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Quick Ways to Stop Being a Procrastinator

Andrew Wilkie — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:41:41 +0000

For some of us procrastination only comes once in a while on those larger or more difficult tasks but there are people who face the obstacles of procrastination every time they have a project or task to do. Some of these ways to stop procrastination have been very effective for others so you might want to try them out the next time you find yourself putting off even the smallest of tasks.

Working in a positive or clear headed environment will allow you to be more focused on your task at hand. If you’re in an office, get out, take a lunch break, even opening the window and letting in air can help stimulate yourself into doing something towards what needs to be done.

If the project is complex then you may want to find someone else who has done a similar project for guidance or even ideas. Use them as a sounding board.

Turn off all of the distractions like the TV, social networking sites, cell phones and anything else that causes you to lose focus.

Make a guideline or schedule of your tasks if you are faced with a multi step project or even multiple projects to finish before the end of day.

Work backwards when it comes to the complexity of your task. Instead of putting the harder task last, get it done first so that the biggest battle has been won. Doing this also acts as a great motivator.

Like the Nike slogan said, just do it. Sometimes the best ways to beat procrastination simply involve you actually starting what needs to be done and usually finishing it comes much easier than you thought.

Do not make this more complicated then they need to be. By adding more stress onto yourself you are putting yourself at greater risk for not completing the project at all. Take your time and really understand what your overall goal is with this project. If it is a long term goal or project then you need to continuously realign your goals so that you keep on track.

Thousands of us have to work at putting procrastination behind us and while some are better than others, we are all capable of doing it.

The real treatment for procrastination is within yourself and your ability to really want to get things done. Instead of letting TV, Facebook or even yourself distract the task at hand just put your head down and work. Before you know the project will be completed and you have the rest of your day or night to do whatever you want to do instead.

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Have a Procrastination Free Life You Can Be Proud Of

Andrew Wilkie — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:04:19 +0000

There are countless reasons for procrastination that can really be your own worst enemy for completing projects. If the task at hand is pretty large or complex it may cause you to procrastinate just because you are overwhelmed. The less daunting you make the task appear the easier it will be to complete it in a timely and quick manner.

Alongside of that, projects that are boring, not fun or even blatantly uninteresting, or given to you by your boss or teacher also seem to be one of the most common reasons that cause procrastination. For these projects a great way to get over that feeling of ‘I can’t be bothered’, is to give yourself a prize or reward once the project is completed.

Whether it be a round of drinks, a nice bubble bath or even a week-long vacation! Whatever it is you find as your goal, just make sure the project gets done before you cash that in. If not, you’ll only beat yourself up some more.

One of the best stop procrastinating tips you can put into effect is prioritizing your tasks and what needs to be done and when. If you think you work best by going from different task to different task but still come up short, then maybe it doesn’t work as well as you think. Is your quality of work good enough?

Staying on the specific task at hand may seem like it takes longer to complete everything but realistically it is the best way to stay on task and track. When you take your focus off of one project and move it to another you often lose sight of the overall idea of a specific project. The simple point: stay on task.

Remember that the best therapy for procrastination comes from within because you are the only one standing in your way.

It may seem hard to just sit down and get it done but once you make the first step, even a baby step, the rest starts to fall into right place.

Really indecisive people seem to have the worst problem with procrastination but you cannot let that stand in your way. If it helps, try creating a schedule or plan for your project before hand so it will be easier to stay on track.

Try all of the tips and techniques you can naturally from home, to help you stop procrastinating before you try and going down the medical route. You never know how simple it could be to stop procrastinating now, today and finally get everything you have ever wanted done for good.

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3 Reasons Why Procrastination Is Keeping You From Success

Andrew Wilkie — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:17:00 +0000

Did you know that your procrastination is costing you at least $400 a year?

There are some things that you can’t put a price on, good health, successful relationship, time spent with your family, starting your own business, achieving your dreams. If you had to, how much do you think your procrastination is costing you?

