Tuesday, September 11, 2007
How to Procrastinate More Productively
LifeClever ;-) Tips for Design and Life: "Everyone experiences the desire to procrastinate. For one reason or another, nothing is harder than doing the one task that needs to get done. People go to great lengths — create excuses, find other work, or even hide — to avoid a dreaded task. Usually time spent procrastinating is simply wasted, but it doesn’t have to be."
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I often try to utilize the concept of procrastinating with productivity. Reading articles and writing blog comments are usually the best choice. ;)
The advice is all fine and dandy, but leads me to believe that my problem with procrastination is more severe. I can't even count the number of times that while procratinating to do an important task, I have procrastinated to do any of the other simple things that were listed. I porcrastinate about procrastinating.
I am slowly discovering that there is an art to procrasting small tasks with loose deadlines. Particually true of being at school, awkward amounts of free time come up constantly, either between meetings, a class that gets cancelled, etc.
Instead of staying up an hour later to do three small projects, fill them in to time slots as they arise. Writing on the blog happens to be a great example.
i wonder if it really is procrastinating if you are switching from just one form of work to another. that seems to give procrastinating an even broader meaning then it already has. i do really like his list of ideas for when you simply can't seem ot get anything done. eating being the most important to rejuvinate, yet often is the most forgotten.
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