In the moment, why does calling donors feel like an impossible task, but cleaning your entire house seems simple? 🤷♀️
It’s called productive procrastination—and while it still feels satisfying, your to-do list ultimately suffers.
During our podcast, Chelsey mentioned that breaking down your tasks into bite-sized, specific steps can help to solve this issue.
A couple examples:
✨ Instead of the weekly goal of "Call 25 donors”, write down “Call 5 donors per day”.
✨ Instead of the daily goal of "Call 5 donors per day", write down "Call donor 1", and "Call donor 2", and so on with checkboxes for each.
The result? Progress that matters.
Otherwise, productive procrastination will cause a build-up of necessary tasks, multiplying that same daunting feeling you had in the beginning.
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