Steps to Stop Procrastination
I hope you have taken the first action step and thought about and written down how you “stop” yourself from doing something you truly want to do.
The next step is to start to interpret the information you wrote down in a new way.
Recap: The Question Was: “How can I cause myself to get right to the things that are most important for me to do each morning? How can I stop procrastinating?“
In general to stop procrastination we need to know three things.
- What are the thoughts and feelings running in the back of your mind that create procrastination.
- How to get underneath to the roots of these thoughts and feelings.
- How to create NO FAIL Action Steps.
In the 1st action step we began to look at the thoughts moving through your mind. You might have already uncovered some feelings you get when you think about doing a “task” and then get stuck in procrastination.
The next step is to look “underneath” at what is really happening.
The 2nd action step: The next time you procrastinate, or better yet, right now while you are thinking about it, what you did this morning instead of doing what was important to you?
Or another way to ask the question is: “What do I do instead of what I want to do”?
The answers to these questions will provide important clues to the underlying problem. So think about and list the things you do, while you are procrastinating.
The things we do to put off doing a project fall into different categories. So just list the answers and begin to think about what categories they fall into. Hint: safety, security, comfort, feeling of control etc. We will discuss why it is important to understand how to use the underlying reasons for our behavior in order to change this habit of procrastination.
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