Has it ever occurred to you that people who procrastinate have the same problems as people who are obese? Just like fat people who indiscriminately consume unhealthy foods that make them ultimately unsuitable for life, sufferers, procrastinators cannot refuse to consume a mass of useless information that turns their brain from a unique powerful tool into a graveyard of other people's ideas and feelings. And just like obesity, procrastination can be treated with diet. Informational.
1. Do not consume what does not concern you
An incredible amount of the most diverse information, wrapped in bright attractive shells, surrounds us and beckons us at every corner. Throw in your head everything that they slip into your head!
2. Don't consume anything negative
Human nature is such that we are involuntarily attracted to negativity. Try taking a pencil and, while watching the evening news, calculate the ratio of negative to positive stories in an issue. The ratio is 10: 2. Murders, fires, road accidents, sick children, crimes … Journalists have become lazy and unprofessional and instead of preparing stories they visualize police reports. Negative information does not bring anything of value into our lives. It distorts the perception of the world and our psyche. Block it completely. We always have enough problems of our own, so there really isn't much point in wasting time worrying about the problems of people you don't even know.
3. Consume only minimal information
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Now let's talk about work and how to better handle it. To complete any task, you may need to search and master new knowledge. Finding information in our time is not at all difficult, it is much more difficult to stop in time and start work. After all, the link is strung on the link, the page follows the page, and now we have already moved further from the beginning of the task than we were at the beginning.
Dealing with this is very simple. Before you start gathering information, just write in front of you the circle of questions that you want to understand. Don't click on links that look interesting but don't match your questions. Stop at the moment when all the questions have been clarified for yourself. This simple tip will help you avoid wandering around aimlessly under the guise of work.
4. One day a week for training
Yes, of course, we are not machines and we cannot put our brains in an information vacuum. Sometimes you can pamper yourself. Postpone articles of interest to you using one of the delayed reading services and set aside one day a week to study them. This is quite enough. Believe me, in this case you will be very responsible in the choice of articles and get special pleasure from studying them. The usual chewing gum will turn into an exquisite delicacy.
5. Create a barrier
There was a time when there was so little information that people could "read newspapers between the lines" and did not sleep to listen to "enemy voices" at night. Today everything has changed exactly the opposite. You need to protect yourself from information. There are a huge number of ways and tools for this, we are constantly writing about them. You might want to turn off your TV, block Facebook and other distracting sites, install an ad blocker, clear your bookmarks, or even start a custom browser to work.
In fact, if
You want to become a successful entrepreneur, a good writer, the founder of a popular blog, or find yourself in any other field, then you must build and apply a whole system of defensive measures aimed at reducing the information noise around you. With every minute of your attention spent on a site you don't need, reading a stupid article or watching a cool video, you pay for the work of other people, but you become one step further from your dream.
Vadim Babkin