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Four Antidotes to Procrastination - Brightness & Balance Psychotherapy The article gives four "antidotes"to the common problem of procrastination, to help readers find their motivation to live the life they want to lead.

I'll be back next week with the last one, "Make It Make You Happy", but if you'd like to read more about all four antidotes now, the link is in the comments below. I hope it helps. brightnessbalance.com/procrastinat...

How will we be falling short of who we want to be, or the life we want to live? How will we be stacking up problems for our future selves? How will we be missing out on opportunities for an expanded, more enriched life?

even if that isn't immediately obvious, or the benefit isn't soon.

So when the short term benefits of NOT doing it feel all too vivid, asking ourselves what will be the longer term consequences if we don't, or if we keep delaying, helps us to find our focus.

I've written about the four 'antidotes' I use to help clients overcome procrastination and which I use myself. The third is 'Make it Matter.'

This is about spending a few moments focussing on your motivation: why The Thing we're putting off doing is worth doing because it serves our values

FOUR ANTIDOTES TO #PROCRASTINATION: WEEK 3

So following on from 'Make it Badly' and 'Make it Tiny' I've covered in the last two weeks, how else can you manage your procrastination so it doesn't stop you leading the life you want to live and being the person you want to be?

Four Antidotes to Procrastination - Brightness & Balance Psychotherapy The article gives four "antidotes"to the common problem of procrastination, to help readers find their motivation to live the life they want to lead.

I hope it helps. I'll be back next week with "Make It Matter", but if you'd like to read about all four antidotes now, you can find them at brightnessbalance.com/procrastinat... (end)

breaking it down into the most miniscule constituent actions and doing just one at a time. In both cases, it's about getting some traction while managing the spikey anxiety or tedious drudgery that is so off-putting and making a start and gathering momentum. (6/7)

an external jump-start to provide motivation, such as panic caused by an imminent deadline or unacceptable loss.

This means taking The Huge Thing and either committing to a tiny, manageable amount of time spent tackling it on a regular basis or (5/7)

Because in the past I've also found myself stuck, unable to take a step forward. I really know how it feels. Following last week's post on 'Make it Badly', the second antidote is called 'Make it Tiny'. This is the antidote to feeling that any task is too huge to tackle without...(4/7)

causing anything from a minor drag on productivity to being nearly paralysed by it. Procrastination can leave the sufferer frustrated, baffled and angry at themselves.

So I've written about the four 'antidotes' I use to help clients overcome it, and which I use myself. (3/7)

As a psychotherapist, my clients often come to me feeling overwhelmed. Sometimes it's by difficult emotions or external life events but also sometimes by what they see as a battle with themselves. One of those battles is with procrastination.. (2/7)

FOUR ANTIDOTES TO PROCRASTINATION

Are you starting the week with determination and energy? Is this the week you will get That Thing that's been nagging at you finally crossed off your To Do List?

Or can you feel your procrastination already lining up reasons you won't? (1/7)

Four Antidotes to Procrastination - Brightness & Balance Psychotherapy The article gives four "antidotes"to the common problem of procrastination, to help readers find their motivation to live the life they want to lead.

4) I support clients to internalise that confidence-sustaining fact.
I'll be back next week with "Make It Tiny", but if you'd like to read about all four antidotes now, you can find them at brightnessbalance.com/procrastinat...

3) ...That, and recognising that we are far, far more than our actions. That our worth as human beings should not be judged by the last challenge we attempted. We are life-long; our actions, and their consequences are of temporary importance....

2) ...internal self-critic that says that unless we can do something brilliantly we shouldn't make a start at all.

Instead, beginning by giving ourselves permission to be utterly mediocre is liberating; to recognise that inspired results are often preceded by the distinctly underwhelming...

1) Four Antidotes to Procrastination

As a psychotherapist, I see a lot of #procrastination so I thought I'd share about the four 'antidotes' I use to help clients overcome it in the hope it's helpful.

The first I call "Make It Badly". This is the antidote to perfectionism and that awful...