Imagine yourself starting, not finishing
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#2Yet another article to beat procrastination. I like the idea of rewiring the limbic system though.
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#3I completely agree with this. I find the best way to fight procrastination is to put all my willpower into just doing one task, no matter how small, towards the goal. That often puts me into a state of mind of doing many more tasks without needing willpower.
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#4Great to-the-point article.
To add from personal experience, a similar method can be applied for daunting tasks. To give an example: If your todo-list seems overwhelming you may end up procrastinating or stressing out. The solution can be a variant of what's described in the article: Write a new list with only 3-5/fewer items and focus on those.
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#5Good tip, though I always feel a pang of irony when I learn something like this while procrastinating.
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#6Yet another article to beat procrastination. I like the idea of rewiring the limbic system though.
I've saved up a long list of them into a big project that I will definitely tackle one day. Definitely.
I just need to sort out the definitions and overlapping boundaries with habits, tasks and projects and what I should be documenting and not documenting, and how I should keep a record in terms of time-stamps and how to structure my information.
One day I will definitely do something.
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#7I've read that you should break up large tasks into their most atomic parts which are psychologically less overwhelming. So rather than write article, you might have, research subject (2 hours), brains storm bullet points of questions, write outline, ... At our company I constantly worry about us being over ambitious because when we are we don't get things done. Better to start with a small milestone where everyone can be on the same page, see and enjoy the result, and move on to the next thing when it's complete.
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#8> to beat procrastination, a simple trick is to imagine starting the task as opposed to finishing it
You could also just start the task, basically accomplishing the same thing. Skip the imagining part if it is a distraction.
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#9Good tip, though I always feel a pang of irony when I learn something like this while procrastinating.
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#10A great tip.
Yet I'm keeping in mind that it isn't doesn't guaranteed to work for me. Everyone is wired different. I'm fallible and perfectly capable of misidentifying something as procrastination. I'm uncomfortable with "procrastination"s connotation of moral failing. One person's procrastination is another's Just in Time execution.