This Simple Journal Hack Might Be the Cure for Procrastination and Task Paralysis
<p>It’s all </p>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/u/78921ddacb9a?source=post_page-----98baf5ea3eb0--------------------------------" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Tara McMullin</a></p>
<p>’s fault.</p>
<p>I’ve been digging into her book <em>What Works</em>, which sneakily hides in the “goal setting and productivity” genre while really being a viciously accurate analysis and dissection of the whole hustle culture late-stage capitalism world we find ourselves in.</p>
<p>It’s the kind of book that asks questions like <em>What are you, without the DOING?</em> and then goes merrily on to other subjects, leaving you to stare up at the ceiling at 1am pondering what the answer is.</p>
<p>Or maybe that’s just me.</p>
<p>In one section she talks about the idea of capacity — which is how I found her book in the first place, listening to her talk with </p>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/u/2584a896deb9?source=post_page-----98baf5ea3eb0--------------------------------" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Charlie Gilkey</a></p>
<p> (another great author who asks annoying questions). In the book, she suggests that if you really want to figure out what your capacity is, you should start by keeping a time journal.</p>
<p>It is exactly what it sounds like: writing down things as you do them. It doesn’t have to be exact, to-the-minute (unless, as Tara says, you are a “super Type-A or a dedicated Virgo”). But every time you do something new, you make a note of it, on your phone or your notebook.</p>
<p>In my case, I immediately thought “<em>there’s gotta be an app for that</em>, and sure enough there are many — including one that I apparently purchased and then forgot about/gave up on, called <a href="https://atracker.pro/home.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>ATracker</em></a> (no affiliation).</p>
<p>I installed it right then and there, and began the experiment.</p>
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