Our to-do lists are filled with tasks we intended to have banged out by now. Yet there they sit, taunting us, reminding us of their undone-ness — and draining our mental energy.
. , author, and almost-reformed chronic procrastinator, I’m a bit of a nut on the topic of procrastination. I’ve studied it from every angle — the psychological, emotional, practical, even physiological. It’s important to acknowledge that everyone procrastinates. But thanks to our ADHD brain wiring, we are the World Champions, the Special Forces, of procrastination.
My client, Carl, is in operations management, and must hand in incident reports regularly. But he procrastinates on this mundane, unpleasant task, which of course gets him into hot water with his supervisor and dings his performance reviews.
If you start and bang away for 45 seconds? That’s a victory. If you re-start and bang away for five more minutes but then get stuck? Victory! Twelve minutes? Victory. Why victory? Because you started, which is the opposite of procrastination.
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