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.

Productive Procrastination

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:<ul><li>laundry</li><li>the dishes</li><li>cleaning the house</li><li>washing your car</li><li>organizing files on the computer</li><li>cleaning the bathroom</li><li>cooking.</li></ul>You actually worked and achieved something.  Procrastinating doesn’t have to mean “doing nothing”. You can still do low-level, unimportant stuff. Productive procrastinators are great workers. They are able to do a lot of work, provided it is not the one they should be doing at the moment.

Productive Procrastination: The Positive Side

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 focuses on a specific worldview: If you can’t make it great, at least make it.  This approach doesn't perceive procrastination as the opposite of productivity. Even if you’re not working on the task you set out to do, you’re still making progress on eliminating slices of your productivity pie.

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

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:<ul><li>Don’t use busyness to protect yourself from doing the things that you should. This way you fail to reach your dreams.</li><li>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</li></ul>

Productive Procrastination: The Negative Side

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 productive. Your brain rewards you for this behavior. It produces dopamine when you’re working on a lot of different tasks. This, in turn, stimulates the repetition of this behavior. But productive procrastination is unproductive in the long run.

What’s the Trap About?

<ul><li>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.</li><li>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. </li></ul>

Tips to Avoid Falling for Productive Procrastination

“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 gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important”

Productive procrastination is when you're efficient but not effective. You accomplish everything, except for the most important things.

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Productive Procrastination: How to Avoid Falling Into the Trap

The phrase ‘the early bird catches the worm’ isn’t lore–it has very real-world repercussions. Most millionaires (and, naturally, billionaires) get their game face on as early as 5:30am.

Start The Day Early 

The biggest marker of a person slated for success? The desire to keep learning. Only the arrogant truly believe they know everything there is to know. The people who know the most, however, always believe there is much more they don’t. Example: Former chairperson and chief executive officer of PepsiCo Indra Nooyi believes that no amount of questions is too many to ask. “I spend so much time on details that from the outside it can seem crazy,” Nooyi told Huxleў in a 2021 interview. “But the details are most important in the management of the organisation. So dig deep. Be curious.

Stay Curious

Even though they might seem like risk-takers in every possible way, most millionaires are creatures of habit. Their day usually follows a format; one that optimises for their time and productivity. From an early start to a set bedtime, to designated time for exercise, emails and down-time, most super-successful folks have their day charted out in advance.Mark Cuban has specified times for everything; from cardio to TV. Warren Buffet goes to bed at 10 pm every night, reading for about 30 minutes before sleeping at 10:45pm.

Make–And Follow–A Routine

‘Dream’ is a buzzword that is bandied about a lot in motivational speeches, but the most successful people know that the real distinction is not to have dreams, but goals. A dream is a general idea, a wish for something that you desire personally or professionally.A goal, however, is a clear feat you want to accomplish; and it comes with a path to getting that you need to create. Equally important is setting goals for yourself that are a challenge; that push you a few inches further out of your comfort zone each time.

Set Clear Goals

It takes a village to make a person successful, and anyone who’s got to the top of their field will back that statement up. Not to take away from the hard work of the millionaires that have risen through the ranks, but success is never a single-player game.As Dr. Majid Kazmi, CEO of uGen Group puts it, “It may sound paradoxical, but strength comes from vulnerability. You have to ask the question to get the answer, even though asking the question means you didn't know.”

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There’s a lot less that separates you from the average millionaire than you think. I mean, sure, it's a few zeros in your bank balance and a few vintage cars in your garage, but a lot of the people you admire right now started out not too far from where you are. 

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You have to realize that sometimes it is procrastination and sometimes it is just you allocating time in a more effective way. You must realize whether you are actually procrastinating or do you genuinely don't have enough time One suggestion is saying that it doesn't count as procrastination unless you planned to do the activity

1. Not Knowing the Difference between real or fake Procrastination

We as humans naturally procrastinate because we are always thinking of benefiting ourselves in the short term rather than the long term. So when we realize that we are procrastinating it makes no sense to be mad at ourselves rather we should acknowledge we are procrastinating and make the conscious decision whether we are going to continue procrastinating or rather go and accomplish our life goal.

