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This does seem like a sensible way to invoke the panic monster - but for me it's often undermined by the fact that it's just me that tried to put the artificial
by icc97 10y ago
This does seem like a sensible way to invoke the panic monster - but for me it's often undermined by the fact that it's just me that tried to put the artificial deadline there and my brain happily ignores it moving onto the next deadline.
There was something similar laid out in this blog [1].
[1]: http://www.raptitude.com/2015/03/how-to-get-yourself-to-do-things/
- ksikka 10y agoThanks for sharing that blog post! I really liked this aspect of it: "You finish a thing by starting it until it’s done." I read another blog post whose thesis was "To avoid procrastinating, think about starting instead of finishing". That helped me a lot too. Once you start, work isn't as bad as it seemed.