The Cure for Procrastination

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One of the most important things to learn in life is that the cure for procrastination is often just the tiniest dosage of action.

Whenever there’s something you know you should do but you don’t feel motivated to do it, force yourself to do it for a few minutes.

Tell yourself, after a few minutes pass, you can stop if you don’t want to keep going.

Often, you’ll find that you had just built the whole thing up in your head, it’s not really that bad, you just imagined it worse so that you could rationalize not getting started. And now that you’ve gotten started, you might as well keep going.

Basically, you think you’re going to be at war with your brain the whole time, but once you say “shut up we’re doing this” and you proceed to start doing it, your brain says “okay fine” and shuts up.

And once it shuts up, stops digging in its heels, and accepts what you’re doing, it finds things to like about it.

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