Anxiety Coffee Procrastination Break
More and more, I think my issues with conventional productivity advice – indeed, with the very notion of productivity – boil down to this: Spending your days trying to get through a list of things you feel you have to do is a fundamentally joyless and soul-destroying way to live; and most productivity problems, like distraction or procrastination... See more
It bears repeating: Being productive is not a path to fulfilment. Your productivity is not your self-worth. You can live a great life with zero ‘productive’ output. Do work that gives you an intrinsic sense of satisfaction, not as a stepping stone to happiness.
Anne-Laure Le Cunfftwitter.com
So what kinds of distractions do work well during a 5-10 minute work break? Intuitively, I think we have a pretty good sense of some things that work well:
meditating
getting a glass of water
eating a small snack mindfully
going for a walk outside or around your office
stretching
Some that might be less obvious:
dancing
doing a mini-workout
free association
Mike Jarema • What Kinds of Distractions Are Good for Your Productivity?
How I kill procrastination with AI:
1. Pull up voice mode and brain dump what I’m supposed to be working on.
2. Ask it to break the task down into 25 steps with the first one taking less than 5 seconds.
Poof, now I have a checklist to crush. Instant momentum.
Dickie Bushsubstack.comJust get going with something. Movement creates awareness and activity. So just pick something you feel like doing
I am David Allen, creator of the GTD (Getting Things Done) methodology. Ask me anything!
David Allen on functional freeze states of self-employed people
Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive. This is what all its functions and features ultimately achieve: cameras deliver... See more
