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.
- Tackle your most important activities first thing in the day. Don’t work on anything else before you finish your work on your most important activity. Most people work on low to mid-value tasks first because it’s easier. As we go by during the day, our mental resources, like willpower and our ability to focus diminish.
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