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Overcome negative procrastination

Overcome negative procrastination

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Overcome negative procrastination

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- There are many reasons why people don't follow through, why they procrastinate. Now, I talk about the difference between negative procrastination and positive procrastination. Positive procrastination is when you schedule something in your calendar and give yourself a lot of time to complete it in an appropriate way. That's a good thing. But, negative procrastination is when you have something scheduled, or you know you're supposed to do something, and you keep pushing it off. This is the kind of procrastination I want to confront in this video. First, understand that the reason behind procrastination most often has to do with some kind of emotion that you're feeling. Often it's fear of how hard it's going to be, or discomfort that you don't want to do that kind of activity. Perhaps you'd wish you were doing something else. In this situation we need to utilize a few tricks to get yourself to follow through even if…

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