things to do when you're supposed to be starting a business

1. Facebook: remarkably effective time-wasting/procrastinating tool. Highly recommended if one is attempting to stall both their productivity and/or prolong their past, their present or both. Why work when you can see what someone you haven't seen since grade 3 is up to these days? Of course you can always plan an event, in which case you can focus only on what "is to come", completely avoiding the here and now. Right. So that would also make Facebook versatile. Wow the list of attributes just grows and grows.
2. Go to the bank: why bank online when you can stand in line for 20 minutes with a hunched-over senior using a plastic bag instead of a wallet (true story, and it happened today)?
3. Subscribe to newsletters that get emailed daily to your inbox. Let the vehicle for procrastination come to you. Save energy. Forward any interesting/relevant information to your friends and/or family.
4. Pick up the phone every time it rings - especially when call display tells you it's your friend who keeps you on the phone for 30 minutes minimum.
5. Go to neighbourhood book giant. Peruse the magazine section. Don't limit yourself to the subjects that you're interested in. Check out everything, just in case you find something "relevant" in an unforeseen area. After using their in-store search screens, walk over to your local independent bookseller and actually buy the thing you're looking for there instead.
6. Start a random blog, abandon it for a month or more and then if you're really pressed for things to distract you from what you need to do, write something, anything, to stop you from writing that business plan that you need to write.
7. When you get to the bottom of your list, add one more point, because "6" is a funny number and "7" is your favourite.