Name: How to Stop Procrastinating & Get Work Done | Productivity Tips & Hacks
Uploaded: 2018-02-24T03:04:56.000Z
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how to beat procrastination and get your work
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So first off, if you want to learn how to
beat procrastination, you have to see it

Resistance is something that Steven Pressfield
talks about

"the thing that keeps you from doing your
work".

that you want to get this work done but, for
some reason, you avoid it at all costs.

For some reason, you find yourself deciding
to do something else, checking Instagram,

checking Facebook, eating something out of
your fridge.

that work is so important that you're scared
to do it.

or a personal project that means a lot to
you, you're probably going to feel

some resistance there that causes you to procrastinate.

For example, I feel resistance when I have
to tackle a big long-term project

My workbook is something that I've been thinking
about

I've known that I had to redesign it, but
it just took me so long

and then I get distracted, or I would procrastinate.

I really had to lock myself down and finish
it because I set this due date for myself

and I was like, "No, I must get it done by
this time."

There are some pretty good techniques that
helped me buckle down

and get my work done and I'm gonna share them
today.

The short and easy answer to beating procrastination
is to take action.

And I know that's super simple and you're
like, "Duh."

But it's incredibly difficult to take action.

My best advice on how to get yourself started
on taking action

is to look at what you have to do and ask
yourself, "What is the smallest, easiest,

Make it so easy, so simple that it takes one
second to do it.

For example: If your big project is to write

a huge research paper, then maybe that easy,
small step is to open up your Word document

or type the date, type your name, type that
first word.

into the easiest, easiest task ever and start
there.

once you've written your word, ask yourself
that same question again:

"Okay, now what is the easiest step that I
could take towards this goal?"

You'll find that once you've taken a baby
step, you can take the next baby step,

And if you keep doing that, you'll build momentum

and then you're gonna find yourself in flow
and then you're gonna be working

on the thing that you've been procrastinating
on.

I do realize that it could be pretty painful
and difficult to take action,

even if it's just baby steps, so another strategy
that's helped me

is to set a time deadline for myself meaning
I'll tell myself, "I'll only work on this

for the next thirty minutes or the next hour."

And I'll just look at the time, if it's 8:00,

But do it for an hour and by the time it's
9:00, I can let myself go."

Setting that time gives me a space to work
in.

when I get to the end of my time, I have built
my momentum by taking those baby steps

and I'm in flow, so I usually want to keep
working.

So if you don't feel like working on your
project,

just give yourself a baby amount of time.

for fifteen minutes or thirty minutes," and
if that's all you can do, then that's it.

But usually, most likely, you're probably
gonna want to continue working longer.

The goal here is to be able to reach your
flow state.

where you are super focused, super in the
zone, and working at your optimal capacity.

I don't know if you've ever had that feeling
where you're just so 100% in your work,

you have momentum, you're on a roll, and things
are going great.

It's what some people call "Deep Work", and
that is a state of intense focus

So that's the goal of where you want to be

when you're trying to beat procrastination.

First, be aware that it is procrastination
and it is resistance, and then you can take

the next small baby steps and set that time
deadline for yourself so that eventually,

you're gonna feel the momentum and you're
going to put yourself in flow state.

Some other strategies to help yourself get
into flow and get work done

My favorite, favorite playlists to work to
are on Spotify.

The other one is called Piano in the Background.

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