Hayden Finch

What a lot of us do when we're dealing with procrastination is we have the idea like, oh, yeah, I need to sit down and go through the mail.

Oh, yeah, I need to get my documents together for my taxes.

We have that idea.

And so we know that we need to do it.

But what keeps us from getting from that idea is

to actually doing it is typically emotional something else comes up that we'd rather do something comes up that seems more important we like something comes up emotionally that kind of takes us off course and that's where we have to kind of put that under a microscope to figure out what happened between the thought i should get my tax documents together and then like the decision to not do it right now and that's where a lot of good work happens

Yeah, so we call this productive procrastination, right?

So I'm procrastinating with something else that also needs to get done, is also important.

It's just maybe not the highest priority right now or not really where I should be putting my time and energy.

And that's a really interesting thing.

So what happens is, say what I really need to be doing is getting my tax documents together.

But instead, what I end up doing is organizing my closet.

When I think about doing my tax documents, there's probably some sort of emotion that comes up in that.

Like, probably they're just like, ugh, that feels like a lot of work, or ugh, I don't really want to do that.

So some kind of emotion comes up in there.

And then I make a decision.

Well, I'm going to do my tax documents anyways, even though I have that feeling.

Or you know what?

I'm going to go organize the closet right now.

I'll come back to this later.