How to Successfully Procrastinate

Work, work, work. Everyone I know is obsessed with it. People today are too concerned with how they can become more productive. What they really need to learn is how to successfully procrastinate.

I have a full time job, a side project, a magazine to create quarterly, new technologies to tinker with, two boys to raise, soccer practices to attend, and Jiu Jitsu training. People often wonder, how I do it all. One asset I have is my brain which is a tireless master of creation and the other is... well, lets just say there is a fair amount of procrastination involved.

That's right. Procrastination! I read Hacker News at least once a day and sometimes Reddit if I'm really procrastinating. I check Fotoblur's traffic stats on Google Analytics, check Alexa and Compete to see how Fotoblur is doing, browse Fotoblur's top community favorites, find interesting music on YouTube, watch an intersting documentary on Netflix, get lost in Wikipedia in some obscure interest like Myan script structure.

But I never feel guilty about it. Because when I'm done procrastinating there is nothing else to do but the work. I get my magazines done on time, I get my tasks done at work on time, I get to soccer practice on time, and hardly ever miss a training session at the gym. I find procrastination as a mental warmup to whatever it is I need to get done. Call it a subconscious planning session.

You are not an automaton, so don't think you can work like one. Procrastinate and don't feel bad about it...you'll get things done.