Overcome procrastination by working on your top task for just five minutes
Ada Chen Rekhi · How to make better decisions and build a joyful career | Ada Chen Rekhi (Notejoy, LinkedIn) · Apr 16, 2023 · at 1:15:43
Executive coach Ada Chen Rekhi shares her top productivity framework for overcoming procrastination and initiating high-priority work.
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“Figure out, maybe the night before, The one thing that you want to get done in your day. And then at the earliest opportunity, just try to give yourself five minutes on it. Just five minutes. And the reason why I say five minutes is that there is sort of this challenge that I experienced and maybe other people experience as well, which is really just like productive procrastination. Even though I know something is really important that needs to get done, I will often do other things that are useful and need to get done simply because I'm avoiding that one thing. And then before you know it, it's the end of the day, and I'm like, I still have to go do that thing. By really focusing on what's the number one thing, and then just getting started on it a little bit, it just makes it really lightweight, and usually what I find is that five minutes turns into a solid hour, just knocking that thing out early in my day, and I feel really accomplished, but it's a mental hurdle that I really struggle with.”
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