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I don't think that is the case for many people, myself included. There are two sides to this not being the best way to think of it for some: - slipping on dead
by parsley27 6y ago
I don't think that is the case for many people, myself included. There are two sides to this not being the best way to think of it for some:
- slipping on deadlines becomes cumulative and does affect your career or business; the more work that is delayed, the most difficult it seems to be to ever catch up
- there is a fast-approaching deadline for all of us, and I don't want to look back on what may be my last decade of high productivity and realize I spent most of it on Netflix and Steam
As said by others, procrastination is often a symptom of negative visualization of a task; if you can train yourself to drop the fixation of a task being unpleasant, you can overcome most procrastination.
That has worked for me; now, when I miss deadlines, it's more due to overestimating my energy than falling victim to my own procrastination.
- chpmrc 6y agoWhat if you framed those 2 problems (having to catch up and not wanting to realize you watched too much Netflix) as self imposed goals? Then you'd have to answer the question: why do you feel the need to catch up (unless not catching up leads to consequences that would make you feel even worse and from which you cannot recover)? Why do you feel like spending most of the time on Netflix or Steam is a waste of time? What if the need to set an arbitrary goal and the need to achieve it were just a way to cope with the fact that we are not genuinely interested in having any (at the moment)? And what's wrong with that?
- parsley27 6y agoI personally don't feel contentment can come without some form of productivity, not that it has to be a traditional concept of work. I think not having goals is a breeding ground for discontent and depression. But like everything else, it often depends on personal experience.