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Originally Posted by ViceVirtue  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?
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Hi ViceVirtue (Interesting choice of usid
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I think GTD would help you.
I am reading it at the moment and I am already seeing how much of an idiot I have been by doing the unproductive things to 'feel' as if I'm doing productive, when in fact I'm not.
Also, have you tried Steve Pavlina's concept of time boxing? With this you are only commiting a small time segment to a task. However as is often the case, the motivation, once you have started, is self-generating and you might be amazed at what you can achieve.
Try this with something you have REALLY been putting off. Say to yourself that you will give it 15 mins (set a clock) and if after 15 mins at it you want to quit...then quit. But you might find that you will wonder what the fuss was all about!
