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Procrastination and distraction
Procrastination
Saturday afternoon is a time I have earmarked to do creative endevours. My plan is that I will put on some YouTube sessions on topics I am interested in — such as painting and writing. Then as I watch these videos I will write and paint. In this way I can spend time relaxing and get stuff done.
The reality is that I have been lying in bed with my laptop on my lap for the past hour. I have YouTube playing on my old lap-top so that is the fist part sorted. On my new laptop, I have a blank page on a word document. What has happed is I have struggled to get started. I had no idea what to write, and I think a lot of this is because I am distracted.
Distraction
With so many relaxation activities associated with electronic devices, distraction is easily achieved. I rarely need to be bored or have no time to look at my phone. The problem is that I allow myself to have all these distractions easily to hand and try to fit my writing in between. Writing like this works fine when I am engaged with my subject, as I can tune out all external distractions.
When I am struggling to write and must pull out my ideas and stop to wonder what I am going to type next, I find it too easy to allow distractions to come to the fore.
