This Simple Journal Hack Might Be the Cure for Procrastination and Task Paralysis

<p>It&rsquo;s all&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/u/78921ddacb9a?source=post_page-----98baf5ea3eb0--------------------------------" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Tara McMullin</a></p> <p>&rsquo;s fault.</p> <p>I&rsquo;ve been digging into her book&nbsp;<em>What Works</em>, which sneakily hides in the &ldquo;goal setting and productivity&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s the kind of book that asks questions like&nbsp;<em>What are you, without the DOING?</em>&nbsp;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&rsquo;s just me.</p> <p>In one section she talks about the idea of capacity &mdash; which is how I found her book in the first place, listening to her talk with&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/u/2584a896deb9?source=post_page-----98baf5ea3eb0--------------------------------" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Charlie Gilkey</a></p> <p>&nbsp;(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&rsquo;t have to be exact, to-the-minute (unless, as Tara says, you are a &ldquo;super Type-A or a dedicated Virgo&rdquo;). 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 &ldquo;<em>there&rsquo;s gotta be an app for that</em>, and sure enough there are many &mdash; including one that I apparently purchased and then forgot about/gave up on, called&nbsp;<a href="https://atracker.pro/home.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>ATracker</em></a>&nbsp;(no affiliation).</p> <p>I installed it right then and there, and began the experiment.</p> <p><a href="https://graymiller.medium.com/this-simple-journal-hack-might-be-the-cure-for-procrastination-and-task-paralysis-98baf5ea3eb0"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>