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When I am really procrastinating a school or work project, I start cleaning. When my room is very clean, I likely far behind on a deadline. It makes you feel be
by mackatap 5y ago
When I am really procrastinating a school or work project, I start cleaning. When my room is very clean, I likely far behind on a deadline. It makes you feel better about yourself.
- revolvingocelot 5y agoI like the more general form of this: simply nominate a single activity as "critically important", and then feel sudden surging motivation to do anything and everything else. Sure, that nominated project doesn't get done, but it's a worthy sacrifice to ensure productivity.
- jodrellblank 5y agoI sometimes wonder if you could run a company this way, so you can do work in anyone’s ticket queue, “helping them out”, except work in your own queue. In some ways it’s like the view of Hell being an endless dining table with giant cutlery and everyone struggling to feed themselves, and heaven being the same place but everyone feeding someone else so it all works out.