All the reasons why procrastination might be keeping you from success might seem blindingly obvious, but why are you stuck then?

The first reason why procrastination is keeping your from your success and stuck is very, simple. Yet, it stops more people from success than anything else. You don’t start. I know, how obvious is that, but if you don’t start your project, essay, business plan or what every your goal is. How can success happen for you?

The second reason why you don’t succeed is that you start a project or idea and something gets in the way. You make whatever is stopping you the be all and end all. Whether it really is big or not, you make it big. People spend lots and lots of time stuck or in limbo and never finish anything. They then beat themselves up about it not for hours or weeks but often a lifetime. Are you one of them?

The final reason why your procrastination is holding your back is you’re afraid to finish and put your name to something. Letting the world know – I did this! You might call it fear of success, fear of failure. For many people it’s worrying about what others will think of them. Am I good enough, is it good enough?

Have you noticed none of these barriers to your success are really ‘real’. Even if you’re stuck in the middle of a project. Your blockage, can easily be overcome if you want it too. Yet it plays over and over in your mind and body. For all you reasons it is your future perceived pain that you’re trying to avoid.

Whatever your own personal reasons for not starting, continuing or finishing your journey towards your own goals. You can logically justify your reasons why or why not. Yet, they are holding your back. The question is:

Do you want to be stuck like that forever? What would you rather focus on your perceived future pain or actual future success?

Do you want to let go of your own barriers to success and start living it instead? There is a technique which can really, really help you get rid of your own procrastination blockages and it’s called EFT. Check out here for more details – http://www.howtostopprocrastinationwitheft.com/

Can You Use EFT For More Than One Issue, In The Same Day?

Andrew Wilkie — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:17:43 +0000

Absolutely, you can never over tap.

With EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques or Tapping. You and your body don’t have a certain amount of issues that you can work on in any given time or space.

In fact, in the beginning of your EFT journey it is a good thing to tap as often as you can. The more you do it, the more comfortable you will become with the process. The more you’ll know which words and emotions are you’re “big ones” and need further tapping. You’ll begin to discover which of the EFT points seem to be “your” spots and where for you, the magic happens and you consistently get big emotional releases.

You’ll begin to start changing the setup phrases to really suit what you are feeling. Too often new tappers come to EFT and are afraid to change even the tense or grammar of the sentences to fit their problem, challenge or emotion.

EFT is such a forgiving technique. Your set-up phrase and reminder phrases should be as easy as possible for you to say and remember. If they are not , you’ll worry about them and stop doing the tapping.

Why am I not getting a shift in my issue?

You are trying to tap on too many issues at once.
You are not being specific enough in describing your problem. You’re wanting to hide something or not admit something to yourself. Go for it!
You don’t really want to tap on what it is that you are feeling. – Then you really need to tap on this one.
You’re tapping has worked and without noticing you have started using different language or feeling a different emotion.

I feel tired when I tap.

When you tap lots in one session, you’ll find many things can and do happen.

You might yawn a lot.
You have a need to drink lots of water.
You sleep like you haven’t slept in ages.
You’ll have little releases of emotion and big emotional releases.

You’ll be tapping on issue D and find that issue A, that you tapped on earlier no longer bothers you.
When doing lots of tapping, you results and changes will start to show up gradually too, even if you think nothing has happened whilst you have been tapping. Your body and behaviours are catching up with the new you.

These are all great signs that you are changing at a much deeper level.

Best of all, you might even discover…

You say something at the right moment, with the right words and feeling and you’ll have an emotional release there and there. These are the real crowning glories of EFT Champagne moments.

Happy Travels

p.s. If you want to find places and times to tap, check this post out too - How To Do EFT Every Day.

How many times a day should I tap on a particular issue and how will I know if the issue is resolved?

Fear of Needles? – Banish It with 1 Simple Step! – EFT

Andrew Wilkie — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:37:14 +0000

21% of Americans have a fear of needles, are you one of them?

