Holidays, Productivity and Profit
Holidays are always a bit of a disaster for me. Rather than being a liberating relief, filled with hours of lunch and afternoon tea with estranged friends which is often the dream during semester - I find it a rather debilitating malaise. Without any imperative to do anything, I don't do anything. I stay up all night doing nothing, wake up late and procrastinate further. The highlight of the day is going around the corner to fetch lunch, followed by another nap.
I'm convinced the two conditions for productivity are social obligation (the embarrassment of doing nothing or expectation of friends and partners) and having something less interesting to do ("aw I should clean but I've just got to finish this invoice!, and then when I'm done I'd better finish editing that work!").
In the absence of either or both these conditions I just spend my morning dancing around the loungeroom to Simon and Garfunkel's "Keep the Customer Satisfied".
And on that point, due to Elsa's imploration - our experiment in small business came to a profitable conclusion!
I'm convinced the two conditions for productivity are social obligation (the embarrassment of doing nothing or expectation of friends and partners) and having something less interesting to do ("aw I should clean but I've just got to finish this invoice!, and then when I'm done I'd better finish editing that work!").
In the absence of either or both these conditions I just spend my morning dancing around the loungeroom to Simon and Garfunkel's "Keep the Customer Satisfied".
And on that point, due to Elsa's imploration - our experiment in small business came to a profitable conclusion!