by Asim Jalis
I have been using Rico Medellin's technique to turn work into
play. I bought a stopwatch from Fred Meyer. To pay bill I timed
how long it took me to pay each bill. The first one took 6:32
minutes. With some focus I was able to bring this down to 4:25,
which is my current record. In one case I had to call up Verizon
to verify the amount. I stopped the watch so that the phone call
didn't mess up my score.
Normally I get exhausted after paying two or three bills and put
off the non-urgent ones till the next day. With the stopwatch I
was craving to repeat the process again and again, to see if I
could improve it. And I actually ended up doing all 11 bills in
one shot.
