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What You Say to Yourself to Prevent Procrastination. Have very clear goals what you want.
What You Say to Yourself to Prevent Procrastination
Here is one very important method you must practice to eliminate the procrastinating habit. You must eliminate destructive or negative vocabulary from your self-talk. Let me elaborate: When you say you can't, your mind comes up with reasons why things cannot be done even if you are mechanically doing your job. When you say, "I can't afford it", your subconscious mind actually picks up negative thoughts. It makes the mind lazy. You stop thinking of ways to solve the solution. You see, the reason why many children do not believe in themselves is because for every yes a child hears, he or she would have listened to 17 Nos. Think back how many times you have heard the word no? Can I go over to Tommy's house? No. Can I stay up late tonight? No. I wanna grow up to be an astronaut. Stop dreaming I wanna earn a million dollars. Not in your lifetime (because the dad isn't a millionaire himself) That is the reason why people keep on thinking they cannot do it. It is ingrained in their mind. Negative self-talk must be replaced with positive self-talk. Instead of saying: I can't, say how can I I can't afford it, say how can we afford it It's too hard, say let's look for alternatives The economy is bad, say let's anticipate a turnaround I have no skills, say I will learn how to do it I am too young/old, say this is the best time for me to start I have bad luck, say I make my OWN luck I don't have time, say I WILL find ways to make time I am not good enough, say I WILL be good enough It is all part of your self-talk. You are your own greatest ally or your worst enemy! Think of your mind like 2 big dogs fighting one another. A white dog is your positive thoughts and the other is a black ugly dog. They are always fighting one another. Which one wins? Only the one you feed. So if you keep feeding your mind with negative stuff, you will always procrastinate because you believe you can't get things done. If you feed your mind with positive thoughts, no matter how many negative thoughts you have heard in the past will slowly overcome the negative and you will succeed and take action. Have very clear goals what you want Here is a very interesting story about goals: An archer was shooting an arrow at a target. He was a sharpshooter and one day, someone decided to challenge him by blindfolding his eyes. Can you imagine how hard it is for him to see the target? Now… if it is hard to hit a target blindfolded, would it be preposterous to shoot an arrow if you don't even know what the target looks like? That is why goals are important for you. If you do not have clear goals, most of your activities will usually be wishy-washy without any clear sense of direction. You will tend to procrastinate if you do not have very clear intentions what you want to do with your TIME. Sometimes, procrastinators waste time doing ineffective things not because they intentionally want to but because they really don't know themselves what they want to do with your life. You need a compass to steer your life or else you will be spinning your wheels.
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