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Work. Unless you are aware of what you're doing you can't stepped back to clarify what your most. Born tasks are almost you realize you're procrastinating. In the first place, we can't break a task into small step, unless you realize you urge dreading the task you can't click away distractions was you realize you ve been following the urge to go to these attractions. Awareness is everything with procrastination the problem is in finding solutions of procrastination is being aware of. What's going on in the first place once we know it's happening, the fixes are fairly easy, problem isn't just being aware of. What's going on, it's remembering to be aware, this remember, is what mindfulness is about. Too often we forget to be aware, so

Let's talk about the awareness of what's going on when we procrastinate and then how to remember awareness of what's going on so what's going on where we procrastinate try these number one following urges to distraction we get the habitual a to check, email or social media or news or we get the urge to go to thing easier, more comfortable? The urges can be if we are aware there happening number two dreading hard tasks, our minds than a focus on the hard. Parts of tasks that art procrastinating on without thinking too much about them. We label these tests as hard. Gary overwhelming time consuming. If were aware of this, we can solve each of these problems. Pard tasks. Can be broken into easier ones. Number three fear progressed nation is often about fear, fear failure, fear of success, self doubts

but we don't often know that his fear is even there. We just act on the fear. Fears ones were aware of them Can we been by the light of day when we, he fears on the open in a light we can see they ve been overblown in our minds. Case scenario of failure is often not that bad. When we really think about it, number four not being motivated lots of times we forget our motivation for doing a hard task. Why are we putting ourselves too the suffering its? to put it off and do other important things. Instead, but we remind ourselves of our motivation. We can focus so we have to be aware that our motivation is unclear or that we forgot then what that motivation is in the face of discomfort number five not being clear on priorities. What tasks are more important? It's hard to know when you are caught up in the flow of things just doing things left and right quickly, switching between task and so on. Everything seems important though we stepped back and think about

What matters most, what will make the most difference in the world and in our lives we can see what we need to focus on two May time, for we can step back. We are aware that we're getting caught up in lesson born tasks, number six compulsively checking things. Often we compulsive check, email, social media, blogs, news sites, etc. We have those tabs open all the time and go unchecked them every few minutes Why? What need or we fulfilling often is a need to be up to date on everything. I fear that we might miss something, and often is just a temporary plus getting something new and our in boxes of finding something interesting or pleasurable d. Are some of the more common examples of what's going on when we procrastinate, but how do we come aware how we remember to be aware How to remember the promised

bring be aware, is that we get caught up in our moment to moment actions once we open a computer, for example, a series of habitual responses kicks in and were suddenly the deep end. It could be hours before we come up for air realise we ve been procrastinating solely need or a set of tools. For remembering here, though, ones that tend to work for me? Number one recognition of harm. The first thing you need to admit is at the procrastinating, is actually doing dad things to you. If we think it's not a big problem, we won't take any of the other steps you're about to hear. So what harm is a procrastination causing well stopping you from achieving your dreams or big goals from pushing Europe. Andrews men, learning new things in my life causing you anxiety and making your work suffer number to comment, making a commitment to being aware is a great tool for remembering what kind of commitment you right.

He's a paper and look at it every morning or tell someone else about it: post it on your blog or twitter. Have someone check on you, weekly, whatever you do commit as seriously as you can number three setting in ten and do you start activity like opening or email or starting to write something or even opening your computer or starting your day, pause to think about where your intention it is with that activity making it Should you be mindful and notice your procrastination, Intentions doesn't necessarily mean you'll actually achieve what you set out to do, but it helps and it see you to learn to get better at that with practice than before. Reminders every hour or to have a reminder that helps you check in to see reactions match your intention to remember. The aware of been going on with your procrastination number five recognise signals. There are signals,

you're procrastinating anxiety about your tasks, composedly checking things arising, she go, do something other than the present task designs might be fist, gold tennis in your chest, for example, or the may be certain actions checking email, but you can learn to recognise them with time. They are flag waving in telling you that something is going on notice. The flags and check in to see what's going on. These are Things you can master and one day they take practice and they take commitment. But if you can see of the mindfulness problem, procrastination because the much more manageable beast You just was into the both titled. Procrastination is a minefield problem by Liam about of Zen habits, die net. Thank you again to candidate dogs may be known as mass best friend, but who can resist acute puppy, their everyone's best friend, and you know how I keep us

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