If you want something to be done, do it now. Even with zero motivation. You just need to do it. I don’t know why procrastination has been a part of our daily lives, making it seem like the threshold of our tendencies of empty moments where we are supposed to be doing the thing. No matter how big or small your tasks are, if you don’t do them even if you have some spare time, you’re losing not just that moment but also the opportunity to make the best of that task.
We hide ourselves in the guise of reading self-help books just to authorize that we will do it after we read a motivational line from a chapter or listen to a deep song and wait for that tune to add dopamine to our neural circuits. But you know? It’s not gonna happen if we don’t act. Literally, move and do it. I don’t care if I finished two books by Cal Newport about slow productivity and digital minimalism. If it means I am still on the verge of procrastination and hoping to make a thing of quality, I am wasting my time. Nor do I appreciate it if I use my screen seldomly but cannot get up from bed early to eventually check my to-do lists.
In the pursuit of doing something, we obsess about preparing ourselves with unrealistic expectations and even steps, making us, in the end, not do anything at all.
Maybe we can simplify it to omit all possible destructions? Anything that steals your time, even if it is just 1 minute. I heard somewhere that your 5 minutes is so important because these minutes will likely make the rest of your day. So, lock it before these moments sift through your fingers.
Now, I grabbed my phone just to write this note because if I don’t, it will take me another three weeks to write in my blog unless I find another article and reuse it to share with you….
Now, I am encouraging you to stand up and do that, whatever it is!! Just do it now! If you’re just thinking about doing it, you’re already late. So imagine how many moments you can save if you just start. No, it doesn’t have to be perfect; just begin. Along the way, the knots and mess will be a straight, smooth thread of tasks’ finished, making you feel good because you know finally, after some hard battle with your procrastination friend, you are productive again.
And I know, like me, you went back to square one again of trying to be productive, but hey, it is not late to begin again, all over again. This time. Intentionally.
Do it, even if it means you will disappear for three months.