"If we can cast off our entitlements and avoid the promises of quick success, we can more effectively work to complete tasks." Yep, try and try again. In my case, it's more like the Myth of Sisyphus, but what else do I do with the 24 hours in a day? Just enjoy family, friends, work, movies, books, travel, sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, yoga, food, pets, and Hello Kitty dolls? I guess, pushing that rock is the best of the best - "it's life and life only" (Bob Dylan).

The point is: do it if you feel you are just wasting your time when you don't do it. In other words, do you feel anxious, stressed, and/or bummed out when you don't do it? If so, you should probably do it. If you end up gaining praise, money, respect, or whatever "treat" you desire from doing it, you're lucky. If you don't, I guess you weren't as lucky, but you were able to fight back the anxiety or whatever bothered you when you didn't do it. In that way, you came out ahead more than if you didn't do it. In that sense you gained, so I guess you were successful than otherwise: you fought back the demons.