Do You Procrastinate?

This post is courtsey of Think Simple Now. This link will allow you to view the post in its entirety. The title is “The Panacea for Putting Things Off.”
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A Few Observations
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- The more we make excuses, the more we buy into them, the easier it is to make additional excuses to support our mind-created beliefs. These beliefs become our story, and our excuses become our reality.
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- Delaying is addictive. Even if your intention is to put it off “just this one time”. The act of putting it off sets a chain of reactions that will make it easier to delay this task again. In fact, it becomes more likely that the task will be postponed again.
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- What we repeat in our mind actually exaggerates the scale of the task involved. It snowballs larger and larger, until the task becomes so big that you will never get it done.
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- Constantly thinking about doing something but avoiding the actual act of doing it takes energy. You end up spending more energy pondering about it and making excuses for it than just getting it done. You’ll actually save time and attention energy by just doing it.
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- We can only move on with our lives when we can get past our internal conflict between our story of procrastination and our desire to get it done. You really start to be productive when you can change your attitude.
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- When you break the cycle and start, you’ll be surprised at how quick
 and easy the task actually takes. You’ll be wondering why you didn’t just get it done in the first place.
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The Cure
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- STOP THINKING, JUST DO IT!
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Think Simple Now is a great blog and Tina is very high energy. If you have a few minutes go have a look around.
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That’s it for now. I am almost done with the new ecourse “Healthy Self-Esteem” and will post the link ASAP.

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