Trypanophobia is the extreme and irrational fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles.

I know how you feel.I love to travel, but getting those shots I hate with a passion. No matter good the travelling is, I still hate getting the injections.

But there is something that you can start using today…

It is thought that a fear of needles has evolved from the fear of being stabbed.

What is this technique?

It’s EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique).

How Can EFT help you overcome your fear?

What is that you fear will hurt or go wrong? As you think about needles, any negative emotion i.e. anxiousness or fright can easily and quickly be resolved and dissolved with EFT.

A fear of needles isn’t so much the fear of the needle but what might happen or more importantly…what might hurt.

Fear The Sight

Even though I’m afraid of needles…
Even though the sight of needles scares the hell out of me..

Thought or Feeling of Needles

Even though I don’t like the thought of being hurt…
Even thought this is really going to hurt me…
Even though you’re not meant to put something in me…

Childhood Experiences

I grew up having to have injections for travel as a child. At one point I hid under the desk in the doctor’s surgery. My grandmother was not impressed. Yet, there was no way my doctor was going to stick that needle into me. My last lot of travelling I had to have six injections. All were pain and more importantly anxiety free.

With EFT if you can remember any past experience or even with needles. You can tap on that to dissolve the emotional charge that the event has on you.

Even though I remember being in the doctor’s surgery and hiding under the desk…
Even though I’ve bad experiences in the past, I’m choosing to release this anxiety now…

The more specific you can be with any event, i.e. date, time, how, who was there, what was said, the quicker and easier you’ll get over your fear of needles.

Yet, you’ll still have great success with:

Even though I have this fear of needles…

It might just take slightly longer as you mind goes looking for your past needle events.

Most people don’t fear needles, isn’t it about time you became one of them?

How To Improve Your Confidence with EFT- 3 Top Tips

Andrew Wilkie — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:43:39 +0000

Is something holding you back from achieving all your goals? Do want to do something but you can’t?

I’ve been there. I’ve recently been planning a trip abroad. All is booked up ready to go. Yet, I thought what if they don’t let me in the country? I’m going for longer than I normally do.

Panic, fear, self doubt all set in. I came up with a million and one reasons why they might not let me in. Even though I’ve been in this country 6 or 7 times already without any problem.

Then I thought come on, I’m not even there yet, and I’m already worrying about my trip.

There is a simple technique that you can use to overcome any lack of self confidence in any area.

What is the technique?

It’s EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques).

How can EFT help you?

Lacking in confidence is not a character flaw. It is not you. It means you just have some doubts over whether something at the moment is possible or not. You probably don’t lack confidence, it is actually another emotion that you are feeling

1.Confidence in Your Unconfidence.

Have you ever notice how confident you are in being unconfident. Wow…that is amazing. You already know how to do and be confident. What if you just kept on being confident in your unconfidence?

You could tap on the following:

Even though I’m confident in my unconfidence…
Even though I’m not sure or unconfidence, what if it was all just a big lie?

2.Not Prepared Enough

This is a big one. Most times you have doubts, it is because you are not prepared enough, you haven’t done the revision or the required work or you know that you could have done more and to a higher standard. EFT will not do the work for you. It will help you feel confident and calm even if you haven’t done everything that you could have.

3.Afraid to Fail or Succeed.

Thanks to the school system, we are taught to fear getting things wrong. Yet this doesn’t help you in the real world. With EFT you can overcome your fear of failure and if you do ‘fail’ or get it wrong, let go of the emotions that you feel – anger, sadness, guilt etc. EFT does what getting it wrong is suppose to teach you – learn from it. The insights and learnings you can get from a ‘failing’ situation can be incredible.

What if you achieve your goals and succeed? That might scare you too. You’ll be break free of your comfort zone. You might have to explain yourself to other people. Will they be jealous? All these emotions can be resolved and dissolved with EFT.

Bonus – Tip!

The real key is being specific about where you think you lack confidence. I’m pretty certain you don’t lack confidence going to buy your groceries or tying up your shoes laces.

