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13 Radical Solutions To Finally End Procrastination
3 min readOct 29, 2022
- Do It Anyway — You know why you can’t procrastinate and why you need to work. Get over your feelings and do it anyway. The truth is that you never really want to start, for there are always more fun activities. Start anyway.
- Treat Work Seriously — The only difference between an official meeting, for example, and the work you procrastinate on is that you treat one as a non-negotiable while you allow yourself to not take the other one seriously.
- Make It A Must — Do not leave yourself a second option. You have to work now. Period. There is no other choice! Not working is not an option. You must do this now.
- Allow It To Suck — Stop your perfectionistic thinking and allow the work to be awful. At the end of the day producing a pile of crap is worth more than not producing anything, especially mentally speaking. If you always allow yourself to get away with not working when you are afraid to produce something of low quality you are essentially training your mind to procrastinate. Stop training the procrastination muscle and allow the work you do to be awful so you do it anyway.
- Stop Identifying With Your Work — You are more than your work or title. You are more than the things you produce and do not produce. Whether or not you are a hard-worker, successful or just produce a bunch of…
