Comment analog works best (Score 1) 301
In a digital word, the analog solution is best.
1) LISTS LISTS LISTS. Keep a legal pad in front of you, write your current task. If you drift off, look down to remind you of what you were doing.
2) REMINDERS. Post little notes like "shouldn't you be working" all over. Change your desktop background to a photo of your boss shaking his head in disapproval at the time your wasting on the corporate dime. Rig up a series of electrodes that zap you when you have been away from your work for too long etc.
3) REWARDS. Log your "f@c% off" time using some of the above software. On days when the counter is 0, buy yourself a beer, new TV, or that cute hooker you have always wanted. Conversely on days when the timer is over 50%, ask your cube mate to dump battery acid down the front of your pants....works like a charm.
Hope these solutions can help. I too am dismayed at some of the folk on here, criticizing this totally understandable and legitimate problem. If a guy with one arm posted here and asked for a tech solution to help him type, you wouldn't say "use both hands dumbass!" cuz that would make you a prick. The original poster could have a real mental/chemical/biological problem that our wonderful community could help solve, and some of you devolve into harassment and name-calling, SHAME. Just because you all can resist the temptation of watching the latest harlem shake video, doesnt mean we all were raised to be such tight wads!
Sorry for the rant, got to get back to work!!!!