2. Beating Ourselves Up

If we realize that we are not doing what we are supposed to do rather than just saying "I need to try harder" and " This isn't good enough" We should instead focus on changing how we go about doing things. We need to learn to make things easier for ourselvesTrying harder is rarely ever the solution

3. We Press The Try Harder Button 

If we have the mindset that, I am a human I can just try harder and accomplish anything I set my mind to we will undoubtedly fail here are some steps that we should take instead<ol><li>Make it easier for ourselves to accomplish the goal that we want by telling other people, making a reward system or many other ways.</li></ol>

4. We Treat Ourselves As Humans Rather Than Systems

If you already don't want to accomplish the goal, or you hate doing the task and you feel like you have to do it. The chances you will fail will be very highHumans only have a limited amount of willpower available to them each day, so make sure that you figure out ways to enjoy the tasks that you have to do.

5. Trying To Push The Bolder Up The Hill

Procrastination is a very interesting topic, with a lot of information about it here are 5 things that many people mistake about procrastination<ol><li>Not Knowing the Difference between real or fake Procrastination</li></ol>2. Beating Ourselves Up3. We Press The Try Harder Button 4. We Treat Ourselves As Humans Rather Than Systems

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5 Mistakes Procrastinators Make (And How To Avoid Them...)

Western work culture has been like this:<ul><li>80-hour work weeks.</li><li>High-pressure environments.</li><li>Little time for rest and recovery.</li></ul>Why do people waste an entire day and only have a few hours for themselves that also includes preparing for the next day?This has been a talking point for a long time now. 4-hour workdays, singular focus, and meaningful work are becoming the norm in our little pocket of Twitter — and we are creating a future of passionate individuals that produce world-shifting creations.

The Premise

Ancient Romans, Ancient Greeks, Steve Jobs, Charles Darwin, and an infinite list of visionaries, strategists, and innovators attributed their success to surprisingly low “work” times.Writers from multiple domains, like Hemingway and Tarantino, would spend the majority of their days lounging by the pool, spitting games with girls, and doing everything aside from what they deemed “work.”

Less Work Is More

Imagine going to the gym for 8 hours trying to be as “productive” as possible. You would try to max out on main exercises like the nervous system taxing deadlift, then go on to do accessory movements. In one day, you would run out of exercises to do. Would you be able to come back and give it your all the next day? How about 5 days in a row? Would you be able to tough it out until you can use your paid vacation time to recover and do it all over again?Your body would be decimated without rest and recovery.

Importance Of Rest And Recovery

While corporate culture is handing you a pretty paycheck to incentivize sustained intensity, we must push back.Intensity isn’t sustainable. It’s not rocket science. Sustainability, consistency, and creativity must be prioritized before we even mention the word “productivity.”

Push Back From Capitalist Demands

Fill your brain in the afternoons with books, learning, and socialization.Empty your brain before bed with journaling, planning, and meditation.Use your brain in the morning with creation, output, and focus.

Your psyche is wired for survival. If you have attachments to the external world — relationships of any form — that threaten your identity when the relationship is challenged, then you will not be able to act authentically. That is to say, you will have difficulty opening your mind to reality to leverage nature. Your attachments — or perceived needs — will act as obstructions that slow the flow of your productive and creative energy.You cannot be your true, authentic self if you need something that you do not already have.

A Word Of Caution

Productivity is related to the balance and degree to which you engage in deep play, deep rest, and lastly deep work.For value creators, those that intend to put good out into the world, you must adopt the habit of conscious study. Without expanding your worldview, mind, and knowledge through exposing yourself to novel perspectives; how do you plan to create? Creativity, in some aspects, is about pulling from multiple sources and mashing them together. Like deconstructing a topic, learning about its parts through study, and building your own creation as you would playing with legos.

