Sublime

As we have been moving through the Focus Funnel, each stage has presented us with a critical question to answer. In the Eliminate stage, it was, “Is this task something I can live without?” In the Automate stage, it was, “Can this task be systematized?” In the Delegate stage, it was, “Can this task be performed by someone else?” If the answer to th

But you also know that when you leave important things until the last minute, there’s greater chance that quality will suffer. On an unconscious level, Clance says, procrastination is a way to give yourself an out.

2—Automate the process.

So what does work in the age-old fight against procrastination? That’s where our third approach comes in. I call it the ‘unblock method’.

Strategic Deferral.

The fourth one is that procrastinators tell themselves that succeeding at a task requires that they feel like doing it; and, fifth, is entertaining the false idea that working when not in the mood is somehow suboptimal—that it’s best to wait till the lightning of inspiration strikes before motivating ourselves to stop procrastinating.