Each with subtle differences they both more or less allude to the same thing, i.e. doing something else instead of what you should be doing. In many ways for me right now writing this post is procrastination as there are a few others things I should really be doing right now.
In listening to her words she hits the nail on the head. I love Ellen she's one of my favourite comedians. Anyway the key words she keeps going back to are "I thought about it..." and "I thought..." and therein lies the problem. Thinking. No matter what it is you are meant to be doing, thinking will distract you. There's a quote from one of my favourite Movies, if you know the movie you'll know the scene: "Do not think, become!". [10th Kingdom]
If you want to beat procrastination and stay focused you need to stop thinking about the things you want to do and just do them. This post is motivated in part by a friend who had some Uni coursework to hand in and left it to the final days to actually work on it - for the record I did that too so I'm quite a hypocrite for standing on my soapbox right now, but what I did and what I should have done are not necessarily the same thing.
How do you beat procrastination? How do you stay focused in your work?
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