How to Avoid Productive Procrastination

 

“An addiction to distraction, is the end of your creative production”

Overview

Have you ever found yourself scrolling on your for you page and watching all these videos of people being “productive”. You send all your time online, learning ways to make your own life productive, and without realizing, you have begun to productively procrastinate. Productive Procrastination happens when you spend all your time learning tips and tricks on how to be productive without ever actually putting them into practice. 

What is productive procrastination and what does it look like?

Let’s say you have a big test coming up and you know you’re not so great at preparing for tests so you go online and you search “how to study efficiently”. You end up taking notes, and when the video is over you click on the next one, and then the next one, and so on. The next thing you know a couple hours have passed and you still haven’t begun studying for that big test. This is productive procrastination.

What causes productive procrastination?

Productive procrastination like many other forms of distractions are caused by our inability to focus on the task at hand. The thing that makes productive procrastination different though is that rather than feeling like we haven’t done anything like regular procrastination, we feel like we were actually being productive just not on the right thing. Thus, we continue to watch more and more videos of how to better our lives and reach peak productive levels.

How can I avoid productive procrastination?

Just like any other thing we want to avoid we must set boundaries, focus on one thing you learned online about being productive and put it into practice. Avoid overloading your brain with too much information from all the tips you have received. You want to really focus on true productivity, not ways to productively procrastinate from what really matters,

Conclusion

In general, we should really just pay attention to how much time we are spending online whether that be as productive procrastination or just straight up procrastination. We should also be aware of how much of the information we’re receiving we’re actually putting into practice.