Sublime

procrastination. In ancient Egypt, there were two different verbs for procrastination: one denoted laziness; the other meant waiting for the right time.

the reason for the delay is not usually laziness or unwillingness. The reason is more often that the necessary knowledge has not been translated into a simple, usable, and systematic form.

Do it Delegate it Defer it Drop

must wait until one of the three items has been completed, thereby freeing up a slot. (It’s also permissible to free up a slot by abandoning a project altogether if it isn’t working out. The point isn’t to force yourself to finish absolutely everything you start, but rather to banish the bad habit of keeping an ever-proliferating number of half-fin

Many of us end up skipping tasks we mark important because we don’t fully buy into our own importance rating.

“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.” —Jessica Hische

if a task will take longer than a minute or two to do, don’t do it now unless it’s authentically urgent. Instead, add it to your task list and consider it later, along with everything else already on your prioritized list. Postponing allows the natural importance decay to reveal itself, and that decreases the number of low-value tasks we end up doi