What is Your Procrastination Trying to Tell You?
I’ve been thinking a lot about procrastination lately (insert procrastination joke here!).
In Laziness Does Not Exist, author Devon Price describes procrastinators getting caught "in a cycle of perfectionism, anxiety, distraction, and failure". He explains that procrastinators care about doing well, so they hold themselves to an impossibly high standard.
This pressure often makes it harder to start, leading to avoidance and assumptions that by procrastinating, we are being lazy and useless—but what if procrastination was actually helpful?
In her book, Tiny Experiments, Anne-Laure Le Cunff argues procrastination isn’t the moral failing we’ve been led to believe it is. Instead, she describes it as a "listening failure". She explains, "The problem with procrastination is not that you have been lazy. The problem is that you shot the messenger".
If you can examine your procrastination without judgment—without feeling like a failure—you’ll gather helpful information to enable you to overcome your roadblock.
What is your procrastination trying to tell you?
