Fighting with procrastination

Why did I choose procrastination for todays topic? It is a little sneaky monster I am (or maybe we all are) fighting with. With the blog writing I have managed to be surprisingly consistent, I wrote a post on every Sunday or latest on Monday. Not always at the same time, but it was done. Except for the last week. Since the sequence broke, I lost the motivation to pick up the line again. The past week I just finished a book called The power of 1% by Luca Mazzucchelli (see more about this book in the Book club). It made me realize, that habits formed in a good way can help us to beat the beast of procrastination. My main problem was, that the blog writing did not become a habit. I have to find a time, place or activity to make it work. By finding the time, I could set a timer for every Sunday for 50 minutes of writing. By finding a place, I could say, that every time, when I sit in a particular café, the library, or a specific place in my house, I write the blog, regardless what time it is. As a third method, I could connect is to another activity, for example to write after I am ready with my workout. According to my previous experiences, a combination of these methods leads to success. The time doesn’t mean always certain hours for me, but maybe only a daily frame. The place in this case doesn’t mean a certain phisycal space, rather that I write on my computer instead of my notebook. Currently the third ( and for me actually the strongest) part is missing, this writing is not linked consciously to any of my other activities. It is one of my “homeworks” for next week, I shall think about it and find a really good spot for writing, so I can beat procrastination again and again. This beast always comes back and you can’t do any better, than to continue fighting!

Thank you for reading, see you in the next post!