Posts Tagged ‘procrastinating’

10 Ways For Productive Procrastination

Sometimes it's just unavoidable. We procrastinate. Work is work, and you can find yourself doing anything to avoid it for a few more minutes. Why don't we use that time to do something at least a little productive. This is a list of some great suggestions to do that. 1. Write a personal email or letter to someone If there is a relationship you cherish or someone who means a lot… Continue reading

April 19 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: procrastinating, procrastination | 5 comments»

Eat the Frogs First – A Guide to Prioritizing

WOWNDADI wrote an article about a particular line of thinking in regards to prioritizing the tasks in your day. The idea is to do put each task into one of four categories:

1. Things you don’t want to do, and actually don’t need to do.
2. Things you don’t want to do, but actually need to do.
3. Things you want to do and actually need to do.
4. Things you want to do

April 2 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: prioritizing, procrastinating, procrastination | 13 comments»

The Prepared Don’t Procrastinate

We often debate the cause of procrastination. While doing so you inevitably ask yourself, "Why am I putting this off?" The most common answer is probably a lack of purpose.

However, what may really be the problem is a simple lack of planning. We know what it is that we want, where it is we want to go, but because we don’t know how to get there and which route to… Continue reading

February 6 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: planning, procrastinating, procrastination | 1 comment»

GTD? Try WNTGD Instead

I'm amazed at the number of postings and advice articles, let alone pieces of software, that are spawned by the GTD phenomenon. To me, it's yet another symptom of today's short-term mentality and our obsession with activity. Getting Things Done is useful, of course. I'm not without sympathy for people with bulging schedules and huge to-do lists, who seek a better way to organize themselves. But I think they would… Continue reading

September 11 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: accomplishment, achievement, breakthrough, checklists, firstthingsfirst, focus, gtd, Lifehack, objective, procrastinating, procrastination, task, timemanagement, todo, vision | 14 comments»

Procrastinate a Bit

(I'm teasing a bit, based on Leon's post about anti-procrastination) I was surfing a blog that talks about GTD and life, and I read a great post about taking some time to recover and relax. Bryan basically comments about part of David Allen's book, READY FOR ANYTHING, where David discusses finding time to relax: