I Miss Social Time Working from Home

When I tell people that I work from home, I often hear the response, "OMG, that is my dream." While I absolutely love the advantages of working from home, there are certainly some disadvantages. One of those is the inability to just walk out of your office when you need a break and go chit chat with a co-worker or catch up on the daily and nightly events of everyone in the office. Of course, the opposite of that often happens (a co-worker comes into YOUR office and wants to chit chat with you). As someone who prefers to just sit alone in my office and get my work done and then only seldemly "chooses" to venture out for a break or some social time...I'm not sure if it's an advantage or disadvantage to work in an office vs. a home environment.

All in all...I would definitely opt for working from home vs. an office environment, however, I DO miss my "social time."  If anyone ever wants to do a 15 minute WebEx "water cooler" break during the day...LMK!  :-)

Are meetings always such a terrible thing?

For the most part, people always seem talk about how there are TOO many meetings in their workplace.  My colleague John Justice even wrote about a "meeting intervention" a few months ago to solve the meeting insanity problem.

However, are meetings always a bad thing?  It occured to me the other day that if I could limit the number of meetings I had in a week to approximately 3-4 it would be the perfect and ideal number of meetings.  Meetings bring people together.  It also breaks up your day a little bit so you aren't just sitting there working and working without any contact with others in your office/company.  Not having any meetings at all would make one feel really isolated.  At least that's what I think...   

Procrastination...

Why is it that we put certain things off because we don't want to do them, even though we know that by putting it off it is going to make completing that task in the future much more painful.  I'm talking about the giant amounts of laundry I have accumulating in my bedroom, or the massive number of songs I need to download from iTunes, or going through the mail, or any number of things!

I'm sure there are psychological studies discussing the differences between those who procrastinate and those who do not but I am not familiar with that research.  Do you think it is correlated with age?  I feel like people get better, generally, as they get older in terms of not procrastinating as much as they did when they were younger.  Do you think that's true?  Maybe it's wishful thinking in my part that I'll get better and better with age :).