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.
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.
Not at all. My 2 cent to avoid procrastination:
Eat. Code. Exercise. Sleep. Repeat.
I'll tell you later.
I'll get back to you on that rq
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…
I don’t answer to that, gonna doomscroll twitters instead… 🥱
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.
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.
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?
Yes. A lot.
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.
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.