GTTFD with Henry Rollins…
Is David Allen’s Getting Things Done too long winded and complicated for you? Do you find yourself spending hours on sites like Lifehacker instead of simply getting the fuck on with the things that need doing? Do you have a healthy respect for (and fear) of aging punk rock icons? Then do I have a time management system for you:
GTTFD with Henry Rollins is a simple way to get things the fuck done.
Step 1.
Find a picture of Henry Rollins looking angry (this is very easy)
Step 2.
Print and cut out the picture of Henry Rollins looking angry.
Step 3.
Keep the picture of Henry Rollins looking angry with you at all times.
And that’s it.
Henry is a guy who gets things the fuck done. He sings, he writes, he acts, he tours, he hosts TV shows, he goes to war zones, he lifts very heavy things… In fact he NEVER FUCKING STOPS. If there’s ever a Romero style undead uprising then the Rollins zombie will be easy to spot. He’ll be the one making like a Zack Snyder deadite while the rest of us lumber around the wrong way on the escalators.
Every single second of every single day he gets things the fuck done. And he HATES people who don’t.
So the next time you feel tempted to hack your moleskine or reorganise the 43 folders that represent your life simply take out the picture of Henry looking angry and think to yourself What Would Henry Rollins Do?
The odds are he’d scream at you first, then slam your head in the wall for being a pussy, and then release the whole thing as a spoken word CD.
Avoid his wrath by following his example and there’s a lot less bullshit to wade through.
If your comic mojo outweighs your punk mojo this also works with a picture of Warren Ellis.
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April 11th, 2007 at 2:56 am
Holy crap! This is so amazingly on the nose.
The Warren Ellis bit is perfect. Any time I need to be shamed because of my poor productivity I simply think of Warren and I know I’m not living up to my potential. The man is a frickin machine.
JDC
April 11th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
>>If your comic mojo outweighs your punk mojo this also works with a >>picture of Warren Ellis.
That was a brilliant post, but that last sentence was sublime.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:54 am
Sir,
you have changed my life forever.
With the bitch-slapping guardian angels of insomnia, Henry Rollins and Warren Ellis, watching over me I shall never have the courage to slack off again!
April 17th, 2007 at 6:06 am
This is so true. I’m such a procrastinator of the worst kind. I *think* it was in Get in the Van, but didn’t he have a motto of “Fuck Shit Up” or something…I’ve actually been doing some dedicated working out for about 5 months now, gained almost 30 lbs in that time. Each time I feel I can’t do something in the gym, I always think of “Fuck Shit Up” and it does the trick each time. Heh.
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May 8th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Oh wee. A privileged white guy saying ‘Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.’ Wow. Color me floored.
Look. If Henry’s mommy could afford military school, odds are she could afford lots of other stuff too.
It’s easy to ‘Get Stuff Done’ when you’ve got access. But if you’re working two dead-end jobs just to pay your rent. Not so much.
May 8th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Nice…Warren Ellis AND Henry Rollins motivating you…not to mention Henry Rollins is HAWT(in a big daddy sorta way)!!! If this works for you, that’s great…but if you need this kind of motivation to get things done in your life, what you should really be asking yourself is: What’s it like to live your life without a backbone? Get one and finally live for once. Otherwise, Henry Rollins really needs to pummel you into the dirt Warren Ellis style…and believe me, there will be nothing memorable of you left for Henry to do a spoken word CD about you because you’ll be that insignificant. So how do you truly want to live your life besides having an angry picture of hawt daddy Henry Rollins to motivate you?
May 12th, 2007 at 9:17 am
Fuckin genius.
I salute.
May 12th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Lame, Datawhore.
Get Stuff Done means get the stuff done YOU need to do in YOUR life.
No one said go be Henry Rollins.
He doesn’t need your help to be Henry Rollins.
If the only thing you got done is whine, then the only place you’ll be is in those dead end jobs.
September 14th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
I dunno, Kit. I printed out the pic and put it on MY planner.
UMMM, Hank…
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October 25th, 2007 at 7:28 am
data, youre ful of shit. you obviously know a lot less than you think you know about henry. i recently met this man, and jesus christ was it a fucking reality check. yesterday i had a friend straight up tell me she just didnt want to be frieds any more, and if not for hank, i would not be ok right now, but hes the one who showed me that you cant dwell on other peoples noxioius bullshit. you just need to GET YOUR SHIT THE FUCK DONE!!!
now fuck off and flame some deserving asshole. leave mr. “big hawt daddy” (and i concur) rollins out of this
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