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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 this trap:

  • Don’t use busyness to protect yourself from doing the things that you should. This way you fail to reach your dreams.
  • Hard work doesn’t equal success. It can be its component if you work hard on the right tasks and activities. Think about it. If hard work equaled success, all construction workers would be millionaires

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Started studying chemistry at college, never finished.

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