This thread refers to an article by Steve Pavlina at
http://www.stevepavlina.com/articles...astination.htm
FWIW, searching on the title
"Overcoming Procrastination" on amazon will yield many, many different books by the same name. A similar situation exists for articles found via google.
I guess the anti-procrastination authors decided not to procrastinate and waste time by coming up with unique titles
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Anyway...., it has been a while since I read this article, but I remember a tip in it that I have been thinking about using.
The tip is to schedule guaranteed time off....one full day per week, as well scheduling "fun" activities first and scheduling some guaranteed "off" time each day.
The reasoning being that if you know you are going to get good/fun/off time you will not feel as trapped by a schedule and you will be more likely to sit down and do what you scheduled yourself to do.
When I have thought about trying this out I have overwhelmed myself into not doing it by trying to decide what time to take off. I will either think some off time is too much, too little, or at the wrong time.
I guess the thing to do is to start off with a small amount of guaranteed off/fun time, expanding/shrinking and rescheduling it as I see how I respond to things.
I have nothing to lose by experimentation as I have not done any "work" on some projects in my "spare time" at all for the reasons described in the article.
Anyway, I was hoping for some thoughts or tips on using this tactic.