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Unique, Free Method To Stop Procrastinating NOW

by Tom E
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This is a free method to end your procrastination forever. Follow it exactly as prescribed, and watch your life change before your eyes.

If procrastination is affecting your income/life negatively, you're going to want to read this. After struggling with it for years, I discovered the secret to ending procrastination forever, and I guarantee you it's unlike any approach you've ever heard of. Use this method exactly like prescribed, and you will be blown away:

First, you need to know this: You suffer two negative effects when you procrastinate:

1. You waste time/money/energy
2. You make yourself feel really bad (whether you realize it or not) because you procrastinate.

Here's the crazy part - if you managed to procrastinate without feeling bad about it, your procrastination would end permanently within a very short period of time.

You see, the two (procrastination and feeling bad about it) are dependent on each other.

If you were to continue procrastinating for the next 7 days, but without reacting negatively to it, you would be bored out of your wits by the end of the week!

You actually would be UNABLE to procrastinate anymore, because without a reaction to your procrastination, it would turn into a monotonous nightmare.

Human beings don't do anything unless there is a payoff, and when you procrastinate, the payoff is actually feeling bad. Sounds nuts, doesn't it?

We are creatures of habit - the "payoff" we get by feeling bad is always something subconscious from the past we're struggling with. Using flawed logic, we drown ourselves in an endless loop of procrastinating and feeling bad about it.


Here's how you end the madness:
  • Decide - really commit that for the next 24 hours, you're simply going to watch your procrastination without any negative reaction. Just allow yourself to procrastinate.
  • I'm recommending 24 hours, because a week is much too big of a commitment if you're a procrastinator.
  • If you catch yourself feeling bad about procrastinating, make sure you don't start feeling bad for NOT feeling bad! And just get back on the horse again.
  • Once your 24 hours have ended, commit for another 24.
If you can do this for a week, I promise you that you won't recognize your life.

Now go DO IT!
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  • Profile picture of the author rickfrazier1
    Ah... Yes...

    Though there are a number of ways to end procrastination, the one suggested here has a lot of benefits you wouldn't immediately think of.

    Inspection can help a number of issues in life, and procrastination is certainly one of them. Unfortunately, most people try to use guilt as the motivator, and as most of us have found out, guilt only makes us feel bad, and doesn't mean we will actually change.

    Inspecting your daily activities as the OP suggests can help in a number of ways.

    First, you will notice the things you are doing that are sucking your time. This will help you see where you can get the time do what you really want.

    Second, you will not only notice what actions lead to your procastination, you will see what you are doing right in your daily activities.

    Third, without even realizing it at first, you will start to feel better. Your natural (or habitual) tendency to feel bad for procrastinating will get less with time, and as you start to feel better, your whole outlook will improve.

    Fourth, as you stop beating yourself up mentally, you will find a new drive to get things done, and as you do start completing tasks, you will snowball the positive feeling of accomplishment. No matter how small you start, it will build with time.

    I've observed that procrastination comes from a number of root causes. For some people, it is because they don't seem to believe in their own abilities. Others seem to think they have far too much to do, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as they put off starting things. Some even believe they "work better under pressure" so their procrastination actually makes them more efficient.

    Whatever your beliefs, you probably still beat yourself up mentally whenever you procrastinate, and learning to overcome your habits will make a huge difference in your life due to a better self image and more positive outlook on life.
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  • Profile picture of the author Clara H
    You're right, I haven't heard of this approach before.

    I use to be a master at procrastinating. I could sit there doing *nothing* for months and months (yes, I'm serious...). And I would feel very guilty and stressed about it.

    I have read so many time management books and tried so many different techniques, but they only last a day or two (a week if I'm really lucky) and then I fall back into procrastinating.

    Recently though, I've finally discovered a major reason *why* I procrastinate and how to stop that. Multi tasking makes me procrastinate. If I need to get this and that and this done during the day, instead I do none of it and play Minesweeper until it's evening. And later when I'm spending time with friends, inside I'm stressing: "I should be home right now getting my work done!"

    By the way, I'm very good at Minesweeper now.

    So now I FOCUS on one thing. My days are separated in half: the day and the evening. During those times, I focus on just one thing. Then in the evening if I'm doing something else, I switch off what I was doing during the day and focus on the next thing (eg spending time with friends) without feeling guilty. This is just something I've started doing in the last couple of months and it works wonders.

    ANYWAY. I think your technique will supplement what I'm doing nicely, so I'm going to try it! I am not going to feel bad about procrastinating, I will just observe how I'm spending my time. Thank you!
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  • Profile picture of the author Tom E
    Another, really good approach is taught in "The 15 Second Principle". Amazing book that teaches how to do everything in extremely small steps. For instance, instead of committing to promoting a product (as an example) for one hour, commit to doing it for just 15 seconds. Then do it. Amazing what happens from there.
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