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Originally Posted by fainaent  I have found that it's important to find the cause of your procrastination. Often you will be very surprised. For instance, today I needed to put in some articles for my blogs(I still have one more to go, but I've written 5 today). In this case, the 'procrastination' was just a lack of motivation. So I backed things up a bit to look at the bigger picture. I've just created 3 blogs, and I want them to be an unbelievable force for good in this world. Haha. But seriously, I do. I realized that if I don't update every weekday like my plan, I'm not going to get the traffic, and not as many people are going to take a look at my articles, learn, and improve themselves. This gave me motivation. It wasn't procrastination, it was lack of motivation. (By the way, what I did there to help myself has to do with chunking and different perceptual positions... I'm loving these NLP tools!)
Instead of trying to deal with procrastination(the symptom), try and find the real problem. If you're distracted because a football game is on, you have to examine your priorities. If watching the football game is more important to you than 'X', you're just not going to be very successful at 'X' while the game is on.
Just some of my thoughts. |
Yea, I agree with you on finding the root causes. The trouble is, sometimes people allow others things to grab so much of their attention and time that they don't even find the underlying problem.
Thus, to me, the first step should be to gain an awareness first. If you're on auto-pilot mode, you wouldn't be able to find the root cause. To gain awareness, you need to eliminate distractions. Only when you've quietened the noise outside of you can you hear the voice inside of you.
cheers.
