DAE find elaborate weekly spreads more stressful than helpful?

Spent hours on a fancy layout. Realized I was avoiding actual tasks. Now I stick to basic lists.

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Spending hours on layout only to realize you're procrastinating is a classic move. It's easy to get caught up in making things look good rather than doing them. Switching to basic lists is a solid fix for actually getting stuff done.

jenny_murphy5h ago

Painfully accurate. When you said "making things look good rather than doing them," that hit home. Honestly, I've wasted so much time perfecting templates instead of just writing. Tbh, the basic list switch only works if you commit to ignoring the urge to tweak. Ngl, sometimes the procrastination is just fear of starting the actual task.

spencer_lee776h ago

But what if the list itself becomes the procrastination tool? I've absolutely caught myself spending thirty minutes color-coding and breaking down a simple grocery list into sub-tasks instead of just going to the store. The core issue is optimizing the system instead of using it.

the_stella4h ago

Set a hard stop on tweaking and embrace the ugly, functional list.

sandraperez4h ago

My friend laminated her entire bullet journal before realizing she was terrified of messing up the perfect pages. She finally just grabbed a cheap notebook and scribbled her to-dos in pencil, which actually got things moving. The fancy system was just a pretty cage for her anxiety about starting.