Productivity Over Procrastination

Welcome to the figuring it out series. In this series, I will walk you through the choices and insights that are helping me along my mental health journey.

Figuring It Out

Ms. P and I have a toxic relationship. I try to break up with procrastination every year, yet, I continue to revert to the same mess and stress. Simply put, I struggle to keep up with mundane tasks in my life. This typically involves the things I do not want to do and would have no motivation for like coursework, laundry, or dishes. Over the past few months, I've been working on this and trying to figure out how to tackle my tasks in an efficient enough time for myself.

I tried something new wrapped in something old. I keep a weekly habit tracker in my journal. I use it to track small things like taking my vitamins, being creative, how much I'm reading, or even how many full nights of rest I had. Any small task that helps me toward a goal goes on my list of trackers for that month. I try to keep the number of habits I'm tracking to a maximum of four per week to limit brain clutter.

This week, I decided to write down No Procrastination as one of my four habits to track. Results: I got a ton of stuff done. However, there was not a single day that I did not procrastinate on at least one thing. I took this as a win because I completed 90% of my tasks. That's an A in my book. But I learned this week that I did not want to use negative language in my habit tracking. While I'd like to reduce certain habits, I would rather focus on increasing the good habits. So next week, I will write I completed (x) to-dos on my habit tracker instead of no procrastination to see how I fair.

Question of the week:
Are your short-term goals both challenging and attainable?

As always, give yourself grace and keep figuring things out.