Motivation vs Procrastination
Just set one day’s work in front of the last day’s work. That’s the way it comes out. And that’s the only way it does.
— John Steinbeck
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Ronja von Rönnezeit.deThis task is near the top of my list; it bothers me, and motivates me to do other useful but superficially less important things.
John Perry • Structured Procrastination
Putting challenging timeboxes on projects in a healthy environment can lead to serious innovation and creativity. Doing the same with impossible timeboxes in a toxic environment will lead to all of the bad things that you expect.
James Stanier • Parkinson's Law: It's Real, So Use It
Adding time pressure in a healthy helps getting shit down.
To-Do List as a Menu
📝 If you feel overwhelmed by your to-do list, try a new perspective:
- 🍔 Treat your to-do list like a menu. Instead of a list of chores you must complete, see it as a menu of options you get to choose from.
- 🤔 Acknowledge that you won't finish everything. This is a key part of shifting your mindset from overwhelmed to empowered.
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Manchmal frage ich mich, ob ich ohne diese Prokrastinationsspiralen produktiver wäre. Erfolgreicher. Ausgeglichener. Oder ob gerade dieses Hadern, dieses ewige Ringen mit mir selbst, nicht auch eine Form von Qualitätskontrolle ist. Ob nicht gerade die Deadline – dieser Sonnenuntergang der Arbeitswelt – eine Art kreatives Momentum erzeugt, das
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This tempo and cadence is crucial for effective leadership. Even though you may not think that people want it, and even if people themselves think they don't want it, knowing that things need to be done by deadlines that are just on the cusp of the comfort zone forces real, tangible progress. If you think that a prototype might take a month, why
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People generally underestimate what can be done in a well
Deadlines really help human beings get things done. The only way that I've written books is because I set myself a challenging, but not impossible, schedule with the publisher. This contract of external accountability keeps the fire going through the long slog, and it forces me to make clear-cut decisions about what to include, what to leave out,
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Neurowissenschaftler haben mittlerweile gezeigt, dass bei chronischen Prokrastinierern tatsächlich eine veränderte Hirnaktivität im präfrontalen Kortex – dem Bereich für Selbstkontrolle und Planung – messbar ist. Das macht Prokrastination zu einem neurobiologischen und nicht nur zu einem Willensproblem.