Stop Procrastinating With One Question

[UnleashReality]

In the middle of university exams at the moment and a lot of my friends and people around me been asking how i manage to sit down and work and do well while still going out and being social - my answer was that i don't waste time procrastinating and doing random things so they asked how i managed that.

so i wrote an article on how to stop procrastinating.

it's short. check it out and give it a comment. would be much appreciated

here's the link: Stop Procrastinating With One Question

all the best
alex

[pianoperformer]

Yes, very helpful. It is hard when the preparation for a goal is so extensive and the goal is months or years away, but actually being in that moment I think can really help.

For instance I love performing. I would love nothing more than to be a concert pianist, or to be in an orchestra. Thinking of that moment, sitting at a piano on stage in front of thousands of people, really inspires me. I think I will start using that vision.

I was led indirectly to this method through another article I read, called The Types of Nemesis.

See, there's a piano concerto competition in October, that I have been preparing for for a little over a year now, off and on. I've had a lot of trouble with motivation, because I was so afraid of failure that I couldn't bring myself to put a lot into it. I have put hundreds of hours into this piece already, but I know that I can work a lot harder on it.

That article I just linked to, specifically the part on rivals, made me imagine it as though someone else had won the competition, and how I would feel. I just cannot let that happen, and that immediately ignited my motivation to work a lot harder at it. So that's an alternative form to the method you talked about. I know that I really want to win this, because it would be great for me in so many ways. I know that I will win it.

So anyway, I do agree with your post.

[UnleashReality]

great advice.

i was getting at the thought of competition winning - the possibility that you won't achieve your goal and use that as motivation in the end of my post. can sometimes be a bad thing in terms of ego stuff but definitely a good source of motivation before you become enlightened and ditch the ego

thinking of hte moment when you're up there doing your thing on stage, like combining motivation with visualisation - kind of reminds you why you must do what you're putting off and i find it really helps.

thanks for your comment
alex

[Andrew Brunelle]

Interesting post. Do I really want this? Procrastination is something I practice on a daily basis. I'll have to try your method. Let's see if it works.

[UnleashReality]

thanks for the comment andrew,

i think we all are pro-procrastinators to some degree

please let me know how it works for you.

all the best
alex

[ttt]

What about things you don't want to do at all but there are bad consequences if you don't do them? Then this question has the opposite effect...

[thenzengineer]

I love the simplicity of the article, its not an over complicated process to beat procrastination. I suffer from extreme procrastination and I believe procrastination is why I have failed in certain aspects of my life. I'll remember to apply this method from now on. Haha, hopefully I can beat this evil little thing we call procrastination. Thnx

[UnleashReality]

then you wouldn't be procrastinating because you wouldn't do them in the first place.

don't really understand your comment - maybe rephrase it?

alex

[UnleashReality]

thanks for the comment zengineer (cool name)

another key thing is that believing you suffer from procrastinating makes it true. suffering is self-imposed so let go of wanting to make it into a problem and that'll zap out most of it - then use the question on what remains as a moment-to-moment thing.

thanks for the comment
alex