Everybody and I mean everybody procrastinates sometimes it's not the end of the world. The trick is you've got to figure out how do you not let it destroy your day, or your week or your month. One tactic I use is to just start off by doing something that's easy. Now that goes against conventional wisdom. The so called experts in productivity, many of them stress, eat the frog do the most difficult task first, then everything seems easy. And if you can get yourself to do that, by all means, do it.
But sometimes, I'm not that motivated. I'm assuming you aren't either. I do recommend trying to do some tasks that are relatively easy. There are always things that you need to do. They're not critical today or this moment, but you need to do them and if you can get that done, then that's something checked off the list. For me that includes things like lit just checking LinkedIn to see if I have any messages there I need to respond to not often I get important messages.
But once a day spending 30 seconds 60 seconds there is something I need to do. Same with Twitter. I'm not a huge power Twitter user. But every so often I'll have a prospect or a client trying to reach out to me through Twitter or someone will tweet something and mention me that I need to respond to. These are things I could do where I am sort of getting into the work day, getting going. If I'm a little bit sleepy or not 100% motivated.
It still gets me going. Checking Twitter, checking LinkedIn, checking Facebook business page, making sure those things are set making sure any comments left on my YouTube channel had been responded to. These are basic nuts and bolts things that are not going to make my business or make my career. But you have to do at some point. So if you need to sort of get going during the day, figure out what are the useful things you need to do, do those, and then quickly move on to higher level tasks. Because if you're not careful, you can spend the whole day bouncing back and forth between Twitter and Instagram and answering questions from students on a learning platform.
And it's all seems productive to a minor degree, but it doesn't add up too much. So you've got to limit it. Maybe no more than the first 15 or 20, or at most 30 minutes a day before you really dive in to your most productive work. But the principle is don't be afraid to start off with small tasks, even tasks that are not that significant if it helps get you in the groove for the day of producing