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1. Introduction: You logically understand
that you should be getting through
the task today. Yet emotionally, you're
fighting off the task. The task which you are
supposed to do today. You're pushing back
till tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and so on and so on. Congratulations, you've
officially procrastinated. Random is our modules. The founder of Romani talks, a media company which
helps engineers and entrepreneurs improve their
communication skills. What are my first
ever published books was called level up mentality. Within this book, I break down
productivity to a science. In order to understand
productivity. We can't over-complicate it. We need to cut through
to the fundamentals. The more that we understand
the fundamentals, the more likely that we're
going to be productive. In this class, you're
going to understand what exactly is procrastination
and why we do it. You're going to
understand how to add clarity by seeing
the bigger picture. You go to understand
how to effectively use the stopwatch and the timer, how to give yourself rewards. And we're going to end with a final project which will help you overcome an activity that you have been
procrastinating on. If you're ready and excited, I look forward to
seeing you inside.
2. What Causes Procrastination?: Procrastination is the
act of pushing back and activity that you should've
been doing today. The reason that we procrastinate can be for a variety of reasons, but it usually comes
down to blurriness. If I tell you to go inside that forest and just
walk around aimlessly, the first couple of days, you may be able to do it. But after the third
to fourth day, unless you're some
sort of dummy, you're gonna start
feeling annoyed. You're gonna be wondering, why is this guy keeps
telling me to walk around in the forest without
explaining why. As soon as subconsciously you start thinking a
thought like that, you're going to tend to
procrastinate walking into this forest because you
don't understand why. You want to know something.
In formal education. Tons of times we were
learning through this method. A lot of teachers were telling
their students to go into the forest without explaining the context of how the
forest will help them. The forest is simply
an analogy for learning math, social studies, history, which are
all important topics, topics which adults
often revisit. But the younger self
didn't understand why, which is why they
were procrastinating. Anytime we don't have clarity
of the bigger picture, we will tend to procrastinate. See how that applies to you. Do you currently have an understanding of
the bigger picture? Or are you simply mindlessly
walking into a forest?
3. Creating a Chain Mind: To understand the
bigger picture, we need two things. Number one, we need to
create a chain mind. And number two, we
need to get our y. The first one, the train mind. All too often when
we procrastinate, what happens is we think we're procrastinating
just today. We simply see today's activity. But we don't
necessarily understand the ripple effects that this
procrastination is causing. Because guess what? It is causing ripple effects. Allow me to give you
an example. Last year. Those are client that I ended up getting for one of my services. And I asked the guy, man, how did you
end up finding me? That's when he said
that he found me from a blog that I did in 2019. I saw that I was
immediately able to connect 2019, width 2021. Nowadays, anytime
that I'm about to procrastinate on
an activity today, let's say a blog, mine shorts to activate the
chain, the source of thing. Okay. Go ahead, Miss today's blog. But who's to say
you're not missing a client two years from now. Go ahead, Mrs. Blog. But who is to say that
you are not missing plenty of book sales
four years from now. If you can start
thinking and chains, then what happens is that you start to see
the bigger picture. As soon as you start to
see the bigger picture, you start to unlock
this polarity. You feel good when
you execute the task. And you feel guilty when
you don't execute the task. Good and guilty allows you to maximize productivity today. Now as you're unleashing
the chain mind, another thing that
you want to do is track down the root y. Let's go back to
the client example. I see that I ended
up getting a client. Why did I get the client? I ended up getting the client
because I wrote the blog. Why did I write the blog? It is to add ideas to my
brand and grow my presence. Boom. This is a
strong why that has an emotional appeal to it and it allows me to
spot the context. So the first thing
that you want to do is you want to start to prime your mind to see the links and things
you want to see. Okay, if I miss
today's activity, what else am I missing
in the near future? This activates good
emotions and guilt, which leads to
productivity today. Then you want to keep
tracing back the y.
4. Productivity Zone: Once you have your y,
our next goal is to create a productivity zone. This is a special spot where
you go simply to work. Not only does this have to
be a physical location, it could also be a wardrobe. Did you know if you're
working from home is much more effective
if you dress up. Yes, we're the correct
shoes as well. Spray the nice
cologne or perfume. The reason why is
because you are activating a zone in your mind. If you're just wearing pajamas and you plan to work from home. Do you think you'll be
productive? Probably not. If you're just always over
here working anywhere. But you don't have
that certain spot. Or you can go and you
can expect your mind, body, and intellect
to be productive. Do think you're
gonna be productive? Probably, but it's going
to require more willpower. What I urge you to do is create the zone where you go
strictly for work. Anytime you exit this zone
is easier to activate. Relaxation mode. That's the physical side of it, that's the location
aspect of it. But other than that, cultivate the right spirit. Dress up the nice
cologne or deny shoes and look like a person who's about to conquer
procrastination.
