Get in Gear by Starting Your Project Now

Here's another way to tackle overcoming procrastination. I learned this one from a brilliant man named Wally Minto, back in 1980 or so. He taught Alpha Awareness Training, to help people gain attunement with their natural intuition.

If you are a person who has lots of projects underway, and jumps from one to the other without finishing them, it can look like procrastination. A key that Wally shared is this: You are good at starting things. Starting things makes you happy. So when you have a project underway, talk to yourself about starting to work on it now. Vividly imagine starting your project right now. Get excited about starting on it!

Example: You made a brave start on research for your term paper soon after it was assigned. But your notes are just sitting there and you have no energy for finishing the task even though the deadline is next week.

Don't focus on finishing. Focus on your project like this:

I get to start working on my research paper now! I'll start the next piece of it, now! Do as much as you feel like doing, as long as that energy lasts.

Later, come back to it and start again. Do another chunk with renewed energy. Come back as many times as needed and START working on your paper. Pretty soon you'll be starting the ending and it will be complete.

Hope this is helpful to a few of you.
Many blessings, Dr. Marrin