I Procrastinate for 3 Hours Before Starting Work. Here’s How I Solved the Problem.
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I Procrastinate for 3 Hours Before Starting Work. Here’s How I Solved the Problem.
I’ve always been a severe perfectionist, but WBW brings together a special cocktail of elements that exacerbate this problem to a ridiculous degree. For one, blog posts are one of those terrible matches for a perfectionist, because no matter what you’ve done, they can always be improved. I could spend a year on a post and it would stil
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The single most effective way of beating perfectionism is by using constraints.
To beat the procrastination that naturally arises from perfectionism, give yourself some constraints.
The 5 most useful ones are:
Time: Decide on a specific time to write every day. Set a timer for how long you’ll write. Once the timer is up, hit publish.
Topic: Get clear o
herself. The only way people will use it is if they do change it in some way. The only way I will encourage them to change it and make it their own is if I make it imperfect. So I stopped the roll-out immediately. And I changed everything to make it half right, half finished. It wasn’t pretty, but it was usable.