To handle procrastination, first make sure you've broken the project into pieces that are manageable. If you don't have bite-sized tasks, you'll probably be confused and perhaps overwhelmed. You can do mind-mapping or some other method to break down the project.
Then, if you want to do something to change the pressure, choose one of these exercises:
- Identify Distracting Emotions helps identify negative feelings making it difficult to finish a task
- Relieve Your Tension is a physical isometric useful to relieve stress and pressure
- Transforming Energy releases energy stuck by holding back from doing something
- Turn Time Around releases holding back by turning our 'normal' temporal perspective around
If you'd like to read something, try "Turning Procrastination Around," which explores the procrastination process in depth and presents an exercise that turns the 'procrastination perspective' around.
Procrastination begins with some kind of negative feeling that distracts us. However, 'negative' is often just a label put on top of neutral energy. If the 'negative' label can be seen through, there's no impetus to avoid things. A physical exercise can provide a mini-lab to experiment with this: Exploring Different Levels of Feeling.
Procrastination is an example of how we create our sense of time flow; for more general information on this creation, see How Our Sense of Time Flow is Created.
Note: If you have questions or comments about these exercises or readings, please send email to or call Steve Randall at 510-303-1035.
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