Become a Champion Time Waster Just Like Me

WARNING – If you have no self control and are easily distracted do not read the following post.

Self discipline has never been one of my strong points and I’m not sure that bodes well considering that in starting in December the internet will be my only source of income. In an effort to try and see how much time I waste I’ve compiled a list of the usual suspects. I’ve really got to do something about my wandering mind because I don’t think checking stats, posting to Facebook and commenting on blogs pays very well.

The culprits:

• Google Adsense – Back when I was earning $0.40 per day I checked Adsense a million times a day. Now that I’m making more, it’s up to about a zillion.
• Google Analytics – I don’t understand most of the stats this thing spews forth but I like looking at the pretty graphs.
• Email – I am hooked on checking my email and having a whole load of different accounts really doesn’t do me any favours.
• Affiliate Sales Stats – I’ve got about 6 different affiliate programs going at the moment with only one really earning me any money. I still log into all of them a few times a day with my fingers crossed that I’ve made some massive sales. I like to live in hope.
• Blogs – I only really like blogs about blogging or travel but that still leaves plenty of choice and I’ve been discovering lots of little gems over the past few weeks to provide me with plenty of distractions.
• Forums – Before my discovery of blogs I would do the rounds on a handful of travel and webmaster forums learning a few things here and there but mostly just avoiding doing any work.
• Facebook – Crackbook. Need I say more?
• MyBlogLog – Clicking on little pictures is fun.
• 103 Bees – This cool little gadget lets me know, in minute details, what search terms people are using to find my websites. Why I need to know this or what I can do with this information I do not know.
• Technorati – I haven’t quite figured this one out yet but it looks primed to become another top tool in my quest to waste time.
• Feedburner – This is a new one and had been serving as a distraction 473 times per day but now I feel really dumb because I think it’s only updated daily proving that I truly am a master time waster.

I need to come up with some kind of plan to keep myself away from these little goodies because at the moment I think I’m wasting some serious amounts of time. Are there 12 step programs to ween me off of these highly addictive distractions?