Time Management Research (Recorded in SketchBook)

The research I’ve gathered is secondary taken from various web pages. I did find some pretty interesting stuff though, on planning yourself and some people’s experiences as well.

The main point I’ve got from this research is Procrastination. I’d heard the term before but never really understand it. Procrastination though, is essentially putting off certain tasks in favour of doing something more desirable such as.. nothing. There’s two type of procrastinators though, those who do nothing and those that put off smaller work for bigger work. If I’m being honest I will sometimes sit down and within no time find that 2-3 hrs have just disappeared but in most cases I think the second point is true as well.

Key Points on Procrastination
• Procrastination isn’t always bad; in fact it can be very good.
• Good procrastination is avoiding errands to do real work.
• Pays off to put off errands to do real work that need doing. If a project inspires you, it can be a win to blow off everything else your working on to complete it. Yes, those errands may cost you more time when you finally get around to them. But if you get a lot done during those few a days, you will be more productive.
• It’s not curable it’s work-able
• The cost of an interruption is not just the time it takes but that breaks the time on either side in half. You probably only have to be interrupted a couple of times a day before your unable to work on hard problems at all.

BAD PROCRASTINATION
• People who fail to write novels don’t do it by sitting in front of a blank page for days without writing anything. They do it by feeding the cat, going out to buy something the y need for their apartment, meeting a friend for coffee, checking mail. “I don’t have time to work,” they say. And they don’t they’ve made sure of that.



Really liking the idea of using procrastination in some way. It seems like something that really resonates with a LOT of people and would be really good to work with.

Help show the two types of procrastinators and push towards the good. It’s maybe not the best ideas to put off small tasks but if I angled it towards, ‘do some work instead of cleaning’ it keeps it away from graphics. Don’t really want to say do CTS, do some REAL work, however true that is.