Hehehe you are right Jundo, this fellow is no Zen teacher by any means, I missed that the title of the blog may be misleading :P His blog went from productivity issues from the start, back in 2009 or so, then gradually went to simplifying lifestyle, minimalism, meditation and things like that. I have no idea why he named his blog that way, but it is a very popular one, and I think he does some kind of meditation, surely not shikantaza, although he quotes some Buddhist teachers from time to time, specially Thich Nhat Hanh
Annny way, this is what he says on the matter:
"Everyone procrastinates, but why?
Out of fear: fear of failure, fear of something difficult or uncomfortable or confusing.
And where does this fear come from? An ideal: that we’ll succeed, that things will be comfortable and fairly easy, that we’ll know what we’re doing.
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When you have an ideal, you fear not meeting the ideal. You hold onto this ideal, and in your mind it becomes real.
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(We) can let go of the ideal. Life doesn’t have to be easy — in fact, the hard stuff is how we achieve anything of value. Life doesn’t have to be comfortable — in fact, when we get out of our comfort zone,
we grow. (We) don’t have to know what we are doing — it’s when we do things we don’t know how to do that we learn new things, new skills, and get better at them.
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(We) can accept that things will be difficult and uncomfortable, embrace that, and do it anyway. He can be present with the task, and do it in this moment.
Let go, accept, embrace, be present, do. A cure for procrastination."
Seems like a good advice. Don't know if it is really a cure, but makes some sense...now, have to work on something, but, first, some TV procrastinating time
Gassho