YESTalk-132 - How to Overcome Chronic Procrastination

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So here's a guy who says, this is my toughest thing, getting over procrastination, right? Maybe you can relate. How do I get over this procrastination? He said, and I've read all the books, I've read all the articles, and I'm sorry. Still there. Today's talk is for all of you procrastinators out there, and that has been me for a big part of my life. And if you struggle with chronic procrastination, this video is going to change everything for you. Very, very simply, how do you beat, how do you conquer? How do you overcome. How do you crush chronic procrastination? Because I got a comment or a question from one of my students, my 66 days of transformation program, which is about how to create habits of success rather than habits of failure. And here's the question. He says, this is the hardest for me to knock out. And he's talking about procrastination. I read so much books and articles about procrastination in my life, and I must admit, I'm still there. So here's a guy who says, this is my toughest thing, getting over procrastination, right? Maybe you can relate. How do I get over this procrastination? He said, and I've read all the books, I've read all the articles, and I'm still there. So how do you beat it? How do you crush it? And here it is. There's three steps, okay? Three steps to overcome chronic procrastination. And I call it chronic because that just means you struggle with it over and over and over and over again, not just one time. So, number one, stop trying to find the secret to. To overcoming procrastination. You see, here's what happens if you're watching this video. This is the last video, the last thing you should ever read or watch or try to figure out how to overcome procrastination. Because if you struggle with procrastination, watching this video, reading another book, reading another article on how to overcome procrastination is just another tactic of procrastinating. Because, see, the thing that you know you should be doing, the thing that you procrastinating about is not getting done while you're studying how to overcome procrastination. So, number one, if you want to beat procrastination, stop procrastinating by studying procrastination. I know that's tough, but that's the truth. Number two, start doing what you're supposed to do right now, today, stop trying to figure out how to beat procrastination and just start doing the thing you're supposed to do. Just follow what Nike says. Just do it. I know this is a little intense, but it's the truth, right? You know what I'm telling you is the truth. You're never going to conquer procrastination by figuring it out. You're never going to conquer procrastination by studying it or by learning more about it. You're going to only conquer procrastination by action, by doing it. And the reason we procrastinate is because we're afraid of something. We want to avoid something because we think something's going to be uncomfortable or something's going to be unpleasant or it's going to be painful. That's why we procrastinate. The only way you're going to ever get past that fear because past that discomfort is through massive action. Action conquers fear. Action conquers procrastination. And there is nothing else ever that's going to do it. There is no secret. There is no little bullet nugget of knowledge that you're missing. There is no recipe or strategy other than do it right now. Stop trying to figure out procrastination and start taking action to accomplish what you should be doing. And then, number three, celebrate the action. Celebrate the fact that you did it, that you took proactive action and you did something about it. And so let me just break it down into a couple of little examples. So if you're a chronic procrastinator, you probably procrastinate on all kinds of stuff. Like, even if something as simple as picking up dirty clothes or leaving dirty dishes in the sink, right? I know you, right? You put. You leave stuff laying around and you go like, I'll do it later. And that's the habit. It's a habit of procrastination. So how do you crush the habit as you stop. Stop doing that stuff? And so every time that you pick up an item that normally you just leave laying there, every time you go ahead and wash a dish that dirty dishes and put them away when there's just two or three of them instead of when there's a whole sink piled full of them, Right? Every time you do that, it is what I call your diligence activator is you're activating a habit of diligence in your life. And every time you do it, celebrate it, even if it's a little thing, okay? If it's a little thing like let's say that you see a piece of trash that fell on the floor, you go like. And you just. And your habit is you just walk past it and you leave it laying there and a week later it's still laying there. Don't do that anymore. You see it, pick it up, it needs to be picked up, it needs to be gone. Do it right away. If you have a habit of leaving stuff out on your desk, don't do that anymore. You see this and go like oh, that should be put up. You take it and you put it up where it goes right now. And every time you do that, that's a victory because you took a pro active action. And when you have that victory, you got to celebrate it. You got to acknowledge yourself and say yes. Diligence Activator and literally one of the things I train in my 66 days of transformation online program is that you actually gamify the creation of great habits. So one of the things you can do is actually keep score. And every time that you give, every time you do something that used to you procrastinated, give yourself a point and just keep score. How many points do I score that day for taking action and conquering procrastination? If that video helps you, if this helps you, would you give this a thumbs up? Just make sure you give it a thumbs up. Post any comments or questions Challenges if this still doesn't make sense, I don't know if I can help you, but post it down below. Questions or comments? Make sure you subscribe to the channel. If you've not done that before, share this with a friend that you know needs to conquer procrastination and I'll see you on the next video.

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