Day 215: Procrastinating

productivity

Something I’ve experienced many times over the past several weeks:

  • Think of a topic I’m excited to write about for Road to Ramen
  • Brainstorm sections of the post and plan it out in my head
  • Spend all day working on everything except the post
  • Start writing right before going to bed when I’m tired and feeling sluggish
  • Think “I won’t do it justice if I dash something out in the next 10 minutes. I’ll wait so I can do it right.”
  • Write a stream-of-consciousness post about something else entirely
  • Repeat

If I want to prioritize writing, I gotta break this cycle.

Update from following morning:

The nice part about explicitly identifying some behavior I want to change and writing about it is that it sets a powerful intention to do something about it. Going to start writing before 5pm so we’ll see how that goes!