Lindsay’s talk covered how simple it can be to overcome procrastination and included:

• The most common causes for procrastination and how to figure out if any of these are effecting you
• The two emotions that are typically behind procrastination (you’ll be surprised by one of them!)
• Tapping statements that you can use immediately to get results

This interview is definitely worth listening to. It’s one of those “kick in the butt” things we all need to listen to from time to time.

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Procrastination came be obvious and subtle. There is procrastination where you set aside time to do something and then consciously do something else in that time. This might be acceptable once or twice but more than that and you are procrastinating.

Then there’s the more subtle form of procrastination where you think right, “I’m going to get this task done now” and the very next thought is a distraction such as, “but I’ll just check my email/facebook/twitter before I start”. This momentary distraction leads off on a tangent that you only return from some time later with another thought of right, “now I’ve really got to get this done” followed by another thought of “but first I’ll put that load of washing on and sort something out for dinner” and the pattern repeats.

I don’t necessarily believe that procrastination is about lack of will power or discipline. Yes you can use these brute force approaches to grit your teeth, force yourself to do things, and beat yourself up when you don’t get things done but I prefer a more gentle approach of using EFT to work on the emotions underneath the behaviour and building a habit of getting things done.

So how can EFT help you with procrastination?

First identify an important task or project that you have been procrastinating getting started. The sort of thing that you know needs to be done but you just haven’t got around to doing. Make sure it a specific well defined task of some importance. Write that task down and have it handy to look at while you do the following tapping sequence. You can use this EFT Tapping Points Guide.

Continue on for another round to target some of the thought patterns that accompany procrastination:

Now some tapping to develop the habit of noticing yourself procrastinating and recognising the choice you have in that moment.

Like doing physical exercise, motivation is not needed to start exercising if we realise that motivation comes from that act of starting to exercise. Once we start we remember how much we enjoy it and continue on with the activity.

Our behaviour is shaped by our actions even more so than our thoughts. If you consistently take action you become that person. Use the above tapping consistently to break your habit of procrastinating and enjoy the satisfaction and pride of becoming someone who gets things done.Related Posts:

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