Do You Procrastinate?

Does this sound like you?

You have an unstructured or flexible work schedule

You might be:

• an individual contributor in tech
• a solopreneur, or
• a writer

You have big dreams about how to spend your time

If you could get your work done efficiently, you would:

• learn how to do it even better and move up in the world
• spend more quality time with your family and friends
• take better care of your body
• finally get your side project off the ground,
• make incredible art, and/or
• spend more time volunteering to make this world less of a dumpster fire

But you can’t seem to stay on task

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Why You Procrastinate

In order to make time for the things that matter to you most, you need to be able to do the intimidating, boring, and unpleasant tasks on your to do list without wasting hours working up the nerve to do them. You need to be able to get stuff done.

You can think of the process of getting stuff done as a process of driving a car from Ideatown to Accomplishmentville. If you’re procrastinating, you’re not arriving in Accomplishmentville with enough time to park, breathe a contented sigh, and have a night out on the town.

Somewhere along the way, you’re getting stuck or sidetracked.

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How to Stop Procrastinating

To understand how to stop procrastinating, we need to understand the anatomy of procrastination. And that anatomy is a lot like the anatomy of a weed.

Think of your schedule as a garden. You plant different kinds of activities in it, and some of them bear useful fruit, and others, like pretty flowers, are just enjoyable. Procrastination is like a weed growing in that garden. It steals your time and energy from better pursuits just like weeds steal sunlight and soil nutrients from more desirable plants.

And procrastination has three layers, just like a plant has leaves, stems, and roots. Let’s look at each of these layers to learn how to uproot procrastination.

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