recipe for motivation

i have found the best way to get work done is to make yourself as busy as possible. if i minimize free time, i maximize work done. last weekend we went to c'ville. this week I went to DC and we will do a lot of shopping and maybe catch a movie. sounds like i have a lot of leisure time? exactly the opposite is true.

it has been a busy 2 weeks. i had one paper on the Tamil Tigers due, exams to grade, and i have to write two papers this weekend. one on whether or not to legalize/decriminalize prostitution, and the other on performance budgeting.

oh, and we are leaving for india next weekend. we have to do some more shopping. we spent about 3 hours in walmart looking at baby clothes for out nieces in the village.

speaking of wal-mart, you should all check out what THEY were doing during Hurricane katrina while FEMA was sitting around. if i find the link, i'll post.

perhaps the scale of urgency and clear goals has something to do with how efficient we act (we MUST re-open the wal-marts and save our employees; i MUST finish this paper before i get on the plane; we MUST deliver water to the tsunami survivors NOW, etc.)