Re procrastination The Facebook account "Entrepreneurship Facts" writes --
https://www.facebook.com/entrepreneurshipfacts/posts/pfbid024uFBZbHTT364g6xXsNtDZS4Piqk8LTSaY15FxWbUyS8d7NS7eiJe2ex52pNDb1yVl :
"The hardest tasks are always the gateway to the biggest breakthroughs.
What you delay out of fear or discomfort usually holds the exact progress you’re desperate for.
Procrastination feels safe, but it only drags out your struggle and keeps you stuck in the same cycle.
Every time you tackle the challenge head-on, you gain momentum, confidence, and results that waiting could never give you.
Avoidance robs you of speed.
Action multiplies it.
Do the work you dread, and you’ll unlock the rewards you’ve been chasing much faster than you think.????????
@ Entrepreneurship Facts"
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and posts a picture with the inscription:
"I read a quote that said
"The faster that you do the
hard things you want to avoid, the faster you will receive the
good things you actually want"
and that has changed my whole perspective."
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My view of the problem of procrastination is very different. From my perspective, the key issue is distinguishing between "hard tasks" (which one should indeed confront as soon as one can) and "unpleasant tasks" (which one should preferably outright refuse to do).
The hard tasks are the ones you really want to do but may be fearful of their difficulty or sheer enormity. The unpleasant tasks are the ones you really do not want to do at all but may be fearful to admit that openly because your position viz-a-viz your social adversaries is too weak. In the latter case, sabotaging the unpleasant tasks while working on the hard ones may be a viable and efficient long-term strategy to get those social adversaries off your back.
Doing the unpleasant things that you do not want to do you but your adversaries are forcing you to do, that would not bring you anywhere. That would only increase the power those adversaries have over you and incentivize them to mistreat you even more. Tell them to fuck off, explicitly or implicitly. This advice presumes, of course, that you are right and they are wrong on the main issues your conflict is about.
And then come inner conflicts, of course. The conflicts one has with oneself. In order the solve the procrastination problem, one needs to resolve one's inner contradictions. Decide for yourself what you want to achieve and what you are ready to sacrifice for that aim. Once you have made these decisions and have found inner peace with the decisions you've made, you will be ready to work hard on your hard tasks and make progress fast.