Displacement activity. Anyone else suffer from this?

[Hermione]

I think I need to enroll in a course, just to get my house organised!

I have not seen anyone with a serious leisure interest ie. Taking up most available personal time, have a neat and clean house. The clean households are the ones that have their vacuum cleaners on at 9am on weekend days and working the garden in the afternoon. These are not compatible with bushwalking and many other time consuming personal pursuits. When I've been out, it takes me a few days to clean out the gears and get everything stored again. They all eat into household cleaning time.

Hmmm vacuum cleaner? I'm sure we've got one somewhere just haven't seen it in a while !

[wayno]

Why we procrastinate - and how to overcome it

There are a variety of techniques to help people work effectively and minimise distractions and procrastination.

The Pomodoro technique, for instance, breaks work sessions into manageable 25-minute slots, allowing a small reward at the end, such as five minutes access to Facebook or a short coffee break.

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