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It is time to just get started. I know that this will make a difference in your life.

change is about doing, not just reading.

On our self-change journey, we have to be prepared to forgive ourselves for our transgressions so that we are willing to try again.

Self-change is a journey I take daily, and I will persevere patiently as I take two steps forward and one step back.

“It will only take a minute” puts me on a slippery slope toward procrastination.

Procrastination draws on our ability to deceive ourselves. We find excuses for just about any unnecessary delay.

My personality might put me at risk, but I can adapt.

Willpower is a limited resource that I need to use strategically.

We can face a variety of problems and needlessly delay action at many stages of goal pursuit. Our feelings may still threaten to derail us. Distractions abound, and it is easy to replace one intention with another, even if just for a minute. And in all of this we can find ways to justify this to ourselves.

I need to be prepared to deal with distractions, obstacles, and setbacks.

Just get started.

Knowledge is power.

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

I need to be aware of my rationalizations.

“My current motivational state does not need to match my intention in order to act.”

we should simply learn to expect to be wrong and go from there.

In making an intention for future action, we focus on our current affective state with the mistaken assumption that our affective state at the point we expect to act on our intention will be the same as it is now.

The tomorrow in which “I‘ll really feel like it” is always a day away. It never becomes today.

I won‘t feel more like doing it tomorrow.

We have become our own worst enemy, and we even know how to lie to ourselves.

We might simply think, “I‘ll feel more like doing this tomorrow.” We probably won‘t. I think we all know this deep down.

we do not have to be our fear.

I won‘t give in to feel good. Feeling good now comes at a cost.

It is one thing to know the cost of not acting; it is quite another to have a strong commitment to the goal itself.

we have to be an active agent in our lives, not a passive participant making excuses for what we are not doing.

It is not necessarily that we are accomplishing anything in particular, but that we are engaged in the pursuit of what we think is meaningful in our lives.

happiness is found in the pursuit of our goals.

People who score high on self-report measures of procrastination also self-report lower achievement overall, more negative feelings, and even significantly more health problems.

The regrets of omission related to our procrastination were most troubling in the grieving process.

Procrastination is failing to get on with life itself.

To understand the procrastination puzzle ... we need to understand this reluctance to act when it is in our best interest to act.

This is the puzzling aspect of procrastination. Why are we reluctant to act? Why is it we become our own worst enemy?

There are many types of delay in our lives. I believe we need to learn to appreciate this.

Procrastination is a needless voluntary delay.

All procrastination is delay, but not all delay is procrastination.

In fact, procrastination is defined by this intention-action gap.

Probably the best of the #procrastination books I'm wasting time on at the mo.

Pychyl is a psychology academic whose research focus is procrastination- he compares it to other 'self-regulation' issues like gambling or overeating. It's no frills, no quick-fixes, but looks seriously at how you can change your thought patterns through 'predecisions'. A v quick read, with lots to think about. I will be going back to work through the exercises.

@Captivatedbybooks Guess who finally stopped procrastinating and wrote you a damn letter back? 😹 This will be included with ~something else~ so be on the lookout in the next week or so. #apluspenpal #litsypenpals

When you mailed your #retellingswap box late (despite alllll the extra time @Mommamanzi gave you) so now you wait till your swap buddy get‘s their‘s to open your‘s this wait is killing me lol