Do you want to learn how to overcome procrastination? Are you putting things off?

I believe that everyone faces the challenges of procrastination in their daily life. No matter who you are, a doctor, an engineering, a super successful businessman, you’ll face with issues with your personal productivity.

And I believe that to deal with procrastination, you will have to find and cure the source.

What I mean is, you need to know what is causing you to procrastinate and how you procrastinate before you can prevent it.

Most personal productivity books will just tell you that to be more productive, you need to create a to-do list, organize your tasks, do the most important task first and so on.

However, this will not help you overcome procrastination. These techniques can help you to be more productive and get more things done, but they never deal with the source of procrastination within you.

The source of procrastination is deep within you, in your mind, and you work it out as a habit.

I found self-talk a powerful strategy to overcome procrastination. Whenever you want to get a task done, you will ask yourself questions before you proceed to do it.

So if you can deal and act before you actually procrastinate, you will be able to put yourself into action and do the task.

Some people will talk to themselves like, “should I really do this?” “God, I hate this part.” “I’m going to spend all my time here, what a boring thing to do.”

What if you talk to yourself positively before doing the task? What if you tell yourself, “How am I going to enjoy with this today?” Or “Where can I start today?”

Do you think this is going to help you overcome procrastination? You bet! The answer is a BIG yes!

So here are the 3 positive self-talk you can use to help you avoid procrastination in your life…

1. Tell yourself you’ll enjoying doing it.

When you have to get your task done, ask yourself, “how am I going to enjoy doing this now?” This is going to interrupt your pattern because this is not the way you use to act.

And if your pattern gets interrupted, you will never focus on how boring or mundane the task is. What you’ll do then is that your brain will start to search for answer of how you can enjoy doing it.

Try it, it really works. Even before I’m typing this post here, I’m thinking about how am I going to enjoy and share this great tip with you.

2. Tell yourself that you can accomplish a small step.

Many people focus on the big task instead of the small task that they should get it done. When you focus on the big task, you’ll feel your mind with fear. You’ll fear of the massive amount of time you’re going to pour in. You’ll fear if you cannot get it done by the deadline. You’ll feel the fear and feel overwhelm.

Confucius has a very interesting quote on this, “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. Yes, no matter how big the project is, you will have to start by taking one small step at a time.

You cannot build a house at once. You cannot write a book in a day. However, you can start by designing the house, pour the concrete, laying the bricks, and so on and so forth. It is the same for everything in life.

You can take just one small step to accomplish a big project right now. Maybe you can draft a plan for your project, maybe it is a phone call, or maybe it is saying “hello” to somebody.

So ask yourself, “what one small step can I take today?” This will help you to avoid putting things off.

3. Tell yourself, “I wish to” instead of saying “I should” or “I have” to.

In the world of psychology, the word “I have to” or “I should” creates the emotion of unwillingness to do it.

When you say that you have to do it, you are telling yourself that you need to get it done, but you feel like don’t want to do it.

So change the word to “wish”. Say to yourself “I wish to study tonight” instead of saying “I have to study tonight”.

You can try this little change right now and feel the change in emotion and feeling in you. Close your eyes and imagine all the task that you need to do in order to achieve your goals.

Think by using the word “have”. For instance, you can think, “I have to do this, I have to do that, I have to…”

Now, change the word to “wish”. What do you feel?

Try to use this word and make it a habit to use it.

And these are the 3 positive self-talk strategies that will help you to overcome procrastination.

Do you want to learn the secret of how you can create results and avoid procrastination?

The secret to achieving this is not something difficult. In fact, most people can do it, but not all of them are willing to do it.

And this is what separates the ordinary people from extraordinary people who create outstanding results they desire in their life.

Today, this post is going to be short. However, it is a powerful post if you apply what you’re going to learn here.

One of the most powerful key in this secret is that without this secret, you will never create ANY results. You will never achieve your goals or make your dreams come true no matter how clever or how much skills you have.

Can you see it now, it is not the skills that you have or the cleverness that you have that will determine how successful you are.

Becoming successful has nothing to do with what you know or does it has anything to do with your knowledge.

This can be proven by the success stories of all the school dropouts who are still able to create amazing results in their life.

Actually, what you know only amounts a little to being successful and achieving your goals.

You can be a health expert, or you can be a doctor, but you can still be fat and unhealthy if you’re not practicing what you know in your life.

You can be a business student who graduated with first-class degree, but if you are not using the knowledge you have gained from your schools, you’ll be the same like every other people.

You can be an expert in investment, but if you’re not going to apply your strategies or your knowledge, you’ll never produce amazing results that an expert deserves.

Obviously, what you know does not count in achieving what you want. Knowing or having specific knowledge about how to get things done is an added advantage, but it will never determine your success.

Therefore, the real secret to create results and avoid procrastination is this… Take immediate action and do it consistently!

If you’re not taking any action, there’s only one result you will get, which is ‘nothing’.

The moment you take action, you’re creating the future that you want and you will be able to avoid the procrastination that you always make.

It is true that success requires planning and thinking, but too much of it will cause you to be paralyzed. This is what most people are suffering in, analysis paralysis.

It simply means that you think too much and plan too much that you don’t put in time into taking action.

You don’t need the perfect plan to get started or to be successful. You don’t have to wait until the best time or when there are 5 rainbows in row in the sky only to take action.

You don’t have to wait for you to have $100,000 in the bank to start your donation, you can start now.

You don’t have to wait for the moment when you are rich only to make those investments or savings, after all, this is the reason you are not rich… yet!

So harness the power of taking action today… right now!