How To Procrastinate The Right Way

MedDora
2 min readNov 30, 2021

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Yes. You read that right and it’s an easy formula too!

Step 1 | Think about it. A lot.

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Is it reading ? Is it exercising maybe? Whatever. Just take a deep breath in and start analyzing what you have to do for at least 1 hour (this is CRUCIAL, the more the better).

After reaching a mental plateau (*cough*..breakdown) begin to brainstorm about each and every thing you have to complete until you are confident enough to proceed to :

Step 2 | The solving phase

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With confidence on your side, start searching up alternative ways to complete your -so far- laconic to-do list created in the previous step. Let me set an example:

Imagine that you have to rock a 40 minutes pilates session video, simply search a 10 minute alternative. Easy peasy 🍋.or 🍰🧁🎂🥮 .WHATEVER . Phew

(At this point you may experience a sudden dopamine rush running down your productive and determined mind, like the ones you get just before tooting)

Step 3 | Zone Out

This one could be rephrased as the rate-limiting-step of the formula (my med student folks, yes, I am talking to you). It means that if you do it correctly the rest is done.

So, let me elaborate on the example above. You found the alternative video right? yay

Now, 💆‍♀️ ahh..this is the time we have all been waiting for:

🥁…drum roll…🥁

*drum roll intensifies*

🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

the drummer lost them drumsticks

punching congas at this point🪘(spoiler alert)

FORGET EVERYTHING ABOUT IT AND START BINGING ON CUTE INDIAN GUYS BUILDING LUXURY PENTHOUSES OUT OF MUD on YouTube.

Troll Ba Dum Tss gif by klubai4 — GIPHY, Imgur

I’ve done it. You can do it too. Let me know if you did. :’)

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MedDora

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