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Originally Posted by BrettAshlee  To eliminate procrastination, make sure you start with very clear goals about what you want to achieve and why. Look at the ways in which you might be compromising your values - are there a lot of "shoulds" involved? |
Agree on this. One of the challenges for many people is deciding on a goal - many people have no idea what they want. It really calls for an inside-out approach - to examine one beliefs and values and then determining the best path. I've also been pondering on how an outside-in approach would work out i.e. you move towards what you seem to be inclined to, and figure things out along the way.
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Originally Posted by BrettAshlee Procrastination is a sign that there are conflicting forces at work within us. I agree that it is important to get to the root cause in order to successfully move forward. Here are some helpful questions: What is it about the situation, task, or goal that makes you want to turn away from it? Is it someone else's goal rather than your own? Are you afraid of failing (or succeeding)? Are you simply disinterested? Do you lack clarity on how to what you're trying to do?
If you simply have too much going on to focus on completing your most important tasks, create a do-list and then re-organize it by order of priority rather than by ease of task. Too often we trick ourselves into thinking we can get the "little things" out of the way first, only to later discover that more and more "little things" keep cropping up and preventing us from getting to the important things.
Brett |
I concur - procrastination has many underlying causes, most of the time, with these causes inter-stacked with one another. People get inundated by all the information about the world and themselves that just trying to elucidate everything is akin to walking in knee-deep soft mud.