have been feeling lazy even though I know I have been super productive.  What led to this?  Probably several things.  I recently lost my full time job and have now started working part time in a field I used to feel was beneath me (which now I realize was completely stupid).  I am over heated, and I slept in today.   I feel like I am failing my son and my husband by not being able to provide like I used too.  I may be battling depression but, honestly I'm not sure. I may just be feeling sorry for myself.

So consequently, I have decided to record things to make me feel more productive.  The first thing I did was make myself a plan.  I game myself a list of things to do on days I am not actually working.

1) apply for a full time job:

This may seem seem self explanatory but I really have trouble jumping back into things after I feel I have failed.  I am focusing on a different career path using skills that I already have.  I am also keeping track of where I applied, what position I applied for, and what day I did.  I also record if I had an interview and how I felt it went.  It's nice to open my job search file and see all these nice neat lines of data that physically show me I am not slacking off.

2)  explore an alternative sources of income:

I was reading my list out loud to my mother and she freaked out (I think she was thinking I was thinking about doing something illegal, which is far from the truth).  Things that count towards this is posting things on Ebay, donating plasma, editing my novels, researching publishing, and researching free-lance work.  

3) clean house a bit:

It doesn't matter if all I do is a bit of laundry, or wash up the ever mounting pile of dishes.  Looking around and seeing something clean and shiny lets me know I did something.

4) kiss my son and my husband and tell them I love them:

And they let me know that they love me.

The second thing that has been helping me feel productive is Pinterest.  Which I know seems counter-intuitive.  For many people Pinterest is an endless time sink of recipes never made, crafts never completed, fancy photos of people doing exercises we know we will never do.  I think what got me using Pinterest more productively is realizing how easy it is to look up stuff I already pinned.  What was that recipe for high-altitude pop-overs, oh yeah I pinned it.  I actually started a separate board for recipes I use a lot, I sorted some crafts into seasonal boards, I even created a board for books I have in a pile that I want to read, and then move them off that board once they are read.  

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So what exactly did I do today to be productive?  I applied to two jobs.  I made a recipe for breakfast that I found on Pinterest.  I did lots of dishes (the sink filled up over the weekend while both me and my husband worked ourselves into exhaustion).  I did lots of heavy snuggling with my son and my husband.  And I designed a logo and business cards for my husband's chainmail business.  And finally I wrote this out to prove to myself that I wasn't being lazy.