Are you guilty of procrastiworking?
A lot of traditional advice for procrastination online is based on the assumption that people are completely unable to do work and need strategies to get started on their projects. These strategies suggest using timers, telling friends about your goals or give yourself rewards.
This ignores people who are more perfectionistic, who often have a subtle type of procrastination know as ‘procrastiworking’. Procrastiworking is a term coined by Jessica Hische, and refers to avoiding tasks you should be doing by doing less important tasks.
This may involve cleaning your house, dashing from one task to the next without finishing things, prioritising tasks that feel more comfortable (but don’t move the needle on your goals) and not being able to switch off from work (getting to feel busy but not actually doing anything to make a dent in things that really matter). This can mean you lose focus on what is actually important.
If this sounds like you, try to focus on which tasks on your ‘to do list’ you feel are most uncomfortable. These are often the ‘needle movers’ and get you closer to your goal. They often don’t even take that much time, they are just super uncomfortable.