procrastination

How to Get Motivated: A Guide for Defeating Procrastination

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Followup to: How to Generally Reduce Procrastination and How to Stop Procrastinating Right Now Jump down to the end if you want the download links.  Two of my recent posts were meant to highlight clear, actionable things we can do to defeat procrastination – whether it’s general life and environment changes or things that can […]

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How to Stop Procrastinating Right Now

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Followup to: How to Generally Reduce Procrastination As I said earlier, defeating procrastination and increasing our motivation is probably the most useful life skill we can learn. Are there specific things we can do the instant we notice we’re procrastinating? (If you’re impatient, jump right to the advice!) Hopefully you’ve already read and started implementing […]

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How to Generally Reduce Procrastination

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Defeating procrastination and increasing our motivation is probably the most useful life skill we can learn. Recommendations, advice, and methods abound on the internet and in popular self-help books. What should we do? Who should we listen to? What really works?  (Click here if you’re impatient and just want the advice!) The Procrastination Equation is […]

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Run a Dash to Beat Procrastination

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Here is a great anti-procrastination trick that I use very successfully—as long as I’m aware enough to implement it in the first place. I found this on 43Folders from Merlin Mann. The idea is to commit to a dash of work, say 10 minutes only. This is easier to commit to than thinking, “Man, I need to […]

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