How to Stop Procrastinating

When unlearning a habit, the best way to accomplish the task is by replacing it with something new.

If you are a procrastinator, start by replacing the habit’s manifestations in the small and banal things like:

1. After your alarm clock goes off, get up from bed

2. As soon as you get up from bed, make your bed

3. Right after you eat, clean the dishes

4. As soon as you notice dirt in the house, clean it up

5. Settle your bills as soon as you get them

Begin attending to things immediately by applying it to the small, inconsequential things.

Later, as the new habit begins to take hold, notice bigger things where you often put off action and start with the easiest ones you can handle.Forget fixing your life all in one shot. It never really works. Quick fixes are as easy to quit as they are to dream up.

Forget waiting for inspiration. It doesn’t come to the idle. Inspiration amplifies action but it never spurs it. Notice how much more passionate and involved you become the more you engage in something. Action brings the insights grounded from experience, never the other way around.