Making decisions
It has been two and a half months since I attended the Conscious Growth Workshop of Steve Pavlina in Las Vegas. The workshop gave me a lot: fun, clarity, incredible connections. Regarding my personal growth, the biggest change is a dramatic improvement of my ability to make decisions. In Steve’s words “sitting in a place of indecision is unintelligent”. The “I don’t know” state tends to perpetuate itself since nothing changes while I am shaking [...]
10 minutes a day revisited
During my last coaching sessions I discovered a new aspect of the powerful “10 minutes a day” technique. Notice the difference: I decided to work an hour a day on my project and I managed three times this week. The other days I didn’t even get to half an hour. I decided to work at least ten minutes a day on my project and I managed six days out of seven, two of them I [...]
The ultimate post on procrastination
Speaking about procrastination, there are three strategies to cope with it: Fight it Use it Love it Fight it If you are avoiding that awful, boring, horribly non-sexy task and you definitely have to get it done, follow these steps: Choose a short time, T. Make it so short that failing to work that time is embarrassing. Something like 30 minutes. Sounds doable, doesn’t it? Set a timer for the time you chose. Work concentrated [...]
A pragmatic approach to procrastination
Procrastination is an addiction like any other. Procrastinators are addicted to low threshold, short term satisfaction. They, or rather we need the feeling of having achieved something (cleaning the closet, that all time classic), learning something (surfing the web, the modern variant), or having fun (playing games, etc.). We use these pleasant sensations to override some not-so-pleasant ones. Instead of accepting that we are overwhelmed, instead of facing fear, or the fact that the task [...]
Make overwhelming tasks affordable: from everything to happiness
What happens if you tell yourself: I should clean the flat? Let me guess: you don’t even start. What happens if you look at the mirror in the bathroom, see the tooth pasta stains, imagine it clean and shiny? You might feel like cleaning it. You might clean it and feel happy about it. You might even look for other corners, which might be waiting for you to discover how they can make you happy. [...]
