Task Procrastination vs. Decision Procrastination: You Need Different Fixes (TPS638)

Most procrastination advice treats every delay as the same problem. In this episode, we separate task procrastination, when you know what to do but cannot start, from decision procrastination, when you cannot choose a path and everything downstream stalls. You will learn a quick diagnostic, targeted interventions for each type, and a practical reset protocol using smaller next actions, decision criteria, deadlines, and focused work blocks.

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Cheat Sheet

• Top 3 Productivity Resources [2:17]
• Why the “I’ll just” trick doesn’t fix every kind of procrastination [4:55]
• The type of procrastination even seasoned productivity nerds fall into [7:28]
• Why working for yourself can be productivity poison [10:21]
• Find the bottleneck before you reach for a hack [16:19]
• The weekly review question that heads off procrastination [20:50]
• Why your side project should happen before work, not after [24:05]
• How an AI agent cut Thanh’s email decision fatigue [31:51]
• What to do when the thing you’re avoiding is a decision [38:20]
• Why talking to AI in the car can untangle big decisions [40:51]

Links

• Mint Mobile
• Gusto
• Upwork
• Base44
• 25X Productivity Coaching
• Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip and Dan Heath
• Pomodoro Technique
• Tomato Timer Stream Deck Plugin
• Elgato Stream Deck
• Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression by Christopher Knowlton
• The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford
• Getting Things Done by David Allen
• OmniFocus
• Weekly Reviews: Values, Not Tasks (TPS593)
• Grok Bot
• Fantastical
• Meta Muse
• Hermes Agent by Nous Research
• Atomic Habits by James Clear

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