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How to strengthen your willpower
How to overcome temptation and distractions
The role of motivation in willpower
Recognize process over endpoint
Reframe your life as a process of growth, not of being done.
You can celebrate your growth instead of feeling guilty for things left undone or incomplete.
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Reasons for productivity guilt
- We link our behavior, our performance, our productivity, with our self-worth.
- We also mistakenly believe that there’s actually a point where we get everything done that we want to, or should, or expect.
And we start to associate relaxing with being lazy, bad or worthle...
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Beyond comparing and competing
We don’t have to rank, compare, compete.
Do not be anxiously concerned with ranking and comparisons. Instead, be concerned with doing a good job.
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“Wasting time” also is productive
Here’s a powerful paradox: We are often most productive when we feel it least, when we’re taking a break or relaxing or doing absolutely nothing.
Resist the urge to fill every empty moment with something — “especially if you need to be extra productive or creative for a task.”
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Reevaluate your expectations
Are your expectations actually attainable or more like unattainable ideals? If your expectations are more realistic, you will have more energy to be productive.
We must alternate between times of action and times of reflection and rest. It’s just the way organisms work.
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Always appreciate the time you get, because you never know how much longer it`ll last.
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Recognize, Validate, Reframe
- Simply recognize that you’re feeling a particular way about something.
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Tips to support leaving your comfort zone
- Reframe stress: Physiologically, anxiety and excitement both entail the same "stress response." Stress can be negative or positive (eustress). When we reframe the stimuli as exciting, it can help us out of the comfort zone.
- Understand neuroplasticity:
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