Break the procrastination habit #Habits

13 May 2020 · 1 min

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TJ Walker warns that procrastination is a damaging habit and contrasts common anti-procrastination advice (e.g., breaking tasks into smaller chunks) with his own method: eliminate unnecessary tasks entirely. He recommends refusing socially imposed chores to save time and avoid procrastination, illustrating with a personal example of keeping only two bed pillows to avoid daily pillow maintenance.

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Procrastinating is one of the worst habits you can have. Now, you've probably heard techniques on how to avoid procrastination, like break things down into simple chunks. All good advice, but one technique I use that's pretty effective is I figure out a way of simply not doing things. I don't like to do things that society tells us we have to do. Now, of course I have to pay my taxes. But there are other things you can avoid if you don't want to do them. I had an interior Decorator Tell me 15 years ago, TJ you have to have lots and lots of fluffy pillows, decorative pillows on your bed. Why? I can't stand it. I don't want to spend time taking pillows on and off every single day. Guess what? On my bed, only two pillows, one for each head. Thankfully my wife agrees with this philosophy, so we save a lot of time. We don't have to procrastinate on putting pillows up and down, we just eliminate them.