Double your productivity with structured procrastination.
"You're just procrastinating", she said.
"No", he replied, "I just made an instant decision to do that tomorrow."
We've all been there.
Some of us spend more time procrastinating than it would take to get the job done.
But that's not a bad thing.
Most Time Management people will try to tell you that their solution will eliminate procrastination.
That's not true.
If you refuse to write the list and prioritise it, then procrastination wins again.
If you write the list and then hide it under the blotter or go for a walk to get a coffee, then procrastination wins again.
However, there is a Time Management system that I think we can all get behind and make work for us.
That system is Structured Procrastination.
The essence of this system is simple:
". . . anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." -- Robert Benchley, in Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949.
In summary:-
- Structured Procrastination is a technique used to convert procrastinators into effective human beings.
- It involves carefully structuring tasks based on importance and finding ways to do marginally useful things instead of important ones.
- Doing this can eventually lead to a reputation for being productive, even if creative ways are sought to avoid actually doing the top, most important tasks.
You'll find the article here
http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
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If you need to fine-tune your structured procrastination a little, you can find a lovely method here: http://expost.padm.us/fv.
The TL:DR version is:-
Add tasks to the bottom of your to-do list as you think of them.
When ready to work on your tasks, put a dot in front of the first task on the list.
Continue down the list until you hit a task you want to do (not must do) before doing the task you just dotted.
Put a dot in front of that task and repeat until you reach the end of the list.
You now have a chain of tasks with dots in front of them
Do these dotted tasks from bottom to top.
You can either complete a task and cross it off or start a task, cross it off, and re-add it at the bottom.
If urgent tasks arise, add them to the bottom with a dot, so they're done first.
I hope that helps all you procrastinators who want to become more productive but have put it off until tomorrow.
Regards,
Brent.
P.S. The tool I'm currently using to help me be more productive in driving visitors to my website(s) is TraffickLinkr, https://go.wm-tips.com/linkr.
With this tool and the automation software, I have made 30 comments (with a link to my site), liked 51 posts, and followed 35 blogs.
The comments bring visitors from those blogs, and the likes and follows attract attention from the blog owner bringing more visitors.
This is in three days, but only working on them for less than an hour each day.
The target place can be anywhere you choose.
The testing is over for me, and I will ramp this up by adding more places to target and niches to exploit.
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