Procrastination: The Four Reflection Points
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a proven tool to resolve the psychological problem of procrastination, but it is time-consuming and not very scalable.
A quicker way is to ask these four questions to oneself:
- How would a highly successful person complete this task?
- How would you feel if the task is not completed?
- What is the next small and immediate step that needs to be done?
- If there was one thing that could be done to achieve the goal on time, what would it be?
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