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I’ve always been a procrastinator. I’m mostly functional. Decent career, business and family. About ten years ago I realized the truth that works for me: Mood
by encoderer 4y ago
I’ve always been a procrastinator. I’m mostly functional. Decent career, business and family.
About ten years ago I realized the truth that works for me:
Mood follows motion.
You can’t wait until you feel good to do the thing. It’s the doing of the thing that makes you feel good.
- dweinus 4y agoThat has worked well for me too. I am a chronic procrastinator. When faced with a new task, I "trick" myself by saying I will just endure the tiny bit of pain to get started in some stupid, basic way (e.g. create a blank document or write a list of the real work I have to do). Most times, after 5 minutes of pain, I will be over the hump and just keep working because I want to see it through.
- kayodelycaon 4y agoI had this realization as well. My method is to try for 30 minutes. If it doesn't click by then, it's not going to. If I tried and failed, I'm not the problem, my disability is.