We all procrastinate at times. Here’s how to get unstuck and moving again. Today, not tomorrow.
You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. You’re human. And procrastination is a very human, emotional response to discomfort and difficulty.
The more you beat yourself up about it, the more likely you are to escape once more into distraction and numbing activities to avoid those unpleasant feelings. For chronic procrastinators, this has become an ingrained habit, making the cycle even harder to break.
Understand it, and you’re a step closer to defeating it. We can control our emotions. We can choose to sit with discomfort. And we can do hard things.
As we stop procrastinating and do the things we need to do, we get to experience the slower, deeper rewards procrastinators deprive themselves of: satisfaction, fulfilment, a sense of progress. The pleasure of getting something difficult done — and getting better at it.
Read more on why we procrastinate here.
