<story><title>Structured Procrastination (1995)</title><url>http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>losteric</author><text>Discipline is the solution.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not being facetious, the bottleneck to individual human productivity is usually the human. Over-planning and focusing on tangential problems are frequently just rationalizing away procrastination... &amp;quot;maybe this mountain of work will take less effort with a better organization system&amp;quot; - probably not.&lt;p&gt;These days I prefer using org-mode for notes, MoSCoW for triaging, and Omnifocus for execution. It took months to become proficient, but now getting in the zone is effortless.</text></item><item><author>edjroot</author><text>Same here, except my urge goes as far as &lt;i&gt;writing&lt;/i&gt; to-do list tools (but obviously never actually getting to the point of having something usable). I guess it&amp;#x27;s easier to blame current solutions for not having {insert essential feature I just came up with that would finally turn me into a productive individual} than actually working with what I have and focusing on what needs to be done.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if there is some kind of all-encompassing solution (software-based or whatever) that actually manages to conduct you into a so-called &amp;quot;flow state&amp;quot; in some way. I&amp;#x27;ve tried automating things like blocking websites, turning the computer off at certain times and so on, but it always either feels too constraining (which just makes me disable everything after some time) or too &amp;quot;manual&amp;quot; (which I never have the discipline to maintain). And ultimately, it doesn&amp;#x27;t really make me want to do the task any more than I would otherwise.</text></item><item><author>marban</author><text>My personal warning sign that I&amp;#x27;m off track is whenever I feel the urge to &lt;i&gt;research&lt;/i&gt; a new to-do list tool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not being facetious, the bottleneck to individual human productivity is usually the human.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This too, is my realization, after a lot of introspection (and observing other people).&lt;p&gt;Sadly, I never learned discipline. Given the anxiety issues I&amp;#x27;m struggling with since late-teen&amp;#x2F;early-adulthood, I can see that my average performance is about 10% of my peak performance.&lt;p&gt;I hear discipline is trainable, but I wasn&amp;#x27;t able to find something I could execute as an adult. I wish there was a training regimen with benefits that transfer to the rest of one&amp;#x27;s life (and not just making someone better at executing the training tasks).</text></comment>
<story><title>Structured Procrastination (1995)</title><url>http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>losteric</author><text>Discipline is the solution.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not being facetious, the bottleneck to individual human productivity is usually the human. Over-planning and focusing on tangential problems are frequently just rationalizing away procrastination... &amp;quot;maybe this mountain of work will take less effort with a better organization system&amp;quot; - probably not.&lt;p&gt;These days I prefer using org-mode for notes, MoSCoW for triaging, and Omnifocus for execution. It took months to become proficient, but now getting in the zone is effortless.</text></item><item><author>edjroot</author><text>Same here, except my urge goes as far as &lt;i&gt;writing&lt;/i&gt; to-do list tools (but obviously never actually getting to the point of having something usable). I guess it&amp;#x27;s easier to blame current solutions for not having {insert essential feature I just came up with that would finally turn me into a productive individual} than actually working with what I have and focusing on what needs to be done.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if there is some kind of all-encompassing solution (software-based or whatever) that actually manages to conduct you into a so-called &amp;quot;flow state&amp;quot; in some way. I&amp;#x27;ve tried automating things like blocking websites, turning the computer off at certain times and so on, but it always either feels too constraining (which just makes me disable everything after some time) or too &amp;quot;manual&amp;quot; (which I never have the discipline to maintain). And ultimately, it doesn&amp;#x27;t really make me want to do the task any more than I would otherwise.</text></item><item><author>marban</author><text>My personal warning sign that I&amp;#x27;m off track is whenever I feel the urge to &lt;i&gt;research&lt;/i&gt; a new to-do list tool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vinceguidry</author><text>Discipline is the solution, with the caveat that the mountain of work needs to actually be worth accomplishing. Procrastination is often the mind&amp;#x27;s way of forcing you to consider your deeper priorities.</text></comment>