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Hungry Brain Publishing
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Action/Thriller
Publisher: Hungry Brain Publishing
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 58
Copyright: 11/15/2017
Price: FREE! (eBook)
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Where procrastination comes from and how it is triggered.
Understand your bad habits, eliminate and replace them.
You will get to know all the different types of procrastinative behaviors.
How to discover your life's purpose and surround yourself with the right people.
You will understand the 20 key principles of successful people and what they do differently.
Reboot your brain and structure your daily routine so you never fall victim to laziness ever again.
All this and much more in a fluff-free, easy to read and compact guide.
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Don't Wait Until Tomorrow, Begin Today!
Discover the Benefits of Having Complete Control Over Your Life's Direction
Do you want to have control over your life situation?
Do you suffer from a lack of motivation?
Do you want to know why you are so good at always finding excuses?
Do you want to find out the reasons why you are feeling lazy all the time?
Do you desperately need to understand why you have no energy to devote to what is important?
It has been proven time and time again, that the person who knows how to get things done is always the one everybody likes to depend on. Taking responsibility for our own actions and being effective is essential to personal growth and success. This book will help you dig down to the roots of your procrastination tendencies and understand how to weed them out. You will learn how to develop good habits. You will declutter your life, and get rid of the bad people and influences that keep you from moving forward.
Excerpt
CHAPTER 1: UNDERSTANDING PROCRASTINATION
Procrastination is not a disease, but it can feel as such due to the high control it has over your actions and even physiology. Procrastination is not an unsolvable problem. It is a challenge, an obstacle along the way of your development that you need to understand how to control. Once you are able to do this you will be amazed how many gates to new opportunities will open up for you. Be grateful that you have acknowledged procrastination and that you are taking steps to improve, grow, and become the best possible version of yourself. Figuring out your boundaries and limits and pushing to overcome them is always a step in the right direction.
Procrastination is an evolutionary trait and mechanism we have evolved, and is highly connected to our survival instincts. It is rarely something that we consciously choose to indulge in.
Your body and physiology are wired to seek safety, wellbeing, and survival by using the most energy-efficient and shortest route possible. It will avoid potential danger at all cost. This is why we are most active when there is a threat, such as an upcoming deadline, or terrible consequences from not doing something. Chances are that the more terrified you are of failing to do something on time, the more likely you will start working on it immediately. A good example for a survival mechanism would be pain, which is there for exactly the same reasons. Physical pain prevents you from doing stupid and harmful things. When you do hurt yourself pain is there to immobilize you, so you don’t move around and cause additional damage while your wound is healing. Although you might believe it gets in the way and is unnecessary suffering, you should know that it does have a built-in switch off mechanism. For example, when you are under the influence of adrenaline you completely forget about pain. Also, when you are overloaded with pain, such as being eaten alive by a bear in a helpless situation your brain will switch off and you will pass out. Furthermore, in certain situations, if you pass out even before being attacked you stand a better chance of surviving. Let’s say that some predators don’t attack prey that they believe is already dead, to begin with. Play dead and the bear won’t eat you, right?
Although those mechanisms might do you good out in the open, they have not evolved quickly enough to be as effective and adaptable to our modern lifestyle. There can be many other examples and explanations that will spark many debates, but enough with the horror stories.
Think about procrastination as a protective mechanism, designed to shield you from unnecessary struggles and battles that have the risk of harm-inducing consequences. This doesn't mean that it is there to keep you away from challenges and competition; instead, its role is to encourage you to find the shortest and most risk-free route to reaching your final goal, often allowing you to wait until the "right circumstances" come along.
Our body understands and mostly reacts to simple, primitive cravings and goals, such as getting food, finding shelter, and avoiding danger. These reactions are generally only associated with the present moment or very near future. If you are well-fed, warm, and safe at the present moment laziness kicks in. Why do you need to waist energy in a resource-scarce environment when you have all that you need right now? Instead, you should relax and recover. You will notice that the next time you get very active is when you are urged to by primitive cravings such as hunger, feeling cold, or not getting eaten by that bear!
RAWR !...
Our body and physiology are mostly concerned with what is happening right now: they are unfit to comprehend the possible future outcomes of more complex situations, such as figuring out the long-term consequences of an action or inaction.
Our body and physiology's responses are more emotionally- rather than logically driven. They are capable of immediately triggering emotions such as anger, fear, and sadness. This is the reason why we often find it difficult to see the logic in our reactions when we are overpowered by strong feelings.
These mechanisms were designed to protect us in our naturally intended environment in nature. However, due to the huge leap in technology and the big changes in social lifestyle, our evolutionary traits are struggling to adapt and keep up, so they often get in the way rather than help. These emotionally-driven mechanisms are spontaneous; since they have not evolved the capability to analyze specifics and calculate in detail the entire situation, the responses they trigger are of a primal nature.
Your brain is the one that deals with logic, but in order to make the body understand and react to the situation, it must use imagination to paint images. Your brain uses these images to generate an emotional charge and communicates this feeling to the body so that it can experience, understand, and initiate the necessary action. Keep in mind that the body understands and reacts to simple emotions: one or two at maximum, at a time.
When there is a more complex situation involving many nuanced emotions, the brain is not able to logically distribute them. These messages are not delivered to the body one by one. Instead, they get dumped simultaneously, which in greater volumes can cause our nervous system to overload and generate the circumstances need to experience a breakdown. Further to this, we tend to freeze completely because our body's nervous system cannot cope with so much information at once; it doesn't know what to respond to first, causing it to become overwhelmed and either bursting into chaos or shutting down altogether.
To successfully exercise self-control, you have to learn to track down where and how emotions and urges are triggered in your thought process. How are they communicated to your body? Defeating procrastination has a lot to do with how in tune you are with yourself and how you communicate internally. Your productivity will skyrocket if you teach yourself to structure your thoughts, plans, and ideas, code them into emotions, and communicate them to your body in an emotional language that it can understand. It all sounds complicated but we have all actually done this at one point in our life when we were much younger. You will remember how to do this at a later stage in this book.
It might sound surprising, but sometimes procrastination and carefully taking your time is a smart decision to make whenever your approach to your situation requires caution and careful planning. For example, if you have a complex task to complete that requires certain tools and know-how that you need to acquire first, it would be wise to take your time. However, you can only allow yourself to procrastinate once you have taken all necessary steps to acquire these tools and knowledge, and have decided on a deadline. In the meantime, you should concentrate on other productive activities while you wait.
Time is your most valuable and limited resource, so spend it wisely. You cannot buy time. Eventually, all our clocks will stop.
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