{"id":309,"date":"2009-02-19T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T20:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2009-02-19T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T20:30:16","slug":"need-some-help-with-self-control-try-leechblock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/19\/need-some-help-with-self-control-try-leechblock\/","title":{"rendered":"Need Some Help with Self-Control? Try Leechblock"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend of mine on LJ1<\/sup> turned me on to a Firefox plugin of epic usefulness – Leechblock<\/a>.\u00a0 It prevents you from accessing sites that, in your judgement, are timewasters during specified periods of time.\u00a0 It’s not like a nanny software that blocks sites forever, but gives you the option of limiting time on a specific site or banning those sites from being accessed during certain hours.\u00a0 If you’re really worried about self control, you can also choose to set it to prevent you from accessing options until the banned time is over.<\/p>\n

Now part of my job really kind of is<\/em> to screw around on the net.\u00a0 Most of my clients want me to write for the web, so I have to be aware of web trends, understand what makes a good blog post or not, and other things of that nature.\u00a0 Not only that, but I do use the Internet for research.2<\/sup> However, when you’ve hit refresh for the fiftieth time in an hour on Livejournal, are grinding your teeth at the stupidity Facebook’s latest TOS fiasco, or have posted that you’re clipping your toenails on Twitter, things have gone a bit far.<\/p>\n

I consider myself reasonably self-disciplined.\u00a0 I meet deadlines.\u00a0 I finish my to-do list for work.\u00a0 I manage to scrounge enough money to keep me from having to get a “real job” and that really does take some self-motivation.\u00a0 But I’m going to try an experiment.\u00a0 For the next week, I’m going to block some sites from my browser during office hours3<\/sup> with an hour break for lunch and see what it does to my productivity and client base.<\/p>\n

I’m guessin’ we’re gonna see some positive results.\u00a0 Whatcha think?<\/p>\n

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1<\/sup> (Thanks sheelangig!)
\n2<\/sup>You’d be amazed at how inexpensive a single PDF download of an article from a technical or medical journal can be sometimes!
\n3<\/sup> 6:30-3:30 is usual for me to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend of mine on LJ1 turned me on to a Firefox plugin of epic usefulness – Leechblock.\u00a0 It prevents you from accessing sites that, in your judgement, are timewasters during specified periods of time.\u00a0 It’s not like a nanny software that blocks sites forever, but gives you the option of limiting time on a … <\/p>\n

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