This method for getting work done, was suggested by John Perry who
is a Stanford Professor! The idea is to use procrastination to beat
procrastination. How?
Pretty simple. You see, procrastinators keep postponing important /
difficult / frustrating work and they convince them selves that some
other work is more important. Procrastinators are not exactly time
wasters. They are never doing absolutely NOTHING! They are always doing
something but not the most important thing. They convince them selves
that they must postpone the current task to do a more important
task.
So, if you want to beat procrastination, you can get a lot of work done
by always keeping your hands full. If you have 5 items on your to-do
list today, make them ten items. Put tomorrows 5 items on today’s
list. Now, when you sit to do stuff, you will try to start the most
important work, but you will postpone it. You will decide to pick up
some other work on your to-do list and do it instead. When that is
done, you might still postpone the most important work, and do
something else that is on the list.
So, you keep postponing the most important work by doing all the other
less important work that is on your list. That way, you actually end up
getting all your other work done! You will be able to get a lot of work
done this way! You will get all the most important work postponed and
do the less important work.
I know the idea may sound a little childish. However, it does actually
work. If you keep your to-do list full at all times, you will be able
to actually use procrastination to get all your work done! In-fact
because you are a procrastinator, you will be able to get more done
than anybody else! Don’t believe us, try it!
Now, you are probably wondering, what about the important work that you
keep procrastinating? Here is the key to this technique. Choose some
work that is a little difficult / frustrating / time consuming / boring
etc. and convince your self that the work is a BIG CHORE! When you
select this work, make sure that the work is not really important. Even
if you do it much later, it will not have that much of an effect on
things. But in your mind, you need to convince your self that it is an
important job. Make this the activity at the top of the list that you
keep procrastinating. Now, even if you do not do this "most important
work" for some time, things will be fine. But you can still use this to
get your other work done.
We know, that you may be reading the above paragraph and thinking that
all this is very immature and childish and that it will not work. But,
it will! Procrastinators have a knack for convincing them selves. That
is why they are procrastinators. Now, you have to convince your-self
and use this talent to your advantage.
Try it out! It works!…Everyone has their own style of structured
procrastination. The basic idea is the same: Procrastinate some work by
doing other work. In effect getting a lot of work done!
Next we will look at some other simple methods that you can use to overcome your procrastination!
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