Beat Procrastination Today

[MarkBruns]

We do not procrastinate. Ever.

We REFUSE to.

That is all because we work at the discipline of not falling into that trap each day, every day.

We beat procrastination because we deliberately train every single day with an understanding that procrastination will haunt us ... if we are not DILIGENT in beat the demon of procrastination.

The reason why we cannot ignore the procrastion demon is that people do things will tend to have things they must do, things which dominate their days because they are focused those few top five or twenty-five or FEW things which dominate their mindshare.

But people who do things will also have projects that sit on the backburner ... perhaps hundreds of them ... that is how the creative ideation process works; there are continually new ideas, new products, new projects.

Wage slaves or contract-for-hire professionals do NOT really understand this -- they do not have to. They just work at the gig which "employs" them according to their boss's priorities. People with that mindset might have the one BIG IDEA per month or year ... and when that BIG IDEA comes along that month, they will imagine they should patent the idea ... and they will generally hide ideas from others, using the excuse that "knowledge is power" or their franchise as a professional is based on them "knowing things."

But creative developers tend to have BIGGER, BUT POSSIBLY MORE NEBULOUS IDEAS every few minutes.

That kind of natural, inherent brainstorming process NECESSITATES a constant backburnering of ideas ... without a practical, effective way of backburnering ideas, creative developers will succumb to ADHD ... or they will need to take drugs to carpetbomb their vibrant neurological jungle of ideas back into the stone age .

Usually, the tendency to sort of lose shit on the backburner arises out of the undisputable reason that completion of the project simply cannot be top priority YET ... we might be waiting for specific resources ... we don't have financing for everything ... we have not yet carved out the time to just get at it ... perhaps, some other event has to happen first before we can begin ... as Isamo Noguchi would say, the big rock has not yet told us what kind of sculpture it wants to be, so we need to listen and have long conversations with the big rock.

The POINT here is that FIRST OF ALL we need to STOP beating ourselves up for backburnering projects.

Backburnering projects is A NECESSITY!

However, MANAGING the backburner according to OUR values and OUR priorities is OUR responsibility. We need to clarify exactly what is our responsibility and what is not.

When we are in relationships, we NEED TO manage our backburner projects together OR ELSE we need to find ways to de-escalate that relationship back down to that point where we are just friends ... people who just friends do not have accounts to balance OR unfinished, open-ended projects to manage together ... being in a RELATIONSHIP with somebody else means that there are projects.

When we have backburner projects, it is essential to invest some time each day in priorization and curation of a LIST of the the top 200 or so backburner projects which you that should finish, eliminate, repair, 5S, or develop a plan for ... the goal of this exercise is to have a plan for every project, but new projects will crop up.

It is essential that we DO AT LEAST ONE TEDIOUS, NAGGING THING WE GENERALLY DISPISE DOING each day ... for AT LEAST 25 minutes ... when we don't have some sort of approaching deadline, we can time limit our misery or disgust with the tedium ... but IF that one thing not something you must finish -- be sure to spend at least 25 minutes, doing shit you really don't like doing to just put a dent in the damn thing.

If you have a DEADLINE ... then it's actually way EASIER ... this is how lazy people do things, they just put it off until the pressure of the approaching deadlines makes it so they HAVE TO do things ... so they dump their stupid shit on somebody else -- that's why tax accountants and lawyers get paid.