I also appreciated her “triple check” or “head, heart, hand” method, adapted from the psychologist Hugo Kehr, for identifying the root causes of procrastination: Ask “Is the task appropriate?” (head); “Is the task exciting?” (heart); “Is the task doable?” (hand). These questions can yield the insight needed to identify when and where to change... See more

“We do have the capacity to step out of past conditioning, but as anyone who has consciously attempted it can attest, it’s a difficult project. One of the reasons for this is that doing something truly new—actually moving off those habitual tracks—feels like some combination of weird, unfamiliar and wrong.

The trick is to learn to stay with the

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