Procrastination

Perfection

Maximizer vs Satisfier

Pre-Crastination

Brain

Instant Gratification Monkey

Panic Monster

Wakes up
when deadline is near

Rational Thinker

Vice for Productivity,
Virtue for Creativity

  1. Complete draft, (Racing horse (Charge with blinkers on))
  2. Take a break (enough to forget the content),
  3. Keep collating related info,
  4. Revise it

Solution

  1. Imagine yourself failing spectacularly, and the ensuing frenzy of anxiety may jump-start your engine.
  1. Lower your standards for what counts as progress, and you will be less paralyzed by perfectionism.
  1. Pre-commitment (Financial stakes, Referee)
  1. Time travel to future
  2. Short-term gain, Long-term pain
  3. Reduce uncertainty and distractions
  4. Willpower

Types

Situational Procrastination

Chronic Procrastination

Unwanted tasks

All tasks

One must do action
without any expectation of
the fruit of the action

  1. Concrete Specific Goal

Pomodoro - No digital distraction

  1. Be Positive
  1. Acknowledge and reflect on feelings.
    At the end of the day, ack either a feeling of satisfaction or guilt and anxiety within me
  1. Feel grateful.
    View work as a service to God and to offer it to him as such
  1. Reflection Journal (Record what happens)

Negative emotions
associated with the Work

No lazziness, No poor time mgmt

Creates guilt, stress, anxiety,
depression, diminished self-worth

Fixation on the result of my work

Ideas

Eat ugly frog first

Plan based on your energy level

Habit of procrastination

  1. Trigger
  1. Pattern
  1. Reward

Procrastination => Stress

Procrastination => Avoid doing
another important (stressful) tasks

Procrastination => Little stress relief

Soln: Change pattern

  1. Ack stress
  2. Count 5-4-3-2-1
  3. Interrupt procrastination
  4. Do 1 thing

Self-Worth

Approach Motives instead of
Avoidance motices

List down why you should do it.