We often put our creative projects on the bottom of our to-do lists if they make it there at all. Indefinitely delaying our creative impulses leads to remorse and regret. Sometimes we are so used to postponing the most important actions (read: personally meaningful) that when we finally have time to pursue them, we don’t. By then, we are so out of the habit of giving them time we fill the hours with other meaningless ones. Days pass. Years. And what we said was most important fades under the rubble of what had masqueraded as urgent. Put your creative ideas back high on the list. The kitchen floor can wait. The sheets don’t need to be changed this minute. Will watching one more newscast of the world imploding save a life? Why watch one more episode of a show you’re not likely to remember in a month? Are you alphabetizing your bookshelf instead of writing your own book—a book that might make a difference to someone? Consider positive procrastination. Postpone the tasks that are not urgent or important and that, if left undone, might fall off the list altogether. Polish your procrastinating style to make time for what you’ve been missing.

The Power of Positive Procrastination
By Katie Russo, Creative Assistant

When Procrastination is Positive!
 By Camille Harris of LaMountain & Associates

"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." - Robert Benchley, Read More. 

How positive procrastination can skyrocket your productivity
 By Charlie Spargo of Prolific North

"When you delay a task that's important but not urgent, you can accumulate new information that either improves the final result or, occasionally, helps you realise the task is unnecessary. Few things hinder efficiency more than time wasted on tasks that, in hindsight, didn’t need to be done.” Read More. 

Turn delay into the art of creativity, dreaming, or doing nothing. While we often think of the negative consequences of procrastination, as I began to obsess over my own ever-growing to-do list, I decided to search for the upside of procrastination. Read More.