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not because we lack time,
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but because we fill our days with other tasks.
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If these procrastinated actions are really important,
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then day after day they'll come knocking on our door.
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You have to call your banker,
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you have to reformat your CV.
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After having understood the reasons we procrastinate these specific tasks,
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here's the 6 strategies to face them.
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I will start from the bottom of the list
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so we can challenge preconceived ideas a little bit.
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Own your procrastination,
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especially that you now understand
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and not so good reasons are justifying your procrastination.
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Don't feel guilty.
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Don't beat yourself up.
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It is not by self-flagellating that you will grow
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the wings that are missing to get into action,
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unless you want to become a slave moving forward by receiving whiplashes.
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Maybe you can even trust your procrastination.
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95% of the time when a task has been on my to do list for more than a month,
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I choose to remove it.
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It was not that important or maybe it wasn't the right moment.
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and I know that at the right moment my wings will be ready to fly.
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and this happens to me quite often,
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sometimes things come to you
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on a silver platter.
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I procrastinated the commercial aspect.
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Clients came to me.
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I procrastinated going house hunting,
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and the ideal house came to me.
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My mind may tell me it's now you must act,
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but a wisdom within me tells me,
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In the world of procrastination,
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there are also some adepts of last minute work.
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even if they deny it,
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to speed up and do everything on the tightrope when
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a time is short and the deadline is coming up.
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It could be a strategy if it works for you.
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is finally telling yourself,
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if I'm not performing this task,
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it's because I have something else to do.
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Actually I'm not procrastinating.
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I'm making a choice,
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the choice to do such or such a task today.
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You are thus replacing I should do this with I am choosing to do that.
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If you feel that the action in question,
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the one you're procrastinating,
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is really necessary,
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perhaps the solution is to delegate,
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to have it done.
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Delegate or at least distribute
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the house chores to the rest of the family.
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Delegate the administrative tasks to a freelancer.
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Delegate the digital marketing to an agency.
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Exchange some tasks with your colleagues for more diversity.
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I know a manager who completely reorganised the work of his team of 5 people
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according to the motivation of each one.
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He rearranged the task sheets so that everyone had
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at least 90% of the tasks they like.
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This created an incredible dynamic in the team and
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decomportmentalised all the work for much more collaboration.
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the procrastination strategy can push those around us who are more motivated
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to do things for us.
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You don't take out the garbage and someone else ends up doing it instead.
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You don't call the tech guy to fix the printer and someone else ends up doing it.
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Is this a manipulation game?
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It's up to you to be your own judge.
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procrastination is often linked to a lack of interest,
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Is it time to change projects?
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Discuss the matter with your superior.
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Tell them how you feel and the reasons behind your lack of motivation.
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Check if you can reorganise your work,
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or you can share or diversify your projects.
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Ask for feedback.
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Sometimes the loss of motivation is related to the
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fact that no one tells us if it's good,
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if it serves a purpose,
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if it can be improved.
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A little interest from your entourage would be
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enough to give you back some motivation.
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Give meaning to your tasks.
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For whom or for what purpose are you performing this action?
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How does it benefit you?
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How does it benefit the company?
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Are there tasks that are not or no longer relevant and could be eliminated?
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This is often the case with reporting tables that could be deleted
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Ask for a wider margin of freedom and or more autonomy on a project.
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This is how you could sometimes regain the motivation you were lacking
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Reward yourself when we procrastinate,
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we tend to fall back on tasks that grant us instant satisfaction,
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quick and pleasant tasks.
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Grant yourself this satisfaction after tedious tasks.
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Award yourself regularly for making progress
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on the tasks you were procrastinating.
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You did your accounting for 15 minutes.
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Pat yourself on the back.
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Get yourself a pastry.
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You updated your CV.
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You've finished your project,
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treat yourself to an evening without the kids.
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cutting down on distractions.
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We procrastinate because we always find something else to do.
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These other things,
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playing video games,
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your colleagues' emergencies,
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a client's need.
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some actions are more facades concealing
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the real reasons you're procrastinating.
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Can you at least step back for a while from these distractions,
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turn off your smartphone and put it away,
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disable the Wi Fi on your laptop,
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isolate yourself in an office with no one else around.
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Idris Abikain mentions the barrier to entry and barrier to exit of an activity.
