Posted by Dinah on January 3, 2004, at 13:53:14
In reply to Re: can anyone help with procrastination?? » DramaQueen, posted by Larry Hoover on January 3, 2004, at 13:36:19
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> I truly believe that beating myself up over getting nothing done was the actual cause of my not being able to get anything done. Sure, I had lots to do to get back on track, but I wasn't wasting energy worrying about it.
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I need to really grasp that concept, because I really think it's true. The weight of not doing something is so heavy that it's hard to squirm out from under it to actually get anything done.> That's another part of the problem, seeing the immensity of a task, without recognizing that all tasks are done in little bits. One simple way to change procrastination is to not let yourself pass things that are out of place without picking one up, and putting it back. Not all of them. One of them.
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> A wise person once told me that she could move mountains. Silencing my protest, she continued, "Anyone can, one stone at a time."
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That is awfully wise. That's the other thing I do, see the load of what I need to do as that big boulder in Indiana Jones, and the only thing to do is run as fast as I can. I need to see it more as a bunch of little stones (or at least moderate size or large ones, not crushingly gigantic ones).
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