It’s two o’clock in the morning and you’re finally getting to that email you’ve been procrastinating on. It sat there for days, looming silently—maybe even jumping to the top of the stack because, your nemesis, the person who sent it, said, “Just following up on this…”
You take a deep breath, open the email, and think through how to respond. Something clicks, you see the answer, and you type it out. It takes all of five minutes.
You hit send, and breathe a sigh of relief. You’re back at Inbox 0. As soon as the relief hits another question comes up: what the hell was that?
If you’re anything like me, you just spent way more time procrastinating on that particular email than it took to Actually. Respond. To. The. Damn. Thing. I ignore, or avoid, or worry—and then I sit down to do it and it’s way easier than I thought it would be.
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