Fill Your Mind

When aligned with your vision, values, and goals you can consume information with the intention to understand and apply. This can begin to act as a vessel for raising your consciousness. You start to gain clarity on your life’s work through exposure to the information that aligns with you the most. If you don’t know where to start, re-read the book that changed the way you think, it will do it again.

Consume Information To Raise Your Consciousness

Aside from movement and exercise being great for your health, there is something unique about walks. Ancient masters swore by it, industry leaders took them religiously, and the world’s most respected creatives made them a part of their everyday routine.The ideas flow in a steady stream. From the  subconscious to conscious. Sometimes you just need that one word, letter, sound, example, anecdote, or story to bring up a thought that leads you down a rabbit hole of questioning and exploration.

Going For A Walk

When you get out of the house you become less prone to familiar distractions that will impact your study just by being in that environment. It doesn’t matter how hard you try to block out the distractions. You know they are there and they will occupy creative energy.Filling your mind can be done at any time, and may be scattered throughout your day, but for the sake your own experimentation and clarity; start with doing this in the afternoons. If you do not have time to do this in the afternoon, sprinkle it throughout your day. I will give personal examples below.

Reading In The Sun

In psychology, there is something called the Default Mode Network. From the book Rest, this default mode network is “a series of interconnected sections that activate as soon as people stop concentrating on external tasks, and shifts from outward-focused to inward-focused cognition.”When “activated” through restful, meditative, or open activities the brain is not any less active than it would be when engaged in something like focused work, or something that demands narrow focus and concentrated attention.

Empty Your Mind

When your focus is open, your subconscious mind is still working hard and munching on problems. Many programmers understand this well. They will often work on a project, encounter a bug, struggle to fix it, “give up,” and go about their day. At the most unexpected time, the perfect solution will pop into their head and the excited programmer will rush to open their code base to test it out. Shower thoughts is another example of this.

Shower Thoughts And And Open Focus

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

How do you empty your mind?By immersing yourself in the present moment. Flowing with the river of life and the highs and lows that it presents.There are many ways to make this easier on you to grasp, but understand that all of these means lead to the same end:<ol><li>The Gym</li><li>Nature</li><li>Meditation</li><li>Physical mediums</li></ol>

The Present Movement

Gym bros talk a lot about “mind-muscle connection” and other things that are just short for anchoring your attention in the present. When you are at the gym, be a silent observer. Observe the voice in your head that tells you to quit. Observe how the muscle feels as it contracts. Observe the blood flowing quicker through your body.This works for any exercise, not only the gym. Elevated bodily functions that are easily observable make it easier to treat the gym as a meditation practice.

1. The Gym As A Meditative Practice

From a psychological lens, nature presents the perfect formula for flow. On a hike, you order your consciousness by having a vision of how you want the hike to go. You construct a hierarchy of goals in your mind that allow you to gain clarity on the climb. You may have a water intake goal, distance goal, health goal, or just the goal to have a good time in nature. From there, you begin your ascent up the trail and are faced with a challenge. Even better, you planned the hike to match your skill level and you don’t have to incessantly think. Hiking becomes an art form and you kick into flow.

2. A Hiking Trip In Nature

Conscious meditation (obviously), conscious walks, conscious listening during a conversation, conscious writing, and conscious creating.When you are just starting out, and even when you are deep into the space, you are just doing the activities that people tell you to do. Most people are meditating unconsciously, which is a funny example. They are mechanically going through the motions because it has become habitual. They aren’t getting the benefits they would get if they simply prioritized consciousness at any given moment — not just during meditation.

3. The Always On Meditation: Being Conscious

Everything that is not absolute truth (unknowable or unspeakable with words alone) is relative. Relative means that there is a relationship. Cause and effect. Polarity. One thing cannot exist without the other. During meditation, can you follow a thought to another thought to an event until the lines are blurred and you glimpse into Infinity?

