How to avoid working for a living

How to avoid working for a living

I think this year has made me an expert at avoiding work. A year ago Feb. I had a heart operation, which drained me for several months, even though it wasn’t major surgery. Then, my website www.inspiredauthor.com was hacked in April. Last fall I became sick, and that slowed me down. Just before Christmas I tore my rotator cuff. Then in March of this year the flu developed into a serious ear infection, which grew worse until it turned into a case of pneumonia.

In all this time I have not been able to get 1/3 of the work I normally get done. The only thing that has grown successfully over the last year is the balance of my debts. The two websites that Grace Publishing was suppose to have online in January, authorsconnection.com and www.shop-huron.com, are just going online now.

I haven’t even been able to find enough content to make these websites attractive to search engines. But still, I am having a hard time finding the shark like determination I use to have. I work a few hours, and then crash. I am becoming a professional procrastinator.

So, what should I do? Wait until I am indebt enough that I need to take a second job? Wait until I am so lazy that I am unemployable?

Last night I taught a course on business management. I couldn’t believe I was trying to motivate other people, when I have been unable to motivate myself. Still, I know what to do, so I could tell the students what to do, I am just unable to shake my lethargy and get myself back on track.

I have even taken up computer video games – as a source of stress relief, of course. It is a great way to waste 3 hours of your day. The impending waves of guilt are even dulled as you convince yourself that you are still in the office. I can even console myself with the truth that many well paid professionals waste time every day instead of working.

I can even convince myself to stop working early, and spend time with my family. Which is a good thing, as long as I don’t keep stopping when they get home from school and spend the evening watching movies and playing games with them. (At least I have the fortitude needed to get THEM to do their homework.)

However, I know, deep in my gut, that the entrepreneur in my will die if I don’t get off my butt and fight back. Even now, at this very moment, I am procrastinating. This blog gave me a great excuse to stop publishing web pages to the net, and do something that doesn’t create an income.

So, it is easy to avoid working for a living… just do things which do not earn an income. The problem is, I haven’t learned how to get paid for it.

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