A weird journey to diminish chronic procrastination from a long term perspective

Mistakes to avoid

One of the big mistake that people do is they think chronic procrastination can be solved with a local picture where you find a tool for specific context and it is over. Instead you should start with a global approach to diminish the impact of your chronic procrastination at the scale of your entire life.  However this global approach should include aligned and integrate local   tools that help you to experiment short term results. It is a long term journey of self developement that never stops.

Mindset It always comes from within

When people put of task, their natural reaction is to look for solution outside. ” the gym is too far away”, ” I can’t concentrate because I have a phone ON” ,
It is partially true. The root of your issue always comes the within.

If you struggle to start , restart, or finish something, it means there is a mental invisible resistance toward this task.
So always step back and take actions to diminish the inner resistance before you comes back to moving forward doing the task itself.
For instance are you struggling to engage in starting your essay? instead of repeating to yourself ” i should do this “, look back:
“What is holding me back now?” Then “what can I do now to adress this inertia?” And finally “Now let’s start writing”.

Forget about motivation and judgemental assertions.

Don’t aim to be motivated,. Motivation comes and go. Aim for integration and alignment with the current ressources you have. This is the key to consistency.

Kickstart a cohesive journey for solving your chronic procrastination. Forget about time managment techniques or task clarification problem tools. Go deeper than that: Emotion, belief, Ego …

This journey contains moves that have one specific purpose. These moves contains stations that zoom in on the execution perspective.

Each station lasts 3 weeks

Move 1 :Learn to diagnose yourself

Station 1 : How much time do you waste doing nothing on a daily basis ?

a/ What is the goal ?

The aim of this part is to reduce the damage. Once you become conscious that roughly speaking you are wasting 4 to 6 hours a day doing nothing, you won’t be the same.

Unless you really don’t care, this will indirectly make you feel guilty and trigger a desire to change at at emotional level.

Anytime you find yourself in a loop where you don’t know « what Can I do now » or « I don’t know if I shoudl do x or Y or Z » do the first hing at hand.

From a local perspective you are still putring things off, but from a global perspective , you are moving forwards

b/ What is the strategy to be applied as a pre-decision ?

« As soon as a find myself doing nothing, daydreaming, i tane action towards wathever in my short term memory »

• Is there something I can can now ?

• What is it ?

• Let ‘s go

It doesn’t matter if you follow your plan or not. What matters is that globally speaning you take more actions than you dream abbout actions

C/ What tool do I need: Sport.

Sport will help you to accomplish task unconsceven if you didn’t plan them carrefully. That allows you to continue to accomplish things when your focus i

d/ example : In the Kitchen

As soon as I become aware I just spent some times daydreaming :

• Is there something I can do now ?
  •  YES
• What is it ?
  • Reading one page of book
• Let ‘s go
• I start read one page and end up reading 3 pages. And it disconnecs me from my thinking process.

Station 2 : What are the number 1 emotional issues that burden you the most ?

a/ what is the goal ?

The phychological issues that triggers your procrastination behabior are interconnected at a deep level.

But few of them are more destructive than others since theg creat tooe much inertia.

The purpose of this section is to help you to spot those critical emotional roots.

b/ What is the strategy to be applied as a pre-decision ?

« Any time i find my self hesitating doing something twice in a raw, i will either record it or dissect it now »

• What are the thoughts that gravitates when I think doing this tasks ?

c/ What are the tools you need ?

What you need to increase your awareness range : MediTation. Start by exercising your ability to slow down.

d/ Example

Last year my a friend of mine suggested I started a blog post. He even managed to put everything into place so that I just had to write and publish my articles.

Few weeks later, I hadn’t write anything.

So I started suspecting something was going wrong underneath but I didn’t know what.

My first hypothesis was to suspect : fear of hardwork dued to the learning curve. I think it was because I didn’t know how to manipulate wordpress that I was stuck.

So I look at few video about how to publish articles on wordpress , i read blog posts with specific guidelines . And Finall I had the courage to wrire my first article.

However I was surprised I still have a huge pressure to push the ” SEND ” button.

That is when I came to the realisation,.i was afraid of been exposed, i was afraid of being crititiced, I was afraid or being rejected since thousands of people would have acces to my work.

My desire to please and my fear of rejection was my number emotional root for inertia to taking action.

Later anytime i feel I put of a task many times ( prospection, sharing, public speaking, salary negociation, answering No, ) my first hypothesis is to suspect and adress perfectionism dued to fear of judgment.

Move 2: Zoom in to cure your main issue (comming soon)