"Don't waste time."<p>You know what I finally did? I installed this cool little Firefox plugin called "Leechblock". I set it up so that I can only visit Hacker News, Digg, Reddit and all other time consuming websites between 8am-9am, noon - 1pm, and 5:30pm on, Monday through Friday
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476</a><p>I have a tendency to read one article which leads to another article which leads me to look something up on Wikipedia which leads me to tell my co-workers about my useless fact finding mission.<p>Not my browsing habits are restricted to very specific windows and it's really helped productivity wise.<p>Of course, I could always fire up Sarfari if I really needed to, but I just need to block out that temptation for now.
8 hour work days go against my natural time clock. I got my boss to agree to let me work when Im ready (around 9.30am and get off when Im ready 3-5pm) ... and it has been mutually beneficial
"Don't waste time" -- good luck with that one! Might as well rewrite this how-to as "just do it, you lazy bums!"<p>"How to make a million dollars: 1. Work diligently at something that will make you a million dollars. 2. Just buy a winning lottery ticket."<p>Admonishments regarding discipline are fairly useless without instruction on how to go about doing so, which is obviously needed if you have to advise someone to be disciplined -- if they already knew how to do it they wouldn't need your how-to.