The Homeless Blogger’s Guide to Procrastination

January 4th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | By Jordan Cooper | View Comments

The following is a guest post by Henri Junttila.

How many times have you sat in front of your computer and stared at that bright, white, evil and blank sheet of virtual paper that is Microsoft Word? Then after a while you get sick of it and try to find something else to do, such as stare at the wall, pet the dog or just do weird stuff with your material possessions (it’s not the stuff you’re thinking about).

This is what I call the homeless blogger. We all have a homeless blogger inside of us. He’s constantly shuffling, looking for that quick-fix of internet heroin (a.k.a Google Analytics and Twitter). Is a homeless blogger automatically an addict, you might ask? The pie charts say yes.

3 Ways to Procrastinate Yourself to True Freedom

There are a lot of tips I could give you, but I’m just going to share a few of them because the key to really successful blogging is learning what’s going on with your inner homeless blogger. While this may sound strange, it is something that the A-list “gurus” don’t admit, except in private ninja, underground meetings.

With that said, here are a few extra secret tips to true homelessness freedom, so don’t share and don’t retweet, because this is where the good stuff begins.

• 1. Stats. Traffic stats, twitter followers, adsense clicks and other stats are the key to procrastination. Those numbers never update, because nobody likes you, but the thrill you get from clicking refresh every 1.6 seconds is amazing.
• 2. Cats. Animals are crucial here, but one of the best ones are cats, because cats are secretly living the exact same lives humans are. The only difference is that they chase mice, we chase money. Tomato, tamato. YouTube is a place for serious education, but somehow videos of cats got up there. Don’t ask me how, some kind of inside job or conspiracy is my guess.
• 3. Blogging reports. You have to stay updated on the same stuff that keeps coming out. Read all of the blogging reports that come out, because they contain useful and important information, such as writing text on your blog. That stuff is impossible to figure out on your own, so cancel everything you’re doing (anything important at least, not the cat stuff) and read the goddamn reports.

The Deep Wrap Up Summary

If you want to be the anti-homeless blogger, you don’t necessarily have to shut down all your distractions. Distractions are a part of our lives. Let’s be honest, we all have ADD and some people have severe mental problems, but that’s okay!

The interwebs makes this all okay. Learn to embrace the distractions. I check my stats all the time. I know people say that after the first 3 months you don’t check your stats, but I check mine even more now and I’ve added YouTube cat videos to the mix. People still call me a machine, because I comment on 108 blogs and I write guest posts like this one in like 3 minutes. I do it all with distractions.

Wake Up Cloud is about helping people improve their lives not only through achieving financial freedom, but also improving their productivity, beliefs and realizing you can live a life full of passion and fulfillment. A new friend, I look forward to reading more of Henri’s self improvement ideas in 2010.