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Becoming stalled or worse still unable to start kills your motivation and application. Procrastination really numbs and hurts. You know what you want to do, but somehow you cannot get started or continue. Something else always pops up as a distraction. Perhaps you collapse into a blubbering heap in frustration and disappointment.
It is well known that procrastination significantly decreases our health, how we feel about ourselves, how happy we are, our mood, and in the long-term wealth and well-being. The cure for procrastination is motivation and application. Don't Just Think About It => Just Do It - Now! Motivation can be defined as the desire AND willingness to act and move towards achieving a goal. But, achieving our goals do not necessarily require a well-focused all-in motivation. You can get the big things done effectively, even when you don’t feel like doing doing it with a full dose of enthusiasm NOW. Making a start and having a routine helps to trigger your motivation. For example, many creative writers have a fixed schedule of when they write. It they waited around until they felt like it - nothing would ever happen. This is where the "Just DO IT" comes in.
Avoidance and delay in getting started and making progress gradually magnifies our anxiety, making us even more likely to procrastinate. The pattern escalates and builds as a cycle. Doubt breeds doubt. The fear of the Undone blocks the path to the "yellow brick road". To curtail this vicious cycle and end it at the outset requires discipline and a way of identifying the problems. Why are you dodging a specific activity? Which task is the problem. Often we can skirt around the blockage by entering via a detour pathway. Start something else and head back to the blockage via another route. At least you will get something on the way which will build your confidence and enthusiasm.
Proactive-focused people see their goals as creating ways to gain an advantage, to advance themselves or their business. They concentrate on the rewards that they will get when they achieve them. Promotion-focused procrastination is about an inability to summon the drive to get started, or to move to the next level.
Prevention-focused people see their goals as responsibilities, and they focus on staying safe and preventing mistakes and setbacks. Prevention-focused procrastination is about preventing a loss.
One of the keys is to avoid multi-tasking. It is too easy to take on the easy task rather than on the one you need to do. Scheduling and a flat single path todo list is the key. Avoid thinking about it too much. Don't weigh up all the things fore and against, the pros and cons. Stick to your schedule and keep to your starting time. Begin on time and simply work through your list of priorities one at a time, without succumbing to distractions. Commit to and implement the schedule you created.
Once you take a tiny step forward, the momentum will start a'rolling along. The principle of sustained momentum is that sustained incremental effort will help you efficiently achieve your goals.
The Physics of Productivity relies on momentum, just like the physical kind. Objects in motion (that is with momentum) tend to stay in motion. Once a task has begun, and there is a clear pathway ahead, and you have begun, it is easier to continue to progress forward towards your goal. Keep the momentum going!
Motivation itself will not the fuel for success. Neither is it willpower, restraint or self-management practices. Motivation is flame that is kindled after you manually, painfully, and carefully rub two sticks together to coax the flame into existence. It takes the sparks from a flint or friction from the rubbing action to create heat to ignite the sawdust. Motivation then becomes the fuel feeding on the satisfaction you get from make progress.
The drive to pursue a challenging goal often begins as a tiny spark that quickly grows into a fire.