My brain simply can't settle in and write with those lingering in the back of my mind.
My book falls squarely in the "Not Urgent but Important" box.
Insights
- If my day is
full of urgent and important tasks, simply scheduling something that's important but not urgent doesn't work.
- If I could make my writing both important AND urgent, I'd get it done.
It seems I have some subconscious calculus that weighs importance against urgency and dictates my focus accordingly.
So the
key for me to getting back to writing is increasing the importance, the urgency, or both.
For example, if the biggest publishing house in the world said, "Kevin, we'll publish this for you, but you must submit 1,000 words per week or we're out." I'd have weekly urgency and high importance, and I guarantee I'd submit 1,000 words every week.
The
question is: how do you manufacture this kind of urgency and importance for something that doesn't feel inherently urgent-important?
Solve that, and you solve your "procrastination" for good.