Earlier in the month I knew I was in a procrastination mode, and had decided to use the time "productively" doing some other things that I wanted to get done.
Well, that was on Tuesday. So by the time Thursday rolled around and I STILL wasn't in production mode, quite frankly I actually got depressed. Down right depressed.
Then I launched into completely beating myself up because hey, that's what I do, apparently.
What I finally decided to do was write down the major topics of every thing on my mind, and then right down every action item that I could think of that was associated with them.
I did this in Excel, and some of my topics were:
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finish newsletters for designers to use
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update website
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prepare for mastermind call
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finish "what should I say when" product
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finish client kitchen remodel elevations
Then, under each heading, I wrote down every thought I had about that topic.
So underneath finish "what should I say project" I wrote:
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design cover sheet
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format tutorial
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add footer to every page
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prepare a press release
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etc
Perhaps surprisingly, this took me two full hours to do! And man alive, is the list lllloooonnnnggggg.
But here's the good news. Once I had the list together (which by the way, changes and grows and shrinks daily!) I suddenly had a bunch of action items that I could actually work on – and guess what, I finally got to work!
So MAYBE next time when I get frozen… I won't wait FIVE FULL DAYS to get moving… maybe next time I will immediately go to my "new process." And do a complete brain dump on paper, get it all out of my head, get unfrozen, and get going!
It's a nice thought, isn't it??!
Let me know if this process can work for you!
Have a great week!
-Mary
PS – I have to say, maybe there is a piece of me that procrastinated so long because I didn't want to KNOW how much work was really in front of me??
Thoughts to ponder….
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