Study finds that mindfulness is associated with reduced procrastination
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Study finds that mindfulness is associated with reduced procrastination
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#2I wanted to start meditating for a while but I keep putting it off. How can I stop procrastinating?
Re: Study finds that mindfulness is associated with reduced procrastination
#3I wanted to start meditating for a while but I keep putting it off. How can I stop procrastinating?
Break the work up into smaller chunks, writw them down on a physical piece of paper. Also try running the program Focalfilter, block the sites which most commonly distract you.
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#4I wanted to start meditating for a while but I keep putting it off. How can I stop procrastinating?
Based on mroe than just this comment, have a serious talk with yourself
Procrastination is often not about being lazy, but a deeply embedded or burried fear of failure. That being said, being overwhelmed can also stop you from taking action of any kind, and a part of fixing that pattern (which has usually already developed once you start to recognize procrastinating is a provlem for you) is indeed cutting everything into bite sized chunks.
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#5I have tried to get started on meditation/mindfulness several times but I have never been able to stick with it. Any suggestions on a good way of getting started with it?
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#6Yet, I find that procrastination helps me perform better.
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#7The relationship goes both ways. hard to say there is anything actionable here
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#8I have tried to get started on meditation/mindfulness several times but I have never been able to stick with it. Any suggestions on a good way of getting started with it?
Assuming you're not making a joke regarding procrastination --- a way that worked for me was to take a mindfulness class that met regularly for a few months. The contents of the class was largely meaningless to me, but having it on my schedule every week and then attending the class, saying hello to the instructor and then spending at least 45minutes meditating helped get me started.
Good luck.
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#9Yet, I find that procrastination helps me perform better.
Same here up until a certain point.
If I'm working on a difficult problem and I've spent hours/days/weeks getting nowhere, I view constant procrastination as a signal that I need to step back and do something else. Once I step back and do something unrelated (even washing the dishes or ironing), I usually have a breakthrough on the issue.
Procrastination also cripples me if I let it get out of control. Have you ever had a 2 hour work day between 7 hours of Reddit/HN?
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#10I have tried to get started on meditation/mindfulness several times but I have never been able to stick with it. Any suggestions on a good way of getting started with it?
10 minutes a day is all you really need to get started. There is basically no way one can reasonably convince themselves that they don’t have 10 minutes to spare per day.