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ViceVirtue · 11-11-2006, 10:05 PM

It's 5pm saturday afternoon here, and my day has been almost a complete waste. There are numerous things, big and small, that I could have been doing, but I've spent most of my time avoiding them. Instead I've been "relaxing" with some tv, the internet, taking a nap, etc. I did manage to do the dishes and laundry, but I could probably name off 10 more tasks that would be benefitial to do from exercising to selling some things on eBay - things I decided to sell a year ago. Probably only 20 minutes of my day have been spent doing something productive and worthwhile! Help!

I think this all comes down to motivation/procrastination and I'm really struggling in this department. It frustrates me at times because I know I'm wasting so much of my day, but when it comes to the choice of doing something productive vs. unproductive, I usually find myself on the unproductive side.

Anyone have any tips or recommendations on how I can become motivated to make use of my day by accomplishing various tasks that need to be done rather than just wasting it away?

Side-question: There's a lot of talk about the book "Getting Things Done" on this forum. I get the sense that it's really designed for the person who has an overwhelming amount of things to do and needs a system to help organize the chaos - not for someone like me who really has a low-moderate amount of things to do and just needs the motivation to actually do them. Is this a fair assessment? Is GTD a book that could help me?

Thanks!

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ViceVirtue Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Melbourne, FL Posts: 18	The motivation to get things done It's 5pm saturday afternoon here, and my day has been almost a complete waste. There are numerous things, big and small, that I could have been doing, but I've spent most of my time avoiding them. Instead I've been "relaxing" with some tv, the internet, taking a nap, etc. I did manage to do the dishes and laundry, but I could probably name off 10 more tasks that would be benefitial to do from exercising to selling some things on eBay - things I decided to sell a year ago. Probably only 20 minutes of my day have been spent doing something productive and worthwhile! Help! I think this all comes down to motivation/procrastination and I'm really struggling in this department. It frustrates me at times because I know I'm wasting so much of my day, but when it comes to the choice of doing something productive vs. unproductive, I usually find myself on the unproductive side. Anyone have any tips or recommendations on how I can become motivated to make use of my day by accomplishing various tasks that need to be done rather than just wasting it away? Side-question: There's a lot of talk about the book "Getting Things Done" on this forum. I get the sense that it's really designed for the person who has an overwhelming amount of things to do and needs a system to help organize the chaos - not for someone like me who really has a low-moderate amount of things to do and just needs the motivation to actually do them. Is this a fair assessment? Is GTD a book that could help me? Thanks!