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EFT – The Single Most Effective Way to Get Pain Relief Drug Free

Andrew Wilkie — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:03:38 +0000

Are you the one in five older Americans who regularly uses pain killers?

I’ve had days when I’ve been in pain all over my body, but I had no idea what was causing it.

It does not matter whether you have chronic pain, dental pain or surgery pain. Or you feel pain and you don’t know what it is or how it was caused.

When properly applied, an estimated 80% achieve noticeable to complete pain relief within minutes when using EFT.

Pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined.

EFT works where other techniques have failed because EFT works with the two vital causes of pain.

Cause #1 – Disrupted Subtle Energies: You are made up of energy. It flows throughout your whole body.When your energy is out of balance, you feel pain.

EFT tapping dissolves the disrupted energy system of your body. When your energy is allowed to flow freely. You feel better.

Cause #2 – Negative Emotions Anger, Fear, Sadness, Guilt etc. Carrying these negative emotions around with you causes you to feel sick and ill.

When you do EFT on any of your negative emotions, The emotion literally disappears. You too will have your own Champagne moments.

EFT can and does work on both your physical and mental pain. EFT affects are life transforming.

The less pain you have, the healthier you are and become. Why do you have so much pain in your life? It’s literally heavy and it does you no favours. Get rid of it with EFT today.

Do you not want to be pain free? Are you afraid you’ll not get the help and support from others that you want? You think you’ll just fade into the background? Wrong! Using EFT will get you more of what you want and you’ll be pain free!

Why are you still carrying your pain around with you? Don’t use it instead of going to your doctor. Use in addition to regular medical checks.

With EFT you can tap for general pain and be very specific. i.e. It’s location, size, look, feel, colour.

Even though I have this pain and I don’t know why. I deeply and completely love,forgive and accept myself.

Even though I don’t know why I have this pain. I accept all of me anyway.

I’ve found tapping on the second one,your mind shouts back a or many reasons. You make a choice whether or not to tap any further.

How have you used EFT to get rid of pain in your life?

Happy Travels

How Often Should I Practice Tapping?

Andrew Wilkie — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:46:06 +0000

The short answer is as much as you need to.

The beauty of EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques or Tapping is:

It always works.
You can never over tap.
Once you have cleared all your negative stuff you can tap on positive feelings and for what you are thankful for. You don’t have to wait for this, but most of us do.
You should use it continually since as you change, so does your environment, your results and therefore your emotional responses to events.

When doing tapping and EFT, you initially take your emotional intensity score on a 1-10 basis.

10 – you are carrying around with you. It is like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders.
1 – It, whatever your negative emotion is, doesn’t affect you at all.

With Emotional Freedom Techniques, you are always wanting to get your emotional intensity level down to the 2 and 1s. Ideally you want to hit the zeros.

This question often comes up because, you’ll be tapping and nothing seems to be shifting and you’re getting no closer to the 2s and 1s.

Yes, you can keep tapping on the same emotion and eventually it will go down to the 2s and 1s. Why? You be tapping with different triggers in your environment. At the exact point when you are tapping, you are really tuned into what you are feel and just like magic it clears up as you want it to.

If things are not clearing up look closer at how and what you are tapping on.

Are you doing full and complete rounds of tapping?
Are you starting off with the set-up phrase and tapping on the karate chop point?
Are you tuned into your problem and emotion?
If you are tapping on subsequent rounds are you changing your setup-up phrase to

Even though I have this remaining…

Even though I still have this…

Are you really describing what you are feeling? How many more ways could you describe it? Look what you are feeling up in a dictionary or thesaurus.

Change your environment when you tap for this particular issue, there maybe something in your environment which is stopping your from clearing that final piece.

If in doubt, take a break. Do something else. Something that you really enjoy doing. Something that will really take your mind off things. Before you know it you’ll have inspiration to tap on another word, phrase or take some other action all together.

