It’s a visually-stimulating time-waster.Īs both a business and personal user, it gets even more complicated. The never-ending visual feed is supposed to expose you to more things that you may want to re-pin to your own board so you can find them again later. First, it’s a way to visually bookmark things on the internet you want to find again. Pinterest is just a tool, yes, but it has two distinct uses. But it didn’t lead to my growth, for a while it led to my decay. Pinterest probably doesn’t see it that way, because what I call the dark side led to their incredible viral growth. Brilliant.īut there’s another side to Pinterest. I loved the initial premise of Pinterest: pin all the awesome things you find on the internet with a picture, so you can easily find them again. Ok I’m exaggerating (a little), but Pinterest was a big productivity killer for me, and not only that but a creativity killer too. Thank heavens I had already quit Pinterest or I may never have put my phone down long enough to develop my new cleaning habit. I also shared that when I first started using the Pomodoro technique for work, I didn’t know what to do during my breaks, short of browsing Instagram. Last week I shared how this simple writing technique gave me a big boost in productivity, both for my work and cleaning my home.

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