Specific Advice To Beat Procrastionation Monkey

[Wouter]

First,,I higly recommend watching this video to many of you

 

In wich Tim Urban models the brain of a procrastinator (he thinks almost everyone is a procratinator) as a rational decision maker is the captain of the ship (at least that is what is what we want). But when things get hard, the "instant gratification monkey" takes over the ship and brings it to "the dark playground" in wich we do the things we don't consider the best in the long term and we also don't really enjoy because we feel guilty. When there are deadlines the "panic monster" shows up and the instant gratification monkey goes away. But (and this is really really important) when there are no deadlines (I think society has no deadline for most of the things you want to accomplisch) the panic monster doesn't show up, so we take no action. And this bites us in the ass (to use Leo's words :-)) later in our lives... I think this is a very accurate description of "procrastion".

 

But how can we weaken the instant gratification monkey? Are there things we can do in order to get rid of the urge for instant grafification? Some of my thoughts about this question:

-maybe we don't want to get rid of this proces totally because if we already lose the battle against the instant gratification monkey, we aren't commited enough, so what the "rational decesion maker" would do would be an even bigger loss of time (since most of the time a big commetment is required to reap a benefit)

-being aware of this proces already weakens the instant gratification monkey

But still I would like to be able to  weaken the urge for instant gratification. Are there techniques out there to achieve this?

 

 

[Consept]

Something I'm battling with at the moment and because I work for myself and I'm not really motivated by money or material stuff, I'm finding it hard to really push myself and get out of these procrastination habits. 

I literally thought to myself a few mins ago I should right down some targets to have something to aim at as that's helped me in the past. Also I used to write what I'd want to get done the night before each day for that day, that also helped. But I'll check out the video and I'm interested if anyone's got any other tips 

[JevinR]

Life Purpose - You're most likely chasing stupid shit, why would you procrastinate when you actually want to work? It's the spiritual flame that stokes the fire. Procrastination isn't the monkey, you're the monkey. It's your brain after all.

 

Edited April 10, 2016 by JevinR

[JevinR]

@Consept Figure out what you want, as in what you legitimately want out of life. You're business is your brand. It's your identity, and it should be fueled by your inner-most values.