Comments on: Be Intolerant and Boost Your Productivity

By: Recommended reading for writers - March 2009 | Write for Your Life

Recommended reading for writers - March 2009 | Write for Your Life — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:28:15 +0000

[...] Be Intolerant and Boost Your Productivity | The Renegade Writer The advice here is basically to get rid of all the little pernickety things you need to do first before you sit down to work. It’s something I tend to do, although I thought that meant that I was procrastinating. I just don’t know any more. You decide. [...]

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:02:28 +0000

What a great idea. There are always a million little things that bug me during the day, and when you work as home you see all of them right in front of you. It can be deeply depressing. I think I will give this a try.

By: LindaFormichelli

LindaFormichelli — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:17:32 +0000

Thanks for all your comments! I hope you can bust your tolerations. I love having my list,,,when I’m feeling uninspired I look at it and see what I can strike from the list.

Kevin, my new wallet came today. It’s beautiful, but my new toleration is that it’s too big to fit in my jacket pocket and I hate carrying a purse.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:22:32 +0000

I finally put index cards and a pen next to my bed this morning — #17 on my new tolerations list. Next up: #12, dusting my desk. I never do it, even though it drives me mad to see it while I’m working.

By: Kevin Sandridge

Kevin Sandridge — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:24:49 +0000

Linda – your comment about the change purse reminded me of when I first started traveling to Europe. I spend 3 months living in London while in grad school. The amount of loose change in my pockets after just 2 days of mucking around nearly blew my mind! It soon became a real pain. Then, I noticed coin holders in nearly everyone’s hand as they checked out from the grocery and what not. And me – the silly American – with only my billfold. I went on with my “tolernace” of the bad system I was using for nearly another month until a friend took pity on my and handed me an extra coin holder they had. I’ve used one while traveling abroad ever since. As we don’t have as many larger denomination coins here in the US – it hasn’t been a problem since moving back.

By: Valencia

Valencia — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:02:38 +0000

Great tip! My tolerations seems to appear on cold, rainy (yucky) days – like today. I decided about two hours ago to blow off the day – what better time to work on my list!

By: ‘Pippin’ Breaks the Magic Spell « Mots Justes

‘Pippin’ Breaks the Magic Spell « Mots Justes — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:03:33 +0000

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By: The Writer Mama

The Writer Mama — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:38:03 +0000

It so funny that you are talking about this. I remember you writing about them before and I’ve been totally noticing them. And trust me, they need to get zapped! I’m going to do it. And if I have doubts, I’ll come back and read this. Thanks!

By: LindaFormichelli

LindaFormichelli — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:44:57 +0000

Lori, good for you!

Beth, I think the point of tolerations is that they’re small and you can knock them out quickly with a little focus. All the tolerations I mentioned in the post took me under 15 minutes to kill. You can do them in between writing tasks, or commit to a certain amount of time each day. Good luck!

By: Star

Star — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:35:26 +0000

The word tolerations doesn’t do it for me–but I know what you mean. Could you please get that Rachel woman to quit with the recorded calls. Yes, I am on the No-Call List.