Procrastination (MoC) - DeveloPassion

# Procrastination (MoC) ## Notes   - [[Avoiding hard work]] - [[Bikeshedding]] - [[Don't overthink your note taking system]] - [[Don't question your tooling choices too often]] - [[Get Your Shit Together (GYST)]] - [[It's a Tool, Not a Goal - Why Your PKM System Should Stay Simple (Article)]] - [[Map of procrastination]] - [[Overcoming Perfectionism - How to Break Free from the Enemy of Progress (Article)]] - [[Parkinson’s law of triviality]] - [[Pattern of Procrastination (PoP)]] - [[Procrastination in disguise]] - [[Procrastination is a silent message from our brains]] - [[Psychology of procrastination]] - [[The most important task is often the most uncomfortable and most procrastinated upon]] - [[The mythical right time - Don't Wait to Chase Your Dreams (Article)]] - [[The value of smaller goals]] - [[There is a choice between not doing and feeling bad and doing and maybe failing]] - [[To make progress, set the bar lower]] - [[Why focusing on less leads to more]]  ## Quotes   - [[Avoid falling into the trap of focusing too much on the system, and too little on get value out of it]] - [[Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid only of standing still]] - [[Clutter is nothing more than postponed decisions]] - [[Do things when you don't feel like doing them]] - [[Exploring tools and their features is often procrastination in disguise]] - [[For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned]] - [[If there was a pill to cure procrastination, I would probably take it tomorrow]] - [[If you have a plan, then distraction turns into procrastination. You know what you're giving up]] - [[In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business]] - [[It's now or never. If it's not now, it means later. But later could turn into never. Fight against the natural tendency to do stuff 'later']] - [[Just choose a tool and stick with it. Only then will you be productive]] - [[Just do it. Just don't quit]] - [[Learning more is a smart person’s favorite way to procrastinate]] - [[Many people who are obsessed with productivity are actually stuck in a trap of endless optimization. People seem to forget that productivity means getting things done, not just planning to]] - [[Mindless consumption is just procrastination in disguise]] - [[Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow]] - [[Nothing is impossible. But today I did nothing]] - [[Perfectionism is when the subscouscious overvalues the unimportant subtasks in order to postpone task completion and hence the verification of our performance]] - [[Procrastination creates negative momentum. The longer you wait, the harder it becomes to start. Telling yourself you'll do it tomorrow is how dreams die]] - [[Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work]] - [[The greatest trap is telling yourself that you’ll do something important tomorrow]] - [[The magic you’re looking for is in the work you’re avoiding]] - [[The time I kill is killing me]] - [[What matters is not the tools, but what you achieve with those]] - [[What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do]] - [[When you feel like you’re procrastinating, break down tasks into micro-steps Too simple to stall, too quick to quit. Each tick is a win, and a series of ticks is a day well spent]] - [[You feel bad because you know what you’re supposed to do and you aren’t doing it]]