Consciously Procrastinating
As I mentioned in my last post, there are things that you can do to use procrastination as a stepping stone. The first way is to consciously put something off. If you look at your to-do list, you’ll probably see some things there that don’t need to be accomplished immediately and some might not ever need to be done although you might consider everything there to be important.
Take a step back, relax, and look closer. What do you see? You might see your responsibilities as the important things, but what about the personal items on your to-do list? They can be important too. Look at the things that you’ve been procrastinating on. As you do, you might see things that aren’t related to your values or intentions. There might be a better way for you to reach your intention. In this case, it’s time to stop and think about other ways to reach your intention. This would be more productive than having something on your list that you are destructively procrastinating on. Here, you’re making a conscious choice to put something off to find a more suitable goal. Doing so contributes to your productivity. Remember, this is a conscious choice to put something off for a specific reason, not to procrastinate in a destructive manner.