Do Your Work. Especially if You Don’t Feel Like Doing It…

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Doing work isn’t always fun. It can be hard. Uncomfortable. And it requires effort.

But you know you need to do it anyway.

Yet the thought of procrastinating entices you to put your work off.

“It’s just another video,” you think. Or, “I’ll do it later.”

One video turns into two videos. Then, two videos turn into an hour. And so on. Eventually, you snap out of your procrastination. You realize that you spent a lot of time that should have been spent doing work. But instead, you wasted it.

Your mind justifies why you shouldn’t do your work, even though you KNOW that you should do it. The brain likes to play tricks on you sometimes.

So, you must know how to fight your mind’s justifications for procrastinating.

The good news is, that there is only one thing that you need to do to fight your mind’s justifications for procrastinating.

You need to do this one thing to accomplish your work, regardless of whether you procrastinate or not.

This one thing you need in order to fight procrastination?

Start your work.

That’s the key. It’s all you need to do. Eventually, you’ll be able to tune out your mind’s…