A technique to overcome procrastination

Quick Quote


"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it." ~Olin Miller

A technique to overcome procrastination (1 hour of productive time)

1. Take 2 subjects/projects/areas of work which are very different, including one which you have been resisting. We will call them project A and B

2. Get a kitchen timer or stopwatch or use your mobile timer

3. Use the following sequence to work on your projects:

• Project A (5 minutes exactly)

• Project B (5 minutes exactly)

• Project A (10 minutes exactly)

• Project B (10 minutes exactly)

• Project A (15 minutes exactly)

• Project B (15 minutes exactly)



Tips to make this method work:

• Do not allow yourself to get distracted by anything else. If you do get distracted, just restart the timer from the time at the beginning of the distraction

• Be strict about stopping when the time is up - it is easier to restart something which is incomplete than to start something new

• Start the next project immediately without a gap

• Make sure the projects are quite distinct from each other

• Give yourself limited targets for each time burst (break your project down into bite-sized, manageable chunks)

• Be prepared to have unfinished work lying around. Use a plastic folder to keep it in if it's paperwork. This will give you an incentive to finish it!

PS I like having time to focus on one thing so I was seriously sceptical about this approach, but believe me, it works! Just give it a try...

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