This is just what I need for a sleep deprived Friday morning. A kick in the seat of the pants! 43 Folders has a post on using all of your focused energy on your most procrastinated task for as little as 1 minute. Coincidentally, this is the same type of method I used to use to psych myself into jogging when I didn’t want to. For instance, I’d tell myself “Just run for 5 minutes – then I can quit” This always worked. There is virtually no way to stop jogging after 5 minutes.
Yes! The miracle of just working on the “hard stuff” fast and furious for just a minute is it’s usually impossible to stop after you get started.
Link: 43 Folders.
Kick procrastination’s ass: Run a dash
Procrastination can drive most of us into a spiral of shame that’s as mundane as it is painfully personal. We know what we should be doing, but some invisible hang-up keeps us on the line. Unfortunately, the guaranteed consequence of procrastination is growth in the scale of the task you’ve been putting off-as well as the anxiety that it creates. All the time you’re putting something off, your problem’s getting bigger-both in reality and in your head, where your colorful imagination is liable to turn even the most trivial item into an unsolvable juggernaut that threatens to overwhelm you. And that means extra stress, more procrastination, and the music goes round.
