What is "Faffing?"
I am going to be writing articles again every other week now for Lifehack.org, one of the leading productivity blogs (over 68,000 subscribers!). (See the lower left sidebar of our blog's home page for a complete list of my previous Lifehack articles.)
Today on Lifehack I saw an article called "5 Ways to Get Out of Faffing Mode." What is faffing? According to Urban Dictionary, it means to waste time doing stupid things that are not necessary. The author of this article, Steven Aitchison, says it's "the art of doing something without achieving anything." Like checking your e-mail too many times? Hmm? Anyone relate?
Steven recommends that you get clear on your outcome and give yourself rewards... read more here. I have found it very interesting to use Rescue Time to monitor my computer usage, which has REALLY cut down on my own faffing! (See my previous post, "Honesty Check! How Do You REALLY Spend Your Time?"
Are you faffing RIGHT NOW? (LOL!)
Faffing is a new word to me. I have always used 'dinking around'. I think I am busy and then I wonder what on earth I have gotten done. I signed up for Rescue Time to see if I can accomplish more in a day as I would like more hours in my day but that isn't going to happen.
Posted by: Marilyn | April 04, 2008 at 07:13 PM
Look forward to reading you on lifehack, right up your alley!
Posted by: Megan @ Disorder2Order | April 21, 2008 at 02:46 PM
Is faffing a little like tweeting on twitter? check out this recent blog post. The question is, why tweet?
http://christinekane.com/blog/to-tweet-or-not-to-tweet/
Posted by: allison carter | May 09, 2008 at 09:19 PM