Hey everyone,
You know that feeling when you have thirty different things on your to-do list that you needed to get done yesterday, and that you were so excited about when you decided to do them, but just make you feel blechhh now?
When this happens—and it seems to happen a bit more regularly now that my living room is doing double duty as a school (yay, remote learning!)—I do the most logical thing anyone can do in this situation.
Want to know what it is?
I list out all the things I have to do, including the small ones that would take a minute but that I’m procrastinating on, I order the list by number, then I go to random.org, put in the number of items on my list and let it tell me which one to tackle.
That’s it. My incredibly complicated and trademarked system.
It picks a number, I suck it up and do 10 minutes of the task, then I decide whether to continue or pick a new task.
Granted, this is an inefficient and extremely unproductive way to work, but my goal when I’m in this state is often not to be productive but just to get started. Or make some amount of headway with the things I know I need to do and just can’t be bothered to. The list forces my hand, but for such a short time that it doesn’t feel too dreadful.
And sometimes, after 10 minutes, I’m actually enjoying the task and keep going with it until it’s done.
So that’s how I’ve been working today. This task came up from my list 10 minutes ago and now it’s done.
For more productivity tips, don’t forget to tune in tomorrow! 😉
Cheers,
Natasha