If procrastination is a feature, not a bug, what can I learn from this morning's epic festival of what looks like self-sabotage?

The anti-hustle people will tell you that if you're procrastinating on something, it doesn't mean you're a lazy good-for-nothing loser. It means your subconscious is sending you an important message.

At the time of writing, I've just spent 5 hours pointedly not doing the real-life paid work that has been stressing me out for several weeks, and which I got up early on a Sunday morning to complete.

The thing is, I have had an extremely productive few hours – just on the wrong things.

I feel like there's an insight in there trying to get out.

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So what did I actually do this morning?

◆ I read some excellent articles that are relevant to the work I actually want to do
◆ I made progress on an info product I'm working on (the idea came to me at 3.28 am as I was lying awake worrying about work)
◆ I started fleshing out some ideas I want to explore in long-form articles

I also identified the origin of part of the icky miasma surrounding the thought of working.

Most of it is due to the fact that I recently switched from Windows to Mac and I'm not yet comfortable using the unironically named Finder.
So I don't know where all my files are, and I'm not 100% sure I have everything I need.

The rest of it is due to the fact that the work is frustrating and tedious and uninteresting and I'd rather give myself an appendectomy with a spoon. Except no one would pay me for that.

So my challenge is to find a way to get paid for the work I do when I procrastinate.