Diligence Is For Lazy People

I wrote yesterday’s post almost a full day in advance, which hadn’t happened before in the (admittedly short) history of this blog. It felt really nice when my daily 9am writing reminder went off to simply click “Publish” and get on with my day, instead of hitting snooze and hoping I get back to it later.

It brought to mind my sophomore year of college, where I learned the value of discipline. My fiancée was at a school ten hours away, and I had a randomly assigned roommate with whom I had nothing in common (and despite his pedestrian physical appearance managed to have three simultaneous girlfriends for most the year, but that’s a different story). I also had a class schedule that finished by 2pm every day.

Since I had little reason to get back to my lonely little dorm room so early in the day, I got in the habit of hanging out in the library studying until dinner. I quickly discovered that this routine completely freed my evenings and weekends of schoolwork. And that was awesome. I wasted gobs of time playing video games during those hours, and didn’t feel the slightest bit bad about it, because my work was done.