Productive Procrastination

Productive procrastination is when you’re busy, yet you’re still procrastinating on your most important tasks.

For example:

You work 8 -10h workdays, you’re always busy, and you feel that you’re productive. But you’re not as productive as you think. Is your big project done? Is it even moving in any direction? If the answer is “not exactly”, you’re presumably a victim of productive procrastination.

By keeping yourself busy with a lot of to-do’s, you distract yourself from doing the work. The work that’s important and impactful still remains untouched.

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What’s the Trap About?

When you procrastinate in the usual way, you almost always realize it. You hardly ever realize when you fall into the trap of productive procrastination.

Think about those days when you: answer a lot of emails, spend time on social media, or do other random to-do’s. You feel very...

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“All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like garde...

JOHN PERRY

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Productive Procrastination: The Negative Side

Before you know it, you are working on tasks that distract you from what you should be doing. You’re busy and you’re getting a lot of tasks done. You feel good about yourself. In reality, you’re actually killing your productivity levels.

If you are close to falling into t...

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If You Can’t Make It Great, At Least Make It

Time blocking is a great way to procrastinate in a productive way. You can take a few moments to plan your day if you don’t feel like starting that big project. It will keep you on track for the rest of the day.

The productive procrastination technique f...

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Productive Procrastination: The Positive Side

Productive procrastination is when you’re efficient and accomplish everything (except for the most important things).

For example: When having a hard project to crack, you may find yourself doing:

laundry
the dishes
cleaning the house

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Tips to Avoid Falling for Productive Procrastination

Learn to identify your most important activities: write them down. If you have more than 5 tasks that you think are important, take a few minutes to identify your top 5. If you work on any other task before spending time on your identified top, you’re falling into the trap....

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