Number One
“Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin.”
– Victor Kiam, entrepreneur and former owner of the New England Patriots (1988-1991)
Number Two
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Number Three
Advice from Tim Brownson
Anchor It
An anchor if you don’t already know, is a conditioned response. Think of Pavlov’s dog salivating at the ringing of the bell even when Pavlov had removed the meat and you get the idea.
There is an expression in neuroscience that says “Neurons that fire together, wire together”
Effectively that means if you do two things together enough times or with enough intensity, just doing one of this things will automatically trigger the other.
You have dozens of anchors that have occurred naturally through your life.
Maybe a specific song evokes certain emotions each time you hear it because of either a really pleasant or really traumatic event that was happening to you at the time you first heard it.
Or maybe you feel ill at the mere smell of a certain type of alcoholic drink because you once got really hammered on it.
My wife is always up on weekdays before me and she immediately puts the coffee.
The smell of the coffee when I first notice it is now and anchor for me to get my arse out of bed and do some work!
Using this information we can create anchors to use at will. I’m not going to explain that today because you can check out this post if you want to know how.
Wouldn’t it be cool to have an anchor for motivation though, so that when you are being tempted by the procrastination demon you can fire your motivation anchor?
Well you can, so go and learn how and use it.
Number Four
How to Kill Procrastination before it Kills You (warning: foul language used)
Q: What happens when you give a procrastinator an idea?
A: Nothing.
Number Five
My new hero.
Go to I)’>sluggard;
consider her ways, and M)’>in summer
and P)’>O sluggard?
When will you arise from your sleep?
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A little sleep, a little slumber,
S)’>folding of the hands to rest,
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and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want like an armed man.
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