Put-Off Procrastination Until Later
Put-Off Procrastination Until Later
Selective Focus Magazine strives to provide you with helpful personal improvement tips and self-help information, that you can use as you pursue a better way to live your life. I was inspired to publish this article, while procrastinating posting another article. We will provide you with a simple three step process to overcome procrastination.
Most of us, at one time or another, have felt like putting-off a tasks for “later,” only to realize that well after “later” the task is still not completed? Has this ever happened to you? At what cost? Imagine life without procrastination and without the stress and anxiety that goes with it.
In this age of the Internet, we can no longer use the excuse, “I don’t know how to do it.” What is it, that is stopping us from completing tasks until the so-called “later?” While knowing how is a factor influencing procrastination, there are two factor that have greater influence on action and inaction. Those factors are free-will and intention.
Most often, progress and action is determined by free will and intention and the answers to the following 5 questions:
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS; POTENT ANSWERS:
- What is our level of commitment to finding out how to do something?
- What is our level of commitment to planning and scheduling the “doing?’
- What is our level of commitment to actually “doing” it? That is, are we willing to do “it”? If so, does our commitment have self-imposed limitations, such as only to putting in a fair effort, good effort or excellent effort; or is our commitment to put in an outstanding effort without any self-imposed limitations?
- Why did we choose that level of commitment? For example, guilt of not doing it? To gain pleasure or avoid pain?
- How do we think it make us feel to have acted with that level of commitment and having completed the action?
The answers to these questions will describe our free-will and intentions and in the world of procrastination, are even more important than knowing how to do something. So the next time we find ourselves typing in the search terms “how to do . . .,” we should stop and consider our level of commitment to the “doing,” whey we are doing it and how we believe we will feel having completed the tasks.
Next, consider that the level of commitment is, typically, the single most important factor that will determine the quality of the results of the commitment. That is, typically, putting in a fair effort will typically fail to result in anything meaningful; a good effort will allow for only fair results; an excellent effort will give birth to good results; however, an outstanding effort will typically give rise to excellent results. Then, lets consider what level of commitment we would like to apply to the given task.
Now, lets pretend, just for a moment, that we get to choose what level of commitment we will apply to the task at hand. Finally, know that we are all free to choose our intentions regardless of our circumstances and ONLY WE HAVE THE ANSWERS TO THE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS.
How can you start to incorporate this approach into your life?
Put-off procrastination until tomorrow and start now by following these 3 simple steps:
- Start now, by selecting three things on your to-do list.
- Next, choose your level of commitment, by answering the Essential Questions set forth above, for each of the three things on your list.
- Imagine you have followed through with that level of commitment and are enjoying the result. Envision and feel how that would look and feel?
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