How to save a half-wasted day🥲

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[anisaayann]

Yes! I love days where I am intentionally doing nothing. The worst is when I'm meant to be productive but I'm not and I'm stuck watching Netflix or YouTube shorts. The faster I notice this behaviour and correct it, the better I feel for the rest of the day.

[JoaoJGabriel]

The first advice that comes to my mind is to sit with the discomfort.

A lot of the times procrastination is a cycle of feeling anxiety about doing what you "have to do", procrastinating to soothe the anxiety, then feeling anxious for procrastinating... If you simply learn to feel this anxiety without judging or trying to fix it, you already go a long way to get out of the loop.

[Joanie-yjwq]

How to save yourself from half-wasted days
2:00 Go Outside
3:52 Set a timer for 5 minutes to start work
4:13 Start with either the easiest task or the harder task
4:45 Keep the momentum and increase time to 25-30 minutes of work
6:00 Brilliant Ad

How to avoid half wasted days
6:56 Schedule rest days
7:15 Get out of House
7:33 Schedule something in the morning
7:46 Try Intermittent Fasting


Other helpful tips:
- Drink water/hydrate
-Try meditation/breathing exercises
-Join some live stream or group chat for accountability
-Make flexible timeblocks for things to get done (CAT Task System)
-Use next-action tasks that's low impact (scrub the bathroom sink versus clean the master bathroom)

[LukeBarousse]

"Get your s@#t together" ... I want to hang this saying as a poster in my office for motivation 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[pikachupikachu]

This was really helpful!!! Usually i keep seeing videos where the person's life seem perfect and they say waking up at like 9 is late.. but what you said is exactly what happens. I wake up REALLY late at like 11 am and end up wasting time till 3 pm.. I'm trying to change that. But sometimes it just happens and i end up wasting the whole day. Now atleast half of the day will be useful now!

[themore-you-know]

I'm pausing my tea sipping, email sending process to say:
1:21 Come on Tina's editor. Admit it. You learned/bought something new in Adobe Premiere and really felt like using it haha.

[thestorygirl]

Such good tips! My ADHD definitley kills me many days. I find my vice is anything with endless scroll, Instagram, Youtube, News, Twitter. All super time sucking. I also try to schedule morning meetings whenever I can so I have a hard morning start time. Or I have been going out to study recently, it also helps alot. I teamed up with another friend this week to check in with each other at 9 AM to get the work day started, that has been so helpful! Body doubling with a friend on Facetime also is great. Thanks for this great video! Go, Tina!

[dancerinaz]

saving my half wasted day by watching Tina's videos

[sujithjacob]

Best thing about Tina's videos are that they are soo relatable and applicable in life!!!

[yuzufrio]

Love the practical and realistic tips, Tina! The suggestion to get out of one's room or comfort place to disrupt an unplanned degeneration day is a great idea. My degeneration days include laying in bed and binge-watching YouTube. 🤔 Ways I've been trying to prevent sabotage days are timeblocking my days beforehand to include breaks, rest, chores/errands, and fun and refraining from using my phone in bed so that I can sleep more (the toughest one for me!). To disrupt an unplanned degeneration day, I like to take a shower and/or do some quick yoga, write or review a brief Must-Do list, and... forgive myself! I find that I tend to be more productive when I'm gentler and more sympathetic with myself. 👍 We all have our degeneration days, but you're so right that it's about balance and catching ourselves when we're running on autopilot rather than with intention!

[talita]

Thanks, Tina! I have been feeling really guilty these days, my discipline has degenerated into a train wreck. Your video helped a lot. My vice is YouTube… 🤦🏻‍♀️

[PeterPan-xeqw]

That feeling of looking up and seeing it's around 3pm, is just too relatable. Thank you for your motivation and help to keep in check! 🙏

[beaumiffle]

Omg I really loved the points made in this video!! So informative and realistic compared to other guilt tripping videos with low effort advice. Thank you so much Tina, definitely going to put these to use 💪

[pastel]

Your videos helped me leave an academic slump lately. Thank you for putting your time into these!

[PaulTheEldritchCat]

Starting a momentum is key here. I can feel what you explain; I can spend a whole weekend watching YT videos one after another while scrolling my FB feed.

At the end of the Sunday, when I finally get up, put a podcast on and start cooking for the week I can spend 3-4 hours in the kitchen cooking and baking. As you say, inertia.

A tip for the people that are like me, always needing a mental stimulation to do the boring tasks (cleaning, washing up, cooking, folding laundry...) : put some energetic music or a good podcast on! It really helps me going and I don't need to look at a screen so I'm actually doing my chores on time.

[August-Tropical-Trees]

I really enjoy her receptivity to bring in physics in her video, respect respect

[shanky]

It's like she knows exactly what iam going through and makes a video for me 🤗

[davebarber]

I'm currently learning Java and when I get stuck on a problem my mind wants to run away from it. I usually end up in a youtube loop watching random things. It's not all bad. I now have an interest in the sport of climbing 😄

[ayemaeyalit]

Best thing that works for me is meeting up with study buddies either in person or virtually.

[PatrickLimitless]

Haha, I also love finding unique spots to sit at and work without getting kick out.