“But deployed strategically with certain creative tasks, a little procrastination can actually be beneficial.”Sign up to The Nightly's newsletters. Here are five tips for using procrastination the right way, according to Brooks. Don’t use the procrastination to doomscroll, which can lead to more procrastination, Brooks says. Let tasks be unfinished — not stuck: To avoid starting major projects and never finishing them, “leave projects in a particular state of incompletion, such that picking them up again is easy,” Brooks writes. For example, if you’re painting, work on it up until the point where you’re super excited about what you’ll paint next.