The path to completion is so much more valuable to me. The completion is just a social reward (and yeah maybe I often fear the 'what to do next' desert). I'm fine with it.Īs soon as I realize that particular job is more fun 'not to be completed' but because it allows me to learn more, share with others, discover techniques and occasionally strange weird reasons (wage?)! I'm just trying to say that maybe it could be the nature of the work and how we see it.įor example I am one of those who have really a lot of never-ending-awesome-side-projects. These maxims sound to me like if the job is not done it's the worker who got a problem and need to change. The Chomsky quote wasn't just about that psychotherapist maxim, it's that one that made me tilted. Yep, I'm aware that those 'basic truths' are valuable and I don't say otherwise. Thanks for the David Foster Wallace, I doesn't know that guy, I will look deeper into it. For us procrastinators, it's like starting a workout routine after your BMI has hit the ceiling - you need a system, and you need a system that you'd actually enjoy if you want to stick to it!

I've noticed most organized/ disciplined folks just do this automatically. Have a daily standup where you discuss what you planned to do yesterday, what you did, and what you plan to do today. Everybody needs a place where they can go, zone in and get work done. Make sure you don't have any meetings or distractions lined up during and at least an hour before your zone time. For me, I've noticed that I'm most charged up for creative work later in the evening. Plan your backlog so you have a mix of high, medium and low complexity stuff on your plate. Keep adding the new stuff into this as they come, and spend a couple of hours once a week running through this.

It might be a note or a sheet on Excel - but always have a list of things that need to get done. So the trick is to simply fill your bucket with things you genuinely enjoy.

We always find time to do things we love doing. A couple of things I've noticed about myself and the teams I've worked with: I've had to struggle with procrastination since highschool (now 10+ yrs in the workforce).

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