Procrastination: What are you doing?

Apart from reading this of course? What are you doing today? Is the "thing" you were doing, before I rudely interrupted you, important, urgent, important and urgent, or were you just filling in time between tasks? You see I think it is the movement between tasks that can have a major impact on where we get to at the end of the day. Have you noticed that if your day is not structured and planned, you will procrastinate between the tasks? Believe me when I say it is true.

I had an incredibly busy and productive morning today. I started and completed an expression of interest for a client, wrote a newsletter, cleaned out my emails, and answered a couple of queries - For me - that is a lot of work in a couple of hours. Of course it may be nothing compared to what you've done today, but as I said, for me - not a bad morning.

The difference - having a task list, a time log, and a desire to clean my desk before the end of the working week. But whatever works for you - just do it.

So - what are you going to do now you've read this? Me I have another newsletter to write and some copy to be written and added to the other website I am building (it's lunch time BTW) - and sometimes living in the creative realm I need to do something completely different to transition between the different parts of my job. Whilst some people may go and chat to their colleagues and neighbours, make coffee or read the newspaper, I put one job away, clean my desk and pick up the next thing. I try and answer all the emails in one go, and make any telephone calls I need to make in a single block. I find it's far less disruptive that way. But as I said - whatever works for you.  

So what are you doing on the weekend? I am going to be spending a lot of time this weekend writing, I get twitchy when I don't write. But I'm also reading an emotionally hard book. One of the top 100 A&R books of all time....according to popular vote that is. Not a writer I would normally read, but you shouldn't just read the easy stuff - you need to move away from the stuff you normally read and branch out - you'll get far more out of life, if you are willing to see it, read it, share it.

So whatever you are going to do this weekend, I hope you enjoy it. After all life is about enjoyment. A rest after a long and sometimes difficult week of broken promises and unresolved questions. Because if you knew all the answers - well, what else would there be to strive for?

Comments

[Shruthi]

Nice one...
im getting it.. Thanks :)