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How to Self-Sabotage Your Own Productivity (Hint: Don’t Do This)
If the coronavirus has taught me anything, it’s that I can turn myself into a lazy piece of shit who doesn’t want to do anything, at-will, on whatever day of the week I please.
Fortunately, it only took me a week of WFH to reverse engineer the recipe and stop self-sabotaging myself.
If for whatever reason I actually WANT to have a completely unproductive, lethargic day binge-watching Netflix, here’s all I need to do:
Note: don’t do these
1. Sleep in til 9am
Nothing screws my day up more than rolling my ass out of bed at 9am. Turns out, the mornings are the most important part of my day because they’re when:
- I have the most desire to work
- My creativity is highest
- Distractions are at a minimum
When I’m not productive first thing in the morning, I miss out on the few good hours I have to work on my most important stuff, and the rest of my day tumbles downhill.
2. Not have a plan
If I don’t know what I’m supposed to be working on, I procrastinate. Period.
At the onset of my new WFH situation, I didn’t keep up with my typical productivity…
