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I'm a Chronic Yak Shaver
Okay, I admit it. I'm a chronic yak shaver.
You're probably a chronic yak shaver too. Here's how Seth Godin describes it:
Yak Shaving is the last step of a series of steps that occurs when you find something you need to do. "I want to wax the car today."
"Oops, the hose is still broken from the winter. I'll need to buy a new one at Home Depot."
"But Home Depot is on the other side of the Tappan Zee bridge and getting there without my EZPass is miserable because of the tolls."
"But, wait! I could borrow my neighbor's EZPass..."
"Bob won't lend me his EZPass until I return the mooshi pillow my son borrowed, though."
"And we haven't returned it because some of the stuffing fell out and we need to get some yak hair to restuff it."
And the next thing you know, you're at the zoo, shaving a yak, all so you can wax your car.
In fact, I've convinced myself that by writing this post I'll be able to close the window that had Seth's blog open and let me focus on my real task at hand. So much for that.
Posted in on March 06, 2005, 10:19 PM | Permalink
Comments
Here's how to avoid shaving this yak... just add Seth's blog entry to your del.icio.us bookmarks and put it in your perpetual procrastination pile instead.
Posted by: Peter da Silva at March 27, 2005 08:00 AM
