Sometimes (super often for me), we find ourselves involved in unimportant things. We only can do one thing at a time. I think it’s good to do important stuff. If you’re with me, here’s what’s good.
We do this stuff people call “procrastinating” because the cost of doing the good thing seems too high. There are lots of things we can do when cost seems high. Instead of figuring all that out, let’s just get started again on the good thing.
⏱️ Set a timer.
We can set a timer on the phone “hey siri, twenty minutes” … then keep on doing the procrastinating thing until the alarm goes off. This is the way to get away from…
- doom scrolling
- playing a game
- cleaning up too much
- searching netflix
- watching dumb videos
- watching smart videos about unimportant things
- doing work that’s tertiary
We can set a calendar date for…
- quitting a day job that’s taking energy from our work
- quitting a volunteer position
- moving from a home that’s a drag
- firing an employee
We need these delays
We use them for coping, for resetting, for processing the big stuff. We just want to make sure that the coping is the right size in our lives. This is a way of using Parkinson’s Law. Get it done. Get it out of the way… then make the world a better place!