Everyone delays.

Including me in wanting to save a rough draft of this simple linkblog post until a later time when I could write/re-edit/insert-excuse-here.

In doing so it reminded me of how I used to handle Procrastination.

I’d Procrastinate… Later.

How?

When facing ANY moment where making a decision to start to do and complete something, I immediately made a best-guess of how long the doing would take.

With that length of doing time now estimated, I allowed myself, at most, an equal amount of delaying time.

Hence, if a task took 5 minutes to do, I could at most delay for an additional 5 minutes beforehand. And then I made it a Personal Law that I must get started and then finish the task.

Time cost for the task? Altogether, 10 minutes. Tops.

This was derived from my habit of writing down the estimated time commitment beside each item on my daily To Do List, and then re-prioritizing the entire list’s contents from that point of view.

Here’s the link to the Guardian Article, Breaking up is hard to do. But procrastinating doesn’t make it easier which kicked off this blog post, some 28 minutes ago