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How to Beat Procrastination

Part 2. Where does a procrastinator go wrong and how can you actually improve your procrastination habits?

Good and Bad Procrastination

Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control) (Published 2019)

If procrastination isn’t about laziness, then what is it about?

Laziness Does Not Exist

Psychological research is clear: when people procrastinate, there's usually a good reason

Why Procrastinators Procrastinate

The full story about why procrastinators routinely ruin their own lives.

How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model - Part 2.

In the previous post we covered the B J Fogg model of behavior: Behavior = Motivation * Ability * Prompt

Why I Procrastinate

A look into me, my awful procrastination habit, and how I fixed it. (spoiler alert: it was ADHD)

Feeling unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking.

In order to get something done, maybe we need to think less.

The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do and What to Do About It

Plus, 3 strategies to help you start beating procrastination now.

Productivity

I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips.  So I decided to just write them all down in one place. Compound growth gets...

How to be more productive without forcing yourself

Imagine you could work more and be wildly productive. And you wouldn’t need to force yourself to work.

It's getting harder to focus every day

I’m feeling it right now. I had to set a timer for 15 minute on my computer and block all distractions to write this. If I didn’t force myself to focus I would easily get distracted by something after few minutes. Even when I’m doing things that I’ve been waiting to do it, I still feel the urge to do something else. I don’t know how and when this happened. During the last few years I was always studying, working, and doing open source. And actually got stuff done. Doing all of those at the same time requires paying attention to what I wanted to do and ignore the noise.

How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model

B J Fogg is a Stanford professor who came up with a simple model of behavior that helps us understand why we take action or not take action at any given moment.

My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file

The biggest transition for me when I started college was learning to get organized. There was a point when I couldn't just remember everything in my head. And having to constantly keep track of things was distracting me from whatever task I was doing at the moment.

The 10 Best Practices for Remote Software Engineering

At face value, when we think of developer productivity we might think of effectiveness in time management, communication, and task completion.14 Although we are drawn to personal workflow or time management tools, and learning secrets to improving our productivity, ironically this quest for the holy grail can sometimes take us off course and be a detriment to our productivity. The problem is that accomplishing tasks or having a filled up schedule does not necessarily equate to productivity. Creating a formulaic working strategy, as was common in the last century, does not either.a,8,13 Productivity is less a quality that can be easily measured,b controlled, or improved directly with tools, but instead is a human element that manifests from developer happiness.

Efficiency is the Enemy

If you ever find yourself stressed, overwhelmed, sinking into stasis despite wanting to change, or frustrated when you can’t respond to new opportunities, you need more slack in your life. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it.