Ha... What am I even doing here? How did I end up on Dev.to creating a hole in the time-space continuum because I'm procrastinating while writing about procrastinating?
Let's back-track.
The other not-work related tab I have open is Twitter, it's a safe bet I clicked on a twitter link to get here. It's also a safe bet to say I clicked this one to make me feel better about myself. But what was I doing on Twitter?
My other tab is a WordPress back-end on the 'update plugins' page. One update failed.
So after my detective word I deduced that I was updating plugins on this WordPress site. It took too long (everything that takes over 3 secs is too long), I was distracted so I decided to look on twitter for the duration of the task. Of course I forgot what I was doing, the task has long failed / finished and I'm of the path.
If I didn't realise that I'm distracted at this very moment, the next thing I'd probably do is check the Markdown cheatsheet to make this comment look nicer and after that fix the Readme's on my github projects because I've been wanting to do that (they're only read by me, by the way).
In other words; finding out what causes me to be distracted in the first place is very important to me. If I don't have to directly communicate with anyone I'll work with my headphones on and am barely distracted by external factors. So for me it's mostly things like tedious tasks and having to wait on things to upload/download/install. Now I know when the distractions happen, I try and prevent them by moving non-blocking, tedious tasks to right before a break ("if you see this through, you deserve a break!" I keep telling myself). It only works half of the time, but awareness is a first step, I guess 😉.
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Ha... What am I even doing here? How did I end up on Dev.to creating a hole in the time-space continuum because I'm procrastinating while writing about procrastinating?
Let's back-track.
The other not-work related tab I have open is Twitter, it's a safe bet I clicked on a twitter link to get here. It's also a safe bet to say I clicked this one to make me feel better about myself. But what was I doing on Twitter?
My other tab is a WordPress back-end on the 'update plugins' page. One update failed.
So after my detective word I deduced that I was updating plugins on this WordPress site. It took too long (everything that takes over 3 secs is too long), I was distracted so I decided to look on twitter for the duration of the task. Of course I forgot what I was doing, the task has long failed / finished and I'm of the path.
If I didn't realise that I'm distracted at this very moment, the next thing I'd probably do is check the Markdown cheatsheet to make this comment look nicer and after that fix the Readme's on my github projects because I've been wanting to do that (they're only read by me, by the way).
In other words; finding out what causes me to be distracted in the first place is very important to me. If I don't have to directly communicate with anyone I'll work with my headphones on and am barely distracted by external factors. So for me it's mostly things like tedious tasks and having to wait on things to upload/download/install. Now I know when the distractions happen, I try and prevent them by moving non-blocking, tedious tasks to right before a break ("if you see this through, you deserve a break!" I keep telling myself). It only works half of the time, but awareness is a first step, I guess 😉.