I love this thought from James Clear: The work you do when you procrastinate is probably the work you should do every day forever.
We have this certain vision of what productive work is supposed to look like. Creating new products and services, meeting with others to move a vision for the future or some other new initiative along, checking in on the team, and assuring quality outputs.
But the reality is that we all often avoid a lot of work we need to be doing. We don’t avoid it by staring out the window aimlessly for hours. We even don’t avoid it by scrolling on social media.
We avoid it by doing other work.
What is that other work, and why is it attractive enough to keep you busy procrastinating when you don’t feel like doing what you need to do?
That other work is your security blanket, your comfort mechanism, your escape. Why treat it as such when it could become the core of what you do all day every day?
This is a somewhat crazy way of thinking about our work, and certainly, we can never entirely avoid tasks we just don’t want to do. But… how can you increase the number of tasks, or even change your entire job, to the things you use to procrastinate?
I don’t know if this makes you cry, makes you think, or makes you want to procrastinate, but there’s a kernel of truth that’s worth exploring in this. Good luck!
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