Sometimes procrastination looks surprisingly productive.
You sit down to work on the business.
And suddenly…
The laundry needs to be done.
Your inbox could use organizing.
There’s some research you should probably finish.
Maybe you should clean your workspace first.
And none of those things are necessarily bad.
That’s what makes this kind of avoidance so convincing.
You’re doing something useful.
You’re accomplishing things.
You can point to everything you got done.
But there’s still one question worth asking:
Did I do the thing I actually said I was going to do?
Sometimes the task we’re avoiding carries something the other tasks don’t.
Uncertainty.
Fear of failure.
Fear of judgment.
A difficult decision.
The possibility that we might try—and discover we aren’t good at it yet.
So we stay busy somewhere safer.
That doesn’t mean every distraction is secretly psychological resistance. Sometimes the laundry really does need to get done. 😂
But if you repeatedly find y...
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