I spend a great deal of my free time reading. I love books, but blogs have really become an obsession. I have all kinds of Google alerts that now tell me when key words are hit and send me all kinds of blogs to read. I have a well-defined long list of blogs I read almost everyday and at any given time you can find me giving my two cents around the blogosphere. (If you write your own blogs – please send me their locations – I’d love to read them too)
Recently – in emails, Google alerts, others blogs and all over the internet I have run into a very disturbing new trend the To-Don’t list (I do not know how new it is – but I have really started to see this in droves now – so maybe that is why I am realizing it?) Now here is the ultimate in stupid ideas, wastes of time, procrastination, negativity and ass-backward thinking. I wonder – was I clear on my opinions on the to-don’t list yet, because I do have harsher words for its uselessness but will refrain – I am a PG-13 blog.
Who comes up with these things? Do the leaders of Procrasti-NATION stay up all night with nothing better to do but think up sneaky plans to lure our hardworking people astray? Do the leaders of Procrasti-NATION have an army of mindless bots that they send out at night and infiltrate the internet with another series of useless weapons they can fire upon us? C’mon now? To-Don’t Lists? I know none of you are falling for this assault on your common sense and quick-thinking ability to weed out the crap in all situations… right?
The very use of the word don’t should have had you thinking there was an issue with this concept, but then again – these drones from Procrasti-NATION are not stupid in their sneaky ways, imagine when they come around and use their creativity for a positive use! They want to lead you away from the positive and the productive side of your lives, the side of your life where you work hard and play hard and enjoy all parts of your days, and draw you to the other side, the negative world. No reason to go there – just the mere mention of that gets the members of Procrasti-NATION all warm and fuzzy inside. We work on the positive side; the side that allows you to create and consume all that is positive – to share the wealth of your positive nature and to absorb the positive that others will bestow upon you.
So I say to you – who may have been fooled (though only temporarily, of course) tear up those to-don’t lists – because the only Item that should ever be on one is the TO-DON’T LIST itself!
April 16th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
p.s. you need to get a “universal avatar” so you show up in the pics on peoples comments pages. Find something that you love and never change it. Thanks for stopping by earlier
May 9th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Benny,
Good for you! I was quite pleased with your advice to tear up the “To-Don’t” lists of the psychic vampires who make up the “procrasti-NATION”. For the most part, I lump them all together under the rubric “Champagne Socialists” as they personally do not practice what they preach.
Amiably,
Sam Sotiropoulos