How Often do you tap?

Happy Travels

Get Over a Relationship Break Up with EFT

Andrew Wilkie — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:13:18 +0000

Have you every been hurt in a relationship?

I know how you feel.. Boy does it hurt or at least it did for me!

Yet, thankfully I got over my pain of being hurt in a relationship with a little know technique. I did not know I was still hurting from my previous relationship until 12 years later and I used this secret technique on the other person involved

What is the secret?

The Secret is EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)

EFT was “built for” over coming your present, past and future relationship pain and hurt. You know the pain I’m talking about : the constant thinking about the other person, hoping they are happy and at the same time dead. You can’t sleep, you can’t eat. Your stomach wants to crawl in on itself. You want the other person back so much, that even though they may have hurt you. You’d still take them back.

I was in a bar when I had my first experience of using EFT and relationship pain. Boy, was I amazed because I thought I had dealt with it all. Evidently not. The relationship was some 12 years ago.

So how can EFT help you?

Pick An Emotion

When your relationship ends. You will feel hurt, anger, sadness and guilt. With EFT you can dissolve and resolve all these emotions whether they are connected with you, the other person or events even before you were in the relationship.

Pick An Event

As you replay what went right, what went wrong. You can use Emotional Freedom Techniques to lessen the emotional charge that all these events have on you.

If you are still emotional attached to anything, a person, an event or thing. Until you let go of all your negative emotion that you have about your past relationship. Your negative emotions will significantly affect any current and future relationship that you form with other people. Even you non personal relationships will be affected.

Your Past History

Often during a relationship you’ll fight over something small. Yet you’ll feel horrific. What your feeling is partly the here and now, but also the compounding of other events just like this. Thus, the emotional level and intensity has had time to intensify. That is why it is often something very small that breaks the camels back and ends your relationship. EFT can help you overcome your past trauma.

New Relationship and Partner

Once you have let go of your old relationships. You can use EFT to attract your ideal relationship and partner, faster, quicker and with greater ease than you ever thought possible.

Do you want to be in a relationship or not?

How To Let Go Of Your Past Negative Emotions with EFT – in 2 minutes or less.

Andrew Wilkie — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:34:56 +0000

Do you sill moan about your past?

I’ve been there. I’ve talked about how bad things were for me. I’ve moaned about people and places to myself, even when nobody was about to listen. For some reason something was triggered inside of me and bam..I start moaning and feeling terrible.

My big secret over the last two years without question has been EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). I’ve applied and do apply to everything. You don’t have to accept your past any more? You still keep the memory. You just don’t need to hold onto the emotional baggage. Yes, you might have to trawl through some mud, yet speaking from experience the other side is pretty amazing.

With EFT you can pick any area of your life, large or small and by using EFT any memories that used to make you angry, depressed, annoyed or sad, can now be gone and replaced by better feelings.

When tapping on a negative emotion, event or person. Your inner mind will find the old emotions, and beginning dissolving the negative emotions associated with it. As you release the negative emotions you will find the positive lesson in that memory and create a connection with that memory that holds the new emotions.

This is a very enlightening experience, and a very simple way to let your mind be free of the pain and judgement of the past. The change can happen very fast or it can happen very subtly.

Action

1.Take out several sheets of paper

2.At the top of each paper, list on one sheet, one of these emotions. Anger, Fear, Sadness and Guilt.

3.Next think about your major life areas: Career/Business, Relationships, Money, Spirituality, Personal Growth, Things You Want to Have and Do. Also any others that are important to you.

Now on each sheet of paper begin thinking about each emotion and each life area. Think

What makes me angry or What am I angry in my career?
What makes me sad or what am I sad about in my relationships?

You get the idea…

Now everything that comes up is something to tap on with EFT. You can tap on as many or as few things as you want to. Obviously the more you use EFT, the more effective it all be for you and the results that you will see.

Who’s up for changing their life today? Who was to have an amazing, life changing EFT weekend?