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Stages of anxiety and procrastination

  • You give a task the power to determine your worth and happiness
  • You use perfectionism to raise the stakes of a mistake. You make it seem that any mistake equals death
  • You feel frozen with anxiety because your natural threat assessment system produces adrenaline to deal with threats to you
  • You use procrastination to escape your dilemma
  • Finally, you use a real threat such as a deadline to overcome your fears and start the task.

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Log your time

Log your time

The easiest way to procrastinate less and boost productivity is to keep a log of how you spend your time. 

So for a few days, simply record exactly how you’re spending every minute of your day. This will alert you to many areas of inefficiency and lost time.

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“In order to maximize your performance in a stressful world, you must create a protected and indisputable sense of worth for yourself. Until you do, energy and concentration will be drained from work and put into preparing for imagined threats to your survival, and into procrastination as a means...

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“Working in the flow state or in the zone removes the emotional need to procrastinate and accelerates your progress toward your goals.”

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Procrastination: a learned coping mechanism

Procrastination: a learned coping mechanism

Procrastination is a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision.

Certain tasks make us feel anxious. As a strategy for coping with this anxiety, many of us have developed a habit of procrastinating: put off the task...

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Use worrisome thoughts as action triggers

Use worrisome thoughts as action triggers

When you catch yourself worrying, prepare yourself for that danger. Once you know you’re ready for the worst-case scenario, you’ll calm down and be able to get to work.

Consider these questions:

  • What is the worst that could happen?
  • What would...

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“If early training has caused you to associate work with pain and humiliation, then just approaching an intimidating or unpleasant task can bring on a reliving of criticism, not only from your current boss but from parents, previous bosses, and teachers. Every insecurity bubbles up to your co...

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Change how you talk to yourself

Change how you talk to yourself

The self-talk of procrastinators suggests and reinforces feelings of burden, victimhood, and resistance to authority. Learning to challenge and replace negative internal dialogue helps you free yourself from attitudes that may currently be holding you back.

  • Replace...

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“Keep on starting and finishing will take care of itself.”

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No one is an absolute procrastinator

There are always activities that we willingly dive into with enthusiasm.

Habits are learned when an activity is instantly followed by a reward. Procrastination is rewarding because it provides temporary relief from our stress and anxiety. We use procrastina...

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The unschedule

It is a time-planning method developed to tackle many procrastination-related problems.

Instead of scheduling the very thing you’re procrastinating on (work), you first schedule fixed commitments (e.g., meals, commute, sleep), self-care activities (e.g., me...

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Guilt-free play

We are more likely to be productive when we can anticipate pleasure and success rather than isolation and anxiety in our work.

To minimize procrastination, structure your rewards such that you will be motivated to start on the task each day.

Enjoying guilt-fr...

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