Productivity vs Procrastination

[smokingboot]

Better, Ok.

Friday night was great, hanging out with friends.

Saturday night was great, hanging out with other friends.

Sunday I found myself dealing with an old difficult friend.

Today I dealt with some new difficult work.

In the balance, things are more positive than negative. I think I can stop now. There's only one more disagreeable duty, and it can wait.

Of course, I do keep saying that.

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[smokingboot]

I procrastinate a lot more than I work. My work bouts take forever to start unless I am in the zone.

I divide everything down into small tasks and greater, and I do the small first, with a break in between each one. Then I take a big break before starting the big task, with added breaks if I feel myself flagging throughout. Sometimes, with a deadline looming, I apply tunnel vision and just keep going.

But I have no consistent strategy!

[jfs]

I have been thinking about this a lot, working with both my therapist and my coach to attack the issue and think I am making progress. Interestingly, the first thing that helped was an approach called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_and_commitment_therapy) which takes the stance that procrastination is part of me, and there are powerful good things it does for me. The thoughts are distilling, so I'll write something longer at some point, but initially it does seem to be helping.

Obviously we're all on our own journeys, and what works for me may well not work for you. But I thought I should flag some baby steps forward.

[smokingboot]

Thank you so much! This could be very helpful to me, I'm going to go check it out now :-)