Deus Vult

1. Walk around your neighborhood, take digital pictures of your ten favorite homes, and go home and create a slide show.

2. Guess the driving distance from your house to the homes of each of your friends and relatives; then get in your car and check your accuracy.

3. Make a list of all the household items you regularly use. Find the store that, on average, is the least expensive source.

4. Pretend you’re a tour guide and take yourself around your city.

5. Make a list of your ten favorite books and visit every library in your area until you’ve reread the first chapter of each one.

6. VIsit your favorite breakfast, lunch, and dinner restaurants and write a review of each.

7. Transcribe the lyrics of your favorite songs without consulting the internet.

8. Visit every neighbor on your block and get recommendations for the best gardener, bottled water company, and handyman.

9. Compare and contrast the two museums closest to where you live.

10. Start a matchbook collection by visiting every bar in town.

Procrastination is the critically important process of allowing your brain to breathe.

The longer you put something off, the greater the chance you’ll forget what it was you had to do.

1. I’ll get around to it soon.

2. That looks about right.

3. Take it easy.

4. Life’s short; smell the roses.

5. Well, we’ll just see what happens.

6. You never know.

7. Somehow it all works out in the end.

8. It’s out of our hands now.

9. Don’t worry; be happy.

10. Stuff happens.

A great philosopher once said: What’s done is done; what’s not done will eventually be done unless it doesn’t get done.

1. Spin in your chair until you’re too dizzy to work and need to lie down

2. Affix a dartboard to your computer monitor, back your chair up ten paces, and fire away.

3. Put your feet up on the desk and call a long-winded friend.

4. Create a different music playlist for each day of the week.

5. Sort through your digital photographs in search of the perfect screensaver.

6. Search through an office supply catalog for supplies you might need one day.

7. Contemplate creating a separate workspace in your office for brainstorming.

8. Investigate the perfect air freshener scent to create a soothing environment.

9. Set up a miniature golf course on your desk using marbles for golf balls and a pencil cup holder for each hole.

10. Implement a lengthy daily regimen of chair exercises.

If you’re going to have a to-do list, it’s only fair that you also have a to-delay list.

The lower your expectations, the less likelihood your procrastination will affect your productivity.

When you’ve fallen behind, the only way to catch up is to cross difficult tasks off your list.

Don’t sweat the small stuff–just don’t do any of it.