Forcing A Task Upon Yourself

Forcing A Task Upon Yourself

The old school of thought always taught us that forcing yourself to do a TASK that you're procrastinating on doing ISN'T an enduring solution.  It is even argued that forcing yourself ignores the underlying FEAR of FAILURE, which then needs to be addressed if procrastination is to be endured, if at all.  So, should we still be Forcing A Task Upon Yourself📘📙📗

As studies showed, procrastinators usually will choose one marshmallow now rather than two later.  So, experts claim that key is to build the frustration tolerance of procrastinators.  Just for today, I wasn't in the mood to write our thread for today.  So, I procrastinated for a few hours, ending up doing less and instead, I grabbed on those 'pleasant' tasks.  I was finally able to get myself started by asking myself, WHAT do I need to do to get things done?  And then, I tasked myself to save the word document ASAP.  Then, I tasked myself to identify WHAT's the next sentence. At that point , I was hooked in writing our piece for today💦💦💦

Now, the other point at WHICH people tend to be procrastinating is WHEN reaching the 'HARD PART'.  Sounds familiar?  Oh Oh, I've been there, done that quite a few times in the past.  BUT if you ask me, WHAT happened next?  NADA, NICHTS, NOTHING.  Generally, UNLESS you've made progress in a minute, you're UNLIKELY to.  And you're most likely to NOT only give up on that task BUT you will even end up creating ab unpleasant memory of doing such tasks that it increases the tendency to procrastinate💧💧💧

Swinging back to myself, the HARDEST part when writing is to crystallize your thoughts and translate it into compressed statements WHICH later I'll craft into structured sentences.  YES, I'll admit that I do struggle along the way NOT because of compromised focus, NOT because of less drive BUT simply because I failed to hurdle the 'HARD' part.  Ultimately, I did progress after I kept thinking and trying out wordings.  Ultimately, procrastination is most likely to be cured by a factor that is not so obvious on the surface, and that's a person's unflinching deep sense of responsibility and that consistency to commit oneself to be even uncomfortable for the larger long-term benefit❌❌❌

Our takeaway:  People often think , WHEN they're tired OR DON'T feel performing a task, they believe their choices are either, #1 to force oneself to do the task anyway OR #2 let yourself 'off the hook'.  And WHILE there is nothing wrong with either of these choices, those are NOT the only choices at hand.  So, WHAT else can we do?  You can opt to take care of yourself and then COME BACK to the task WHEN you're ready for it.  OR, find a reason to do the task that inspires you to do it, even if you're tired, for example, if you knew that doing a task would save a million lives, you WON'T say that you're tired, right?  OR opt to find a creative approach that has you bringing play to the task WHILE also respective your fatigue for that ask.  So, dude, it's NOT FORCING A TASK UPON YOURSELF but EMBRACING it instead😊😊😊