7 ways to move beyond procrastination


	7 ways to move beyond procrastination

Newfman

4-28-2007 7:17 PM

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4-30-2007 10:42 PM

wurdzgurl

I'm currently procrastinating from putting together a presentation I'm giving tomorrow. I suppose I should use this clip.

5-1-2007 12:22 AM

n2sooners

Popped for later reading...

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Procrastination strikes everywhere. We all want to avoid the pain or discomfort of doing something we feel is boring, stupid, pointless, hard, complicated, risky, possibly really emotionally painful and so on.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2006/10/12/7-ways-to-move-beyond-procrastination/"><P align="left" class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB">But even though we know that we will have to do it eventually and that we’re just deluding ourselves we still put it of. Often with reasons we know deep down are weak and we really just made up. We get stuck in a vicious circle of doing too little of both what we want and what we don’t want. We get stuck. Here are 7 ways to squash procrastination and move forward.</SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-GB"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2006/10/12/7-ways-to-move-beyond-procrastination/">1. Recognize that there is more pain in procrastinating than not</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2006/10/12/7-ways-to-move-beyond-procrastination/">2. 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