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Conquering ProcrastinationBY TIES BENGUEDDA • AUGUST 20, 2014

We have all had, or maybe currently have, something that

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causes us to procrastinate. It could even be on quite an

ambitious level, such as pressing social, personal,

professional or even health issues, for example. I am very

experienced in this subject, so much so that I noticed I was

procrastinating over writing about this very subject.

Procrastination is a feeling of resistance, which only exists

in our own minds. We have told ourselves that we have to,

should or need to do a certain thing. The resistance is

created within us, and quite often has nothing to do with

the activity itself.

Even if we do want, or like, the action we are

procrastinating on, it is simply an action to get us closer

to where we want to be. The moment we start to pressure

ourselves that something is a must, we take away the

freedom of choice and we naturally start to feel resistance.

The only thing we can do to stop procrastinating is to

break the cycle by taking action. However, knowing this and doing this are

two different things.

Luckily, not all hope is lost when you realize you are procrastinating. It might

help when you realize what a waste of time and energy procrastination is.

Anything you do choose to distract yourself with will not give you the

ultimate satisfaction as the feeling you get when you’ve completed that what

you planned to do in the first place, and the longer we procrastinate the

harder it gets to get back on track.

In order to get ourselves into action it might help to change the words we use

in our mind. The actual words we choose can change the whole meaning and

emotion we feel, which we can then use to our benefit. We have the ability to

trick or reprogram our mind by choosing different words to use, by giving

ourselves a choice instead of an order.

Try to avoid words like must, should, need or have to, which trigger that

negative feeling of resistance. Replace them with want, like to, and enjoy,

words that trigger positive feelings, and see how that changes our emotions,

and therefore our actions. We are far more likely to do something when we

say, “we want to,” than when we say, “we must.”

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