How To Use Productive Procrastination to Your Advantage | #130

Have you ever found yourself doing the dishes instead of tackling that important project? Or maybe organizing your closet, or suddenly having the urge to spring clean - again - instead of doing the thing that’s on your priority list? Yeah, that’s 100% #relatable. Especially if you have ADHD or other neurotypes prone to executive dysfunction and trouble prioritizing.

When I was a kid and my mom told me to clean my room, I inevitably got distracted by something micro, like alphabetizing my CD collection or making sure my plastic arts and crafts organizer had its drawers separated by category. To my mom, it looked like I was goofing off and ignoring her direction to clean my room. But that WAS cleaning my room. I didn't realize that her version of cleaning my room and mine could be different, but I know now that we were operating from two different scripts. 

I was procrastinating the big-picture room cleaning tasks like making my bed, putting away my belongings, and dusting the surfaces without realizing that I was procrastinating anything at all. In fact, a lot of ADHD procrastination is done while doing something that's actually productive.

If you’ve ever wondered how you can turn your procrastination into a powerful tool for productivity and self-care, then this one’s especially for you. 

Tune into episode 130: How to Use Productive Procrastination to Your Advantage to learn practical tips and celebrate the small wins that can make a big difference in your creative pursuits.

You Will Learn:
How to Harness Productive Procrastination
The Balance Between Rest and Productivity
Sustainable Strategies for Neurodivergent Productivity

Key Points, Quotable Sass, & All That Jazz

Time to bring the fireworks with some seriously sassy key points and memorable quotes from episode 130:

💬 "Celebrating your wins, especially little wins, helps prime your brain to look for things to celebrate, which overall is going to impact your mindset in a huge way."
💬 "The more you are rested, the more productive you will be with the time that you actually have."
💬 "Productive procrastination is when we are procrastinating, but we're doing something that's at least kind of productive."
💬 "If we think about it as less like this is avoidance and more like we're kind of gearing up, it's like a warmup, then we can start to strategize how to productively procrastinate to launch us into the thing that we actually wanted to do in the first place.”

Download the episode transcript here!

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