Yol · 12 Stations · 12 days · Personal Growth › Productivity
Stop Procrastinating
Someone who starts: knows procrastination is fear rather than laziness, keeps every open loop in one trusted place, eats the frog first, commits to thirty minutes instead of to finishing, and ships rough drafts.
Twelve Stations, one a day, from six books: why you put things off, the Unschedule, the frog, capturing everything, the next action, thirty-minute starts, Resistance, turning pro, making starting easy, protecting the block, the perfectionism trap. It ends with a one-page starting system built to run for a month.
The road, station by station
01Procrastination is not laziness
~5 minfrom The Now Habit
Today’s Station — start →
02The Unschedule
lockedfrom The Now Habit
03Eat the frog first
lockedfrom Eat That Frog!
04Capture everything
lockedfrom Getting Things Done
05The next action
lockedfrom Getting Things Done
06Start for thirty minutes
lockedfrom The Now Habit
Milestone
Five starts
Your target for the week ahead: at least five thirty-minute starts recorded on the Unschedule, and the frog eaten first on five mornings. Not a finished thesis; the file you avoided for a month, opened and worked on five times.
07Resistance
lockedfrom The War of Art
08Turn pro
lockedfrom The War of Art
09Make starting easy
lockedfrom Atomic Habits
10Protect the block
lockedfrom Deep Work
11The perfectionism trap
lockedfrom The Now Habit
12Your starting system
lockedfrom The Now Habit
Milestone
Destination: Someone who starts
Your one-page starting system written and running, with a four-week test ahead: the thing you avoided for a month moving in thirty-minute starts or already out as a rough draft, and the weekly review booked. Not someone who never procrastinates; someone procrastination no longer wins against.