Procrastinate to Success
Laziness is your superpower?
You can use procrastination to your advantage.
Here’s how.
There are two types of tasks in your life:
The must-dos — laundry, emails, dishes, deadlines.
The want-to-but-don’t-have-to-dos — writing, learning guitar, building a business, reading more, reaching out to potential clients.
The first category keeps your life running.
The second category changes your life.
But here’s the trick:
Most of us only do the must-dos — not because we care deeply about them, but because they're safe. They’re timely. They’re socially acceptable. You’ll never get weird looks for folding laundry.
Meanwhile, the real work stays buried under the guise of “I’ll do it when I have time.”
You won’t.
Procrastinate on purpose
Let’s say you’re procrastinating on dishes.
ok. Now use that time to build something that matters.
Pick up your instrument.
Write a paragraph.
Learn one thing that will move your business forward.
Send that DM. Write that pitch.
Then when you’re drained? Do the dishes.
It’s productive. It’s motion. But it’s not your life’s work.
But what if people judge me?
Yeah. That’s the real issue, right?
We build our identity around looking like we have it together.
A clean desk, a cleared inbox, a perfect calendar.
But that’s performing for others, not building anything.
Newsflash: no one’s paying that much attention.
Everyone’s too busy wondering if you’re judging them.
Plant seeds, not just pick berries
Here’s the metaphor that helps me:
Most of us live like hunter-gatherers.
We wake up and try to forage enough productivity to feel okay.
But long-term success is agricultural. You plant. You water. You wait.
There’s no immediate reward. It feels pointless at first.
But in time? It feeds you forever.
Use your procrastination.
– RCM