Everything Is Relative

Another way to order consciousness or create clarity is to express the unorganized thoughts that are in your head. This is done through writing or speaking.One such method is brain dump journaling. How do you brain dump journal? First, by writing out every single thing that you can bring your attention to in your mind. Once you have all your thoughts, reactions to feelings, emotions, and tasks written in a chaotic fashion on your paper — you can start to organize them.This is where connections are made and clarity is gained.

4. Physical Mediums

Using your mind comes last as we have filled and emptied our minds. By filling our minds we have expanded them, broadening our awareness and allowing The Law of Inspired Action to come into play. This gives us fresh creative firepower for when we use our mind. By emptying our mind we have allowed the Default Mode Network to come into play. Our subconscious mind will deliver insight to our conscious mind and we can order said consciousness through brain dump journaling.

Use Your Mind

There are 3 main things that come into play when getting into deep, focused work:<ul><li>Leveraged familiarity</li><li>Ordered consciousness</li><li>Connection to The Unknown</li></ul>Our goal with focused work is to eliminate distractions, get into flow, and produce quality work in the short amount of time that our finite creative energy allows.

Deep, Focussed Work

Leveraged familiarity is a soft morning routine. The human brain loves to conserve the energy wasted on familiar things. Hence why habit formation is so popular, like putting certain and preferably beneficial aspects of your life on autopilot. As with most things, there is depth to the term habits. There are mental, emotional, physical, and financial habits that could each be broken down even further to take a peek into how robotic we truly are in our unconscious lives.

Leveraged familiarity

There are 3 steps to unlocking deep focus:1. Goal (direction)2. Plan (clarity)3. Reduced friction (action)A desired outcome + knowing how to get there + simple execution will put you into a distraction-numbing state of flow.

Unlock That Flow Mode

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The 3-Part Daily Routine For Maximum Productivity - Dan Koe

A productive day means achieving all the work you set out to do. This is the essence of any work productivity. While some people may be naturally productive, others may be struggling to stay productive. There are some simple things that can boost your productivity. Productivity is for everyone. In fact, being productive is essential for you to be successful in all that you do. Productivity is the ability to effectively get tasks done. Any day that you don’t complete a task that you set out to do, is a day that you’re not productive. B

Tips On How To Stay Productive 

Checklist is one of the best ways that can help you in arranging your work that you are going to do throughout your whole day. Creating a checklist makes you <a href="https://inspirationalblogs45.blogspot.com/2022/04/best-ways-to-stay-focused.html">focused towards your work </a> as you know what you have to do next.  A morning checklist is one of the most valuable tools you can have when it comes to getting organised and making the most of your mornings.  By planning out your morning the night before, you avoid having to rush around getting ready for work in the morning.

1. Create a morning checklist

Multitasking is the biggest enemy when it comes to productivity while doing something important. You must keep in mind that your focus must be on a single thing. Working on two things at the same time makes you confused and chances of mistakes increases as it may cause you a lot of damage. Multitasking makes your brain focus on two things at a single time. As a result, your focus gets divided into two things and you become less productive. So try to avoid multitasking but you can go for multitasking while doing something boring.

2. Work only on one project

One would think that getting a good night’s sleep is easy; after all, you are expected to go to bed, sleep all night, then wake up refreshed and ready to tackle the day. But the truth is, some find it hard to fall asleep, while others spend a majority of the night tossing and turning. A good sleep can make your mind much more relaxed. Having a good sleep helps your mind in reorganising all that complex stuff that you have acquired throughout your whole day.

3. Get into a good sleep  routine

Reading nourishes your mind and soul. It makes you activate your all senses together, you learn new things and you implement them in life. Reading can bring a great change if you implement the values of reading in your life, you can go for books Reading or listening to podcasts and speeches. The time you use in scrolling Instagram reels try to use that time in learning something new. Those were the 4 tips on how you can stay productive in your life. Here's a bonus tip for you.

4. Begin each day with reading

In conclusion, Lastly, some researchers have found that by doing simple things, such as taking breaks or not being afraid to walk away for five minutes to clear your head, can help you focus. So try some of these tips and see if they improve your productivity.  So take a break, refresh yourself and start once again.  That's all  Good day

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