How to do work you don’t want to do…

Procrastination only happens when you have something you don’t really want to do. Surely you want it done, but you don’t want to go through the process of doing it for various reasons.

Here’s a trick I use that has proved to be helpful.

Put a time limit on the task you need to accomplish.

It sounds so simple but I don’t think a lot of us are doing it. That’s why deadlines are so powerful at killing procrastination.

Don’t want to prepare for an interview? Don’t want to edit a video? Don’t want to read through the DMV manual? Whatever it is that you don’t want to do, but need to get done, give it a time constraint.

2 hours. This is how long I’m going to be dealing with this task and once it’s been 2 hours, I’m moving on to do something I enjoy more. Make this promise to yourself and get started.

Putting this into practice actually requires good planning. But once you plan it, stick with it and when you feel the voice in your head telling you to get on Netflix instead, tell yourself that you can do that in 2 hours. 2 hours can’t be that bad.

Let me know how it works out for you if you decide to try it!