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Discussion on: How do you limit or avoid procrastination?

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Paul Danyliuk

There’s no silver bullet, and I’m certainly not in position to advice anything because I’m the biggest procrastinator in the world.

But take a look at this technique I once came up with and just recently turned into a Coda doc:

👉 coda.io/d/Build-a-productive-habit...

While most habit-building techniques are more or less based on streaks and "not breaking the chain", mine is a bit different and I'd say more humane. It has a carrot-and-stick system that:

  • makes you set a manageable daily goal
  • encourages you to work beyond the goal
  • punishes you for not meeting the goal
  • is still forgiving if you cannot meet the goal for the day, as long as you’ve been exceeding your goals before.

It helped me before, it is helping me now to some extent. Maybe it’ll help you.