productivity

Always timely with anxiety

You’ll never catch a procrastinator saying, “I really need to get around to feeling anxious.” No! Why? Because we are almost always there. Either that or we are trying to avoid being there which is putting us there anyway. One of the greatest sources of anxiety for us procrastinators comes from beating ourselves up about [...]

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Borrow thumb screws

Here is your procrastinators success tool of the day: If you are having trouble getting yourself to do a specific task, such as writing or exercising, tell a friend that you *will* be doing it. Better yet, invite them to join you! While you may be tempted to break an agreement with yourself, you are [...]

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Default Activity For LPD

LPD=Low Productivity Days You know the day. You are sitting on the couch wondering what you should do with yourself. You can’t think of any one thing that holds enough sparkle to get you off the couch. So you sit and beat yourself up. Procrastinators are masterful self-flagellators. Here is a tip to save the [...]

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Don't talk me out of my feelings!

Yeah! This is one of my biggest pet-peeves of human interaction in our culture. What happens is this: friend A, let’s call her Abby, comes to friends B, let’s call her Bertha, feeling sad. Abby tells Bertha that she is feeling really overwhelmed with all she has to do. She feel hopeless sometimes, like she [...]

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Sometimes it isn't laziness. Really!

Have you ever had one of those days where you were just plain spent? Do you ever become mistrustful of yourself when you feel this way or tell yourself you are just being lazy? For me, today was the second of two days where my “get up and go” got up and went. I haven’t [...]

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