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Overcoming Rational Excuses
Spending some time analyzing the possible options is good. But an indefinite amount of time is going to be bad.
The way to get past this is to set constraints. If you set these constraints in advance, then you can undermine the rational part of your mind from using them as a justification for further procrastination.
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Overcoming Emotional Resistance
You need to remove the anxiety and fear of doing the thing you’re avoiding. Then, you need to remove or invert the pleasant feeling you get from stalling:
- Give yourself small doses of the thing you’re scared of to diminish the fear it generates.
- Punish yourself for fa...
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Setting Constraints
- Set a decision deadline (for doing all the research and thinking) with a default (when the deadline passes, you’re stuck with the default).
- Start blindly, change later. Give yourself a default, and force yourself to work on it for a certain amount of time, before...
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Analysis paralysis
It's a form of procrastination.
It happens when you convince yourself you can't go forward with a decision, because you haven't given it enough thought, done enough research or figured things out to get started.
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Dealing with analysis paralysis
You have to manage 2 realities:
- Rationalization: Deal with your rationalization that you need more time to think, plan and research by preventing this excuse from working.
- Underlying fear: Even if you convince yourself that you are engaging in procrastination and...
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Why analysis paralysis happens
It has the same root cause as all forms of procrastination. It is caused by the desire to avoid something unpleasant: you don’t want to get started, so you start searching for excuses to justify avoiding the unpleasantness.
And there really are fears, uncertainties or doubts, ...
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The costs of procrastinating
Activating the rational part of your brain to identify the costs of procrastinating is a great strategy to get unstuck.
So make a list of the tasks you’re procrastinating on, and then note how your procrastination has affected you in terms of things such as your happiness, ...
Set boundaries in regards to your screen time
Whenever you feel like you are spending way too much time on your screen, consider setting clear boundaries: it is not the same to work and to just waste your time by watching things that might even end up increasing your anxiety.
Therefore, try using a separate device for work and person...
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