phi
September 9, 2019, 6:18pm
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The other day I came across these 5 questions and I think they are rather good. So good I have a hard time coming up with decent answers quite often:
“Why am I avoiding this?” (Is it boring? Am I anxious? Confused on what to do next? Afraid of failure?)
“What’s it gonna take to get me to do it?”
“How good am I gonna feel when it’s finally done?”
“What’s the first step I can take? What small thing(s) can I do right now?”
“How will I know when I’m done?”
I put them here so you don’t have to go on Twitter and get sucked into its distractions and drama.
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narthur
September 10, 2019, 12:50pm
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So good!
Another question might be “When will I do this first step / first 5 minutes / whatever?” to complete the if-this-then-that implementation intention .
Somewhat related, attributes of tasks that invite procrastination :
Boring
Frustrating
Difficult
Lack personal meaning and intrinsic rewards
Ambiguous (you don’t know how to do it)
Unstructured
If you can identify which of these attributes apply to the task at hand, it may be useful to brainstorm ways to alleviate those problems for that specific task.
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