What are you doing reading this?
You probably have something more important to do, somewhere more worthwhile to be, something more pressing to work on.
And you're reading this?
You're distracted. Or you want to be. And doing this -- reading this, now -- enables you, feeds that distraction, offers you momentary escape.
This is not good. It won't do. For you or for me. I don't want to be your excuse, and you really have better things to do. Right now.
So get going. I won't take it against you. Stop reading. Get out there. Come back when you're done. You'll thank me later -- and better appreciate everything else I have to say.
And the next time you feel that urge, that desire for distraction? Think of me. Re-read this post.
Then do what you have to do.
2 comments:
Well said, my friend. I just checked out my Google Analytics and found out that people spend an average of 1 minute 21 seconds on my blog. Given the amount of time that I spend writing, that's a little deflating.
But then, I realized that it's possible that I'm someone's little caffeine fix, or that cigarette people smoke before getting down to actual work. If that's the case, then no thanks. Come back when you're ready to read something good. I'll be waiting. :)
Since you brought it up: mine clock in at around 3 minutes. But when I first started using Google Analytics, what worried me more was my bounce rate.
My thinking now, however, is that the stats are skewed against blogs like ours. If you assume that your readership checks up on your posts with some regularity, they won't be spending much time onsite each time they visit, and once they've read whatever's new they'll quickly move along.
Of course this is neither here nor there. =)
(I will also say, though, that I think I was much happier before I got to monitor my traffic...)
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