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Found 6 comments on Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change:

u/designerspit · 13 pointsr/BettermentBookClub

Thank you!

For anyone reading:

• Better video source that even has the professor/lecturers name in the description: https://youtu.be/mhFQA998WiA

• I've watched this, it's great! Definitely supports the "5 Minute Rule" which means you perform a task for 5 minutes and stop, to remove any anxiety and dread you built up for the task

• PS: They wrote a book related to this lecture, which I own and is a quick/easy read: Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change

u/hiigaran · 8 pointsr/getdisciplined

You are a procrastinator BECAUSE you are a perfectionist. Your perfectionism is misguided, you can use it as a justification to sit on your hands for long periods of time. When I was in college I would not do essays or programming projects because "I'm not sure how to do it right yet. I'll think about it more and figure it out before I start." A week later I had still done absolutely nothing.

Your procrastination is a mood repair strategy you deploy unconsciously and habitually in order to protect yourself from feeling bad about not doing your work.

My advice? Learn a little bit about Growth mindset, shame and self-compassion. You need to find a way to quiet your perfectionism first. By taking care of the perfectionism you give yourself room to practice and failure won't be as scary. At that point I would put money on the bet that your procrastination will virtually vanish.

Good books for reading to deal with that:

u/eperdu · 5 pointsr/getdisciplined

The book, 'Solving the Procrastination Puzzle' by Timothy Pychyl was really helpful for me recently. In a nutshell, he talks about how we put things off now because it feels good to do so, with the mistaken belief that we'll feel like doing it later.

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>"When faced with a task where our natural inclination is to say, “I’ll do this later” or “I’ll feel more like this tomorrow,” we need to stop and recognize that we are saying this in order to avoid the negative emotions we are feeling right now." -- Timothy Pychyl

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This is actually the review I wrote of the book when I originally read it:

A few things that I took away from it was the idea of self-regulation failure. "We fail to regulate our behaviors to achieve our own goals. We make an intention to act, but we do not use the self-control necessary to act when intended. We may voluntarily delay our action because we are unable or unwilling to self-regulate our behavior to act now." The idea is that we are giving in to something in order to feel good, instead of the long-term goals.


The author provides a technique for dealing with this in the form of "if..then" statements which can be crafted and used when we are in a situation. "IF I feel negative emotions when I face the task at hand, THEN I will stay put and not stop, put off a task, or run away." This is too generic for most people and does assume that one can recognize emotions.


A more specific example in the book: "IF I say to myself things like, "I'll feel more like doing this later" or "I don't feel like doing this now." THEN I will just get started on some aspect of the task."
I've used this technique before (prior to reading the book) and it has been enormously successful for me because I'm pushing myself to not do what I really want to do. I may do something like print out papers, organize folders, etc. that are all related to the work I'm dreading but I'm still putting myself in that space instead of somewhere else. It's helpful because once I've gone through these seemingly simple and non-related tasks, my mind is focused and I'm able to start doing the actual work. As an example, when I need to study for a test but don't want to. I will print out study guides, mark off sections I need to spend the most time on, highlight areas I don't know well, get my vocabulary cards organized, etc. I'm then prepared and READY to study and I'm able to put in a solid amount of time.

One other idea that I really liked is that, "procrastination is a problem with not getting on with life itself." The thought that my life isn't going in a direction I want being directly attributable to what I'm doing now was pretty powerful for me. It's not rocket science and I know this intellectually but for some reason it really resonated with me as I read it this time. This is my goals and my life and I'm ignoring it in favor of something else. What value is there in this? It makes you stop and think.

u/Marcooo · 2 pointsr/thenetherlands

Hi! Ik heb enigszins ervaring met een paar van de dingen die je omschrijft.

Zoals je zelf ook al aangeeft, gedragsverandering is moeilijk, en als je er echt mee aan de slag wilt zou ik je zeker aanraden iemand te zoeken om je te helpen.

Het klinkt idioot, maar een psycholoog kan door alleen te luisteren al heel veel betekenen en het kan heel fijn zijn eens alles met iemand op een rijtje te zetten die verder geen enkele voorkennis over je heeft en die er gewoon een tijdlang een uur per week alleen voor jou is ;-)

Ik denk dat dit zeker niet te miniem is om mee naar de huisarts te gaan, moet je eens voorstellen dat de persoon waarnaar je doorverwezen wordt jou goed kan helpen: dan wordt jou leven veel fijner - maar functioneer je ook beter op werk!

However, huisartsen zijn niet altijd heel goed in problemen die niet puur lichamelijk zijn - maar je huisarts heeft misschien wel een netwerk van lokale hulpverleners :) Je hebt trouwens geen verwijzing van een huisarts meer nodig - dus je kan ook met google een psycholoog vinden die je aanspreekt en direct een afspraak maken.

Dan nog een aantal tips:

  • Wees kritisch en zoek net zo lang naar iemand totdat je echt iemand vind waarmee je een klik hebt! Dus als het kennismakingsgesprek niet bevalt, zoek verder! Ik heb zelf meerdere dingen geprobeerd, waarvan ik achteraf gezien betwijfel of het mijn investering waard was. Totdat ik een haptonome heb gevonden die mij simpel en heel direct kon helpen - en waar ik echt heel duidelijk werd geconfronteerd met wat ik moest leren.
  • Mogelijk vergoed je zorgverzekering tot een bepaald bedrag sommige behandelingen - dus check dat zeker even
  • Ik weet niet in hoeverre je op je werk iemand hebt waar je hierover open mee praat - maar ik heb op mijn werk op den duur een deal kunnen maken zodat de sessies deels werden vergoed uit mijn opleidingsbudget

    Tot slot, een paar linkjes naar boeken/artikelen die mij hebben geholpen - maar nothing beats real life practice:

  • iProcrastinate Podcast, boek en lecture
  • Marie Kondo voor wat opruim inspiratie
  • Why Procrastinators Procrastinate - Wait But Why
  • Non Zero Day comment en Non Zero Day subreddit
  • Excersize! Klimmen & boulderen, en dat kan zeker ook in Groningen
  • Superchille opensource Loop habit tracker app - om dingen die je je voorneemt elke dag of een paar keer per week te doen bij te houden.

    TLDR: Denk aan je toekomstige zelf, en zoek iemand om je bij die muren vandaan te krijgen ;-)
u/hjl3 · 0 pointsr/GetMotivated

Picked up a copy of his book over the weekend when this video was shared on another subreddit. It's a short book, can be read in a few hours.... but I've procrastinated from getting started on it.