Do you struggle with procrastination? Share your tips for staying productive and getting stuff done. We all could use some new ideas.
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I literally opened this tab to answer it at 8AM. It's now 9:43.
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Not at all. My 2 cent to avoid procrastination:
Eat. Code. Exercise. Sleep. Repeat.
Yes. Write now I'm writing this answer instead of debugging my bot for Coze AI Bot Challenge. BTW, you are welcome to try it.
I procrastinate a horrible lot.
After highschool, for years I've thought I was lazy and that I would never get anything done. Then I became a nurse, worked 13 hours shifts and got a lot done, and I understood that I was not lazy but struggled with motivation.
Fast-forward a few years, I got diagnosed with ADD (ADHD without hyperactivity) and started the journey of understanding how my brain works and how I can work with it instead of against it.
There are lots of tips out there about how to make todo lists, how to take advantage calendars and reminders, how to set timers and use the pomodoro technique...
They all shared one downside (for me): when I set up a system, at the beginning I use it and it helps me, but after a short period of time (can be a few days or a few weeks) there is always one moment where I don't use the system. And then I never use it again, because it feels impossibly hard to go back to it.
It took me a few therapists and a few years to understand that my ADHD was made much worse by my perfectionnism. And here I don't mean perfectionnism as in what's your worst default? oh I'm a perfectionnist kind of interview bullshit, but as a real struggle that my brain uses as an avoidance strategy:
My therapist at the time really helped me to understand that as long as I didn't get a better understanding of why I was perfectionnist with a tendancy to self-sabotage, I would have trouble setting up systems that could help me and last long enough to make a difference.
And to the surprise of nobody, this all had roots in my self-esteem problems, and working on this really starts to make a difference.
I'm now able to tell myself that this comment is good enough, even if it's too long, probably has a few typos and weird phrasing (not a native english speaker) so I'll post it and go back to learning CS instead of spending the next 3 hours trying to fix it!
Have a good day everyone!
PS: Also, for me, using more paper and less digital for my calendar and todo lists tends to work better.
I'll tell you later.
Me to Dev: “Of course I do!”
Me to potential employers: “Procrastinate? What is that? No way, I never procrastinate!!”
Me to potential employers who see that comment…
Yes I do! For me the goal is to get into "the flow" and to get into that I have a few tools and techniques:
100% YES, but only when the work is boring as hell. But if I'm interested in the work, I do the opposite of procrastinating. I have to say that it's not bad per se, i think it's a method of surviving the stress and hardship of the job in many situations. But this is only the case if you don't attach negative connotations to it. Understand why you are procrastinating and if it's good or bad in that situation. If it's chronic it's another story though.
I'll get back to you on that rq
I don’t answer to that, gonna doomscroll twitters instead… 🥱
I guess I would be take the the greatest master championship in procrastinating if it would exist such... Look I was almost opening my terminal and running "bun dev" when I suddenly stumbled across this very urgent to answer discussion... 🤡
Organization is Key
Is it procrastinating if you keep discovering cool and useful stuff that you will access later by keeping 30 tabs open? Yes. I have only just started telling myself that I only need to keep the currently relevant tabs open. However, this has led me to populating my desktop with direct links, which is ugly. So now, I have another mess to clean up, adding to the list of things, elongating the procrastination...
However, if I am genuinely fascinated by something, I dive in, all at once and get it done in .5 seconds. I would say the the most important thing in procrastination is priority management. A simple soft skill that can be organized by lists, charts, sheets and calendars. It's hard to keep track of. There is only so much space in our brains. Put that thought somewhere so you can access it later if its that important.
Getting things out of your head and into an organized system makes room in your mind to focus on the task at hand. This allows for a higher functioning brain in general. Who doesn't want that! If I do not have some kind of organization, I often find myself thinking in infinite loops and on going on whimsical ADHD tangents.
Oh, definitely. After all, I'm sitting here writing this instead of doing the productive work which I should be doing...
Yes, very much so. I find that I procrastinate a lot more when I don't get enough sleep or when I don't sleep well. Even 15 minutes less than my regularly scheduled 8 hours gets me to procrastinate more xD.
Yes a lot..
I decided to start practice coding from 10 am. But I somehow ended up wasting 6 hours in playing a game and started coding at 5pm instead.
Yes I used to procrastinate a lot! The main reason behind the procrastination is negative self talks running behind the brain.
Solution:
Watch your thoughts, then replace those thoughts with positive ones. Try mindfulness meditation and work without judgement.
Yes. A lot.
Yes, It's the most horrible thing I ever faced.
I saw the calendar every day and marked down the day It has been approx 110 days.
I improved a little bit but I can do it better Procrastination destroys everything
Can anyone tell me how to escape from Procrastination?
I waited before replying … wait I tell you if I do in a moment … maybe
Guilty as charged.
Too much, unfortunately 😮💨. Most especially if it's work.
All the time.
Yes, I do. Only if I could get paid to do it.
My best tip is to try to tackle as soon as possible.
In recent times I feel like I procrastinated a little less which isn't much... I mean, I started to develop a blog site 4 years ago and still not even halfway there
I try to stay goal-oriented as opposed to time-oriented. That is, "I need to do X, Y, and Z" today rather than "I need to sit in front of the keyboard for X hours". If I finish early, great.
Yes, unfortunately.
I need to pick up some slack - but school, and other things, make me sooo lazy.