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Break The Procrastination Cycle (ali abdaal)

Break The Procrastination Cycle (ali abdaal)

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Break The Procrastination Cycle

stop doing ‘fake work’ and start doing the ‘real work’. To be able to achieve it . You can follow this simple steps

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Make It Your Top Priority

When you feel averse to a specific task, literally anything else will feel really tempting (taking out the bins, writing an email to your friend, cooking a 3-course meal). So, ruthlessly prioritise the exact task you’re putting off. The longer you let it wait, the more you’ll associate that task with stress and failure... making it even harder to start.

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📅 Put It In Your Calendar

Choose a block of time (sooner rather than later) to do the work, and put it in your calendar. This won’t automatically get you to do the thing. But it'll protect your time, and take away the “I just don’t have enough time” excuse. Bonus point if you set up a notification for 30 minutes before the time.

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🏗 Take The MVP Approach

The startup world has this concept of ‘minimum viable product’. What’s the most basic (yet functional) version of your product that you can create and test out? This lets you get real-world feedback faster, and stop being a perfectionist (it’s just a crappy first draft after all). You also get momentum from actually doing something tangible.

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Interesting Stuff On MVP

The MVP method is incredibly helpful for overcoming procrastination. Aim to do the most basic version of the task you’re procrastinating on

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Final Point

This all boils down to one piece of advice: take the most direct route to your goal. Sure you'll mistakes. But that'll accelerate your progress more than just tweaking your master plan and making no mistakes at all.

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CURATOR'S NOTE

In a world where it easy to procastinate. This interesting stuff of Ali abdaal is very helpful

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