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I recently reported on my obsessive compulsive behavior and how I found Psychology Today. Thats where I caught OCD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

See http://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/ocd.htm

Fortunately I didnt catch the extreme related disease of trichotillomania which is "the repeated urge to pull out scalp hair, eyelashes, eyebrows or other body hair." Such an urge would be futile for me as I am as bald as Mount Baldy in the Uinta Mountains of Utah.

Anyway, Ive saved one heck of a lot of time since I read the article on OCD at the stated reference. Here are some examples of daily time savings:

Not checking if I still have my car keys in my pocket while shopping: 3 minutes

Not paying attention to the thought I wish I were a millionaire: 7 minutes

Not checking again and again if the front, back, and garage doors are locked: 12 minutes

Paying no attention to the urge to draw up grandiose plans: 17 minutes

Ignoring the urge to write down 17 new article ideas: 10 minutes

Not checking to see if my wallet is still in my pocket: 6 minutes

Ignoring the thought that I sold Microsoft too soon on seven occasions: 4 minutes

Not thinking about my lack of expertise at option trading: 3 minutes

Not designing another direct mail get-rich scheme: 25 minutes

Not reading every word in junk mail: 17 minutes

Lets see that is 104 minutes a day or almost two hours. Oh, I forgot a couple:

Not trying to memorize ? to 50 decimal places: 12 minutes

Not starting a new novel: 4 minutes

Now that makes 120 minutes or 2 hours a day.

I think we can increase these time savings. Lets see

Wait! My wife told me to "Get off of it!"

Thanks, Psychology Today!

John T Jones, Ph.D.

Jones was a vice president of a Fortune 500 company subsidiary having the major responsibility for research and development and certain engineering functions. After he retired, he became editor of an international trade magazine. Jones is Executive Representative of IWS, sellers of Tyler Hicks wealth-success books and kits. He is a direct mail and mail order marketer and operates a dozen websites.

He has written three technical books, four novels (Bull, Revenge on the Mogollon Rim, Bone China, and In No Way Guilty), and many published papers on business, marketing, engineering and other topics. Details on many of these topics can be found at his personal web site.

Jones is a hack poet and amateur landscape painter. He lives in Idaho with his wife of 52 years. He has five children, three in medicine, a lawyer, and a portrait artist. The Jones? have thirty-two talented grandchildren (many with special musical talent and skills), and one great grand child.

Jones is a prolific writer which started when he was an engineering professor at Iowa State University (Go Cyclones!). He doesn?t know how to stop.