^^^Classy examples indeed. oAuto-suggestions is powerful in shapping your actions and mindset. This is why I always try to put myself in good, motivating environment.
Stop Procrastinating - a new approach I've not seen yet
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I've read Napoleon Hill too, but even before reading anything like that I noticed how you seem to learn things even after you have stopped studying them.
I'll obsess over a subject for 3 to 6 months, then take a break from it for another 3 months. When I come back to it, parts that had me stumped or that seemed a little over my skill level fall right into place.
I've had multiple occasions where I would also be stumped on a programming issue, working on it for hours or days, then actually get the solution while dreaming. Wake up, try it out, and it works.
It's called getting out of the way of yourself. Sometimes you get so locked in to a subject that you can't see the forest for the trees if you know what I mean.
For about the past month I have been working to find a balance between fucking off and making money. I find exercise, cutting out the drinking, and a good sleep schedule have put me on a much better track. For some people it's one small step at a time, and for others it's, "I have to blow my whole fucking world up today!.
It really takes time and introspection to figure out what makes you tick, but once you do the sky is no longer the limit.
I've seen the book and the 'chapter' on procrastination is around one and a half pages and there isn't a lot more information than what's in the video. The rest of the book looks ok, but it's essentially around 50 blog style posts, collated into a book.
I know people love to smash gurus on here and especially on saltydroid.info but the best course on procrastination and productivity for me was "wake up productive" by Eben Pagan (David DeAngelo). I like it because I can listen to it in audio form while I'm doing something else (and ironically not give it my full attention which is something he advises against in the course)
In the course he mentions a lot of the stuff that's in this book and it goes into a lot more detail on HOW to trick your future self rather than simply saying you need to.
I know people love to smash gurus on here and especially on saltydroid.info but the best course on procrastination and productivity for me was "wake up productive" by Eben Pagan (David DeAngelo). I like it because I can listen to it in audio form while I'm doing something else (and ironically not give it my full attention which is something he advises against in the course)
In the course he mentions a lot of the stuff that's in this book and it goes into a lot more detail on HOW to trick your future self rather than simply saying you need to.
I think I've figured it out what my issue is:
Being in an extreme anxiety rush to get something done before a deadline is more fun than being bored at work. This makes procrastination for me a recurring habit.
A big issue with this is that if I work for myself...then there is never really that rush.
Fuck I wish you could just get rich of ideas and discussing potential plans.
Being in an extreme anxiety rush to get something done before a deadline is more fun than being bored at work. This makes procrastination for me a recurring habit.
A big issue with this is that if I work for myself...then there is never really that rush.
Fuck I wish you could just get rich of ideas and discussing potential plans.
MarkCharles
Trustworthy Newbie
Become a consultant is half the answer. ;-p
My hypothesis:-
Lack of commitment is the cause of procrastination.
Getting out of bed early and starting the plan is the cure.
Books, videos, trainers and courses on how to not procrastinate are just forms of procrastination. Lucrative forms of procrastination (for the seller). For the buyer it enables them to point at the image and say "that's me" (self-validation and identification) - which just reinforces the problem.
My observation:-
People with bookshelves full of how to succeed books tend to be failures - successful people don't go to Depak Chopra seminars. Losers do, and lazy staff sent by their companies in the mistaken believe that their staff can be inspired to change. And I don't know any successful people who have motivation/self-help books on their shelves.
Nike says it best (though planning really, really helps).
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On the contrary, many successful people I know love to read self-help/motivational books and going to seminars/events/gathering just to get motivated and surround themselves with like-minded people. Most of them are humble, generous, never shy to learn from anyone and never hesitate to share their knowledge with the people they come across. Of course there are also those who just have what it takes to succeed in everything that they do, they are naturally born smart & aggressive/competitive in nature.
From my armchair, the best 'get results' book is from Stuart Lichtman. Nothing I have ever done has yielded such effortless results. The title is "How to Get Lots of Money For Anything Fast" and the foreward is written by Joe Vitale.
Some people hate Joe and/or Stuart but the strategies in the book do work if you work them. Going to go through the book again over the holidays.
JC.
Some people hate Joe and/or Stuart but the strategies in the book do work if you work them. Going to go through the book again over the holidays.
JC.
I can relate to you. The subconscious is a mindfuck. We know we have a subconscious, yet we allow our subconscious to make decisions for us. Then when we find out about how stupid our decisions were made because of our subconscious, we rationalize the decision to ourselves and forget about it.
The key is to recognize you have a subconscious and to remind yourself daily that you need to what's best for yourself. And you must remind yourself daily; it's like weight lifting for your brain. If you stop the "weight lifting," you'll go back to your old self.
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This partly ties into another thread we have here on burnout with how napping and even the pomodoro techniques work well. Your brain needs a period to 'reflect' and consolidate and store short term memories into deeper ones/sub conscious.
Also during sleep we go into different brain states, Theta is when you are just about to sleep or waking up and helps with more lateral creative thinking which is why sometimes you'll get ideas to problems you could figure out during the day.
What's also interesting I found out when researching napping is that we really need dreams to consolidate memory. That's why when people try to stay up too long they hallucinate, the brain is forcing them to dream in order to carry out this process.
One of the challenges we have is being conscious of the fact that there are things going behind the scenes of how our mind work we don't really think about but influence how we think in the first place.
One trick I've done is to tell yourself just to start a simple part of the task.
For instance if you need to wash the dishes just tell yourself, 'let me just go into the kitchen'.
Because that's easier you will probably do it, but once you're there you will also usually go ahead and do the dishes. The idea is getting over the slight inertia of doing something, once in 'motion' it's easier to continue and complete.
As mentioned in that video email and things like facebook have a novelty factor which we are addicted to. Same idea on that yourbrainonporn site. Many times doing the tasks we need to do like work don't have any novelty so we avoid it and instead 'check' on other things.
Did a search for this and the second result was their download page:
How to Get Lots of Money for Anything - FAST, by Stuart Lichtman & Joe Vitale