What is a Wasteman Loop & How to avoid it?

 Waqar Ahmed | The Productivity Science

What is a wasteman Loop?

For the past few days, I have been doing a lot of social media surfacing without realizing the effects of it on my productive life. I was so indulged in social media scrolling, liking, and sharing weird cat posts that I never realized I was wasting more than 4 hours per day of my precious life. Being into some business where there is no return value or profit is what I call a wasteman loop. Every once in a while I return to this wasteman life and I have to push myself again to keep focused on the main objectives in life. This on and off productivity is what I call the loop. I’m constantly worried about two things to happen in my life, first, when I start wasting my time on social media or any other stuff that adds zero value to my life, second, the continuous fight with consistency to not return to wasteman life and still end up becoming the wasteman I loathe.

How does it affect your productivity?

Being a wasteman has so many disadvantages, but it has also some great advantages. It can provide you the luxury to sleep all day & night without any worry about real-world problems. It can provide you a lot of time to chill with your virtual friends on social media that you never meet in real life, and probably you never look forward to meeting them in real life. The negative effects are far from simple negative effects. When you are a wasteman, you never realize how much amount of time you have wasted that you could have otherwise used on finishing some important work assignments that are due by next evening.

Time is an important entity of life, and it is the very first thing that is being targeted when you opt for a wasteman life. And, to be honest, it is also the last thing I would want myself to happen. But unfortunately, once you have entered the wasteman loop, you already have got few choices. The first choice you have is to continue the procrastination because it is constantly feeding your body with overfilled dopamine. The other choice is to leave this loop and start doing the real hard work, which is a really hard thing, but of course, not the impossible thing.

How to get rid of the wasteman loop?

Set you clear targets

Always be busy in your life. Set your preferences. And also rank your preferences on the diary to see what needs your immediate attention. If you can’t fill your plate with the productive target, surely, it will else be taken over by some lazy pleasure-driven activities, such as Netflix, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

Avoid Multi-tasking

Nothing comes greater from being a multi-tasker. Believe me, I have been into this world and it is miserable. I used to open three different topics in a single browser with fifteen different tabs in it, and by the end of the day, I couldn’t even finish a single topic. Select any single topic/target and give your complete self into it; it would be the most productive activity of your life.

Keep reminding yourself about your life’s mission

It is an important skill of keeping oneself hooked to primary targets. If you want to be an author, avoid all worlds’ distractions and make your “writer-hood” a full priority. Make your life mission clear, get information about it, and start working on it. You will slowly get there.

Do not compromise on your work no matter what circumstance bring forth

This is a challenging statement. I have seen so many people switching from one career to another and getting huge success there. But it has happened on a small scale. The most passionate-driven people have always been the most successful in their lives, and that’s a fact.

You also have to find your passion and if the circumstance doesn’t allow you to fully indulge yourself in your passion, buy some part-time in your bedroom and start working on it. One day you will get what you have been passionate about.

Always appreciate your time and dedication

To avoid being a wasteman, you need to learn to connect with yourself spiritually. Take some time for a walk each morning/evening and start thinking about what have you achieved so far in your life? It doesn’t have to be too great to be thankful. It can even be a kind gesture of helping an old lady to cross the road nearby your school/work. The point is to rejuvenate your accomplishments to feel positive all the time.

Believe in Hard Work

The moment we start doubting our efforts, we start inclining towards the wasteman loop. So it is necessary to believe in what we’re investing in our most important time of life. Remember, little steps won’t bring overnight revolution, instead they would bring you a slow and steady, and also long-term life success, and it would be all worth putting your time in.