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The more passionate you are,
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the lower the barrier to entry of an activity.
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It doesn't take much for you to get started.
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The doors are wide open.
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You are inspired,
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If sailing really motivates you,
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you'll go out to sea,
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even in grey weather.
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If reading inspires you,
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you'll read even in the subway.
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The barrier to entry is low.
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If the barrier to exit of your activity is high,
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it is hard for you to get out of it.
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You'll miss your metro stop
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because you are so immersed
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you'll stop answering phone calls to finish your file.
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On the contrary,
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a task that you tend to procrastinate usually has
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a high barrier of entry.
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You always find a good reason not to get started.
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A low barrier to exit,
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you are easily distracted and tend to quickly give up the task.
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Now that you're aware of the barriers to entry and exit of your activity,
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Lower your barrier to entry by making the tasks more attractive.
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This is what we've seen previously,
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and pull up your barriers to exit
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to avoid getting distracted.
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by staying away from certain games,
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turning off the notifications on your phone,
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or isolating yourself,
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facilitating action,
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cerebral perfectionists procrastinate the most.
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Often they have not yet conceptualised what they want to
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do in their heads and how to achieve the result,
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so they keep thinking about it or doing research without taking action.
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I don't really know what I want
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I still haven't established the exact action strategy,
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I need more information to make a decision.
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These cerebral perfectionists
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have to give up this need
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to conceptualise
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a clear structure of action plan and its outcome.
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It is by getting started that you pave the way.
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it's agony for them
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starting a project
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before it's perfectly outlined without a clear idea on the expected outcome.
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It's a leap of faith.
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If the project is important to them,
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I invite them to give themselves a deadline,
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I have to turn in the first action.
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Sometimes cerebral perfectionists have a very precise,
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unrealistic even idea about how perfect they want their project to be.
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And it appears like a mountain to them.
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There's only one solution.
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Cut the elephant into pieces and eat it slowly.
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Give yourself no more than 3 or 4 tasks a day.
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Focus on the way up,
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not on the top of the mountain.
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Strategy 6 dive in.
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If you've been following all the previous strategies and yet
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that task is still on your to do list,
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then you need one last push.
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Set an appointment with yourself and dive into the action.
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Make a 10 minute commitment.
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Jump over the barrier to entry and perhaps you'll
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find yourself still working on it an hour later.
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initiate the action and see what happens.
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Some will tell you to start early in the morning,
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that it should be your first action so that no other
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low barrier task overshadows your 10 minute commitment to it.
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Others will tell you to start with quick and annoying tasks
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that will allow your engine to start up.
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Here's another way to dive into the action.
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Mel Robbins is the author of The Five Second Rule.
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She came out of her depression
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thanks to this 5 2nd rule,
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It's how she got out of bed,
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It's how she pushes herself to do actions she finds challenging.
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I call my client,
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I set an appointment with my bank.
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Because we all have a 5 2nd window
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before our mind intervenes and drags us towards other actions.
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What if I watched TV instead?
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and open my spreadsheet.
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gets the time to tell me
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let's get some coffee,
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or what if I checked my emails?
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I pick up my phone before my mind has the time to tell me that
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it's not the right time or that the client will hang up on me.
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Bypassing the suggestions of our procrastinating side or taking it by surprise.
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When it will eventually show up to suggest other activities,
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it's already too late,
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you already take an action.
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And according to Mel Robbins,
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your window is 5 seconds long before a mental aspect
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comes to discourage you to take action by suggesting another.
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No time to give in to the sirens,
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no time to ask too many questions that delay the action.
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There are certain decisions that we procrastinate for lack
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of certainty and because we don't feel ready.
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You will never be ready to start a business,
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but you can still set an appointment with an entrepreneurship agency
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that can help you to set up your own company.
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If these 6 strategies are not efficient enough for you,
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if procrastination has dramatic consequences on your life,
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Are you suffering from addiction?
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Are you exhausted?
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Has your life lost all meaning?
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Are you depressed?
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There are unconscious binds paralysing you.
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Your chronic procrastination is sending you an important message.
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In those extreme cases,
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small or average procrastinators,
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we've just seen the six strategies to face procrastination.
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getting it done,
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cutting down on distractions,
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facilitating action,
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and just diving into the action.
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