5. Bare Minimum: We're in the zone.
Where do we want to do is we want to leverage
our emotions. In a logical world. We're immediately going
to jump in and say, conquer all these tasks. But in an emotional world where we understand that humans
are flawed creatures, we're going to say, what is the bare minimum that I need to do in order to make
this a success. For me personally, I need
to make sure that I at least have the content
written out for my blogs. That doesn't mean
that I have to do all these hyperlinks adding
the pictures, publishing yet. But what I need to do is to
make sure the content is out by simply creating
a Berman mom task. What we do is we
tell her mind and body that we have gained a wind. Once you have gained a win, is much easier to
get another one. I could break down
this minimum task of getting the content
out even further. Rather than saying get
the entire content out. I can just say
write a paragraph. Because when I write
one paragraph, I'm going to be tempted to write another paragraph and another
one, and another one. And congratulations, I've
just activated momentum. Whatever the task is that
you're procrastinating on, you want to break it
down in a way where it looks less intimidating. And you're able
to have that bare minimum that you need to do in order to get through
the task and turn the snowballs
into an avalanche.
6. Timer & Stopwatch: If you made it this
far, you're lucky because tons of people are
trying to be productive, but they don't even know about the stopwatch and the timer. These two are so crucial. First, the stopwatch. Initially, once we
keep doing our tasks, Let's say we have to
write a blog a week. In the initial stages, we don't necessarily
know how long it takes us to
write the content. This is when we activate the
stopwatch in order to get a rough estimate of how long it takes to
create the content. We're not necessarily
focusing on the grammar, punctuation and all of that yet. We're just focusing on how
long it takes us to create, let's say, a minimum
of 1000 words. Let's say for three
to four of our blogs, we see that the estimation is roughly around 15
minutes to 18 minutes. Once we have an
understanding of how long this activity takes us, this is when we
activate the timer. We want to factor
in being human. So rather than saying
exactly 15 minutes, we could say 18
minutes to 20 minutes. But if you want to
challenge yourself, go on and give
yourself 15 minutes or a tablet less in order to
raise the stakes even more. How much you're procrastinating
is how much you want to shave away on the timer
to raise the stakes. But by creatively using the
stopwatch and the timer, you will be able to systematize this act that you need to do.
7. Rest and Rewards: You have officially
conquered the task that you've been
procrastinating on, where a lot of people are
taken a nap right now. You have been working, but you don't want to
work too much now, once you're complete
with a task, you want to close the loop
with rest slash reward. The reason that we
want to end with rest slash reward is
because we want to create an empowering emotion
with work and productivity. Tons of people, when they work, they work some more and
they work some more, which creates a draining
emotion towards the body. We want to immediately connect, rest and reward with
overcoming procrastination. Go back to the blog example. Once I've created the blog, created the pictures,
the links, published it. Let's say it takes me
an hour and a half. I always end with a meal. So as I'm creating, I understand that once I'm done, I'm not going to be
working some more. Because if that's a spirit
that I'm working with, I'm like, I'm working too much. But if I say, you'll work hard because you have a
meal waiting at the end, and this is a good meal. Now I feel better and more
inclined to do this act. Whenever you're wrapping up your procrastination sessions, you always want to give
yourself a rest and reward. This influences positive
perception towards productivity. And no longer is it a chore.
8. Bonus Tip: 5 Minute Rule: Here's one bonus
tip That's going to change your life forever. If it's five minutes or less, do it right now. Has there ever been that moment when you needed to
take out the trash? But soon as you saw the trash, you're like, Yeah,
I'll do it tomorrow. You simply becoming aware that this activity takes
two to three minutes. Guess what? You could bust out the
stopwatch and a timer here. Soon as you acknowledge it. If you just do the
activity right now, you start to condition your
body to view any activity that takes five minutes or
less to do it right now. Now you may be thinking, well, there's a lot of
activities that take me longer than that. Who cares? Because here's the thing. When you go to the gym and let's say you're a skinny person. You're not immediately
trying to rep 250 pounds. You're starting
off with the bar. Then eventually you
try to rub the bar. Eventually you add ten
sides to each side, 25 sides to each side, 45 sides to each side. And you keep working
your way up. It all started with that bar. Likewise, if you could
keep priming yourself to do tasks that require five
minutes or less right now. Eventually, you're building your productivity
muscle even more, which allows you to take
care of the big tasks, level up your
productivity skills.
9. Final Project: Now is the time for
the final project. What I want you to do
is find an activity that you have been
procrastinating on. Once you've spotted
that activity, I want you to activate
the chain mind. What are some of the consequences
that you will face if you do not do this
activity today. Also, what are some of the opportunities
that you will face if you do this activity today
by activating the chain, what you do is you activate the good emotions of
doing the test today. You also activate the guilt
of not doing this task today. Once you've activated the chain, I want you to trace
the chain all the way back to the root cause why? Why are you doing this activity? This will allow you to develop sight of
the bigger picture. Once you've understanding
of the bigger picture, I want you to create
a productivity so on. This can be a
certain location in your living facility,
your office space. This could be certain
clothes that you were in order to feel good, a productive for the
activity at hand. Once you enter the
productivity zone, I want you to find the bare minimum
tasks you need to do in order to overcome
procrastination. Once you have identified
the bare minimum tasks, use the stopwatch
and the timer to make sure that you
go through this act. Once you are done,
I want you to give yourself a rest
period and reward, indicating that you
have officially overcome procrastination
with this task. Once you're done with this, I want you to create a report and posted on Word
document talking about your experience with
overcoming procrastination. There, certain resistance
that you faced. What came easy to you? How did it feel to
activate the chain mind? Be as detailed as you
would like to be detailed. And once you are complete, posted in the final project
section, right arm below. I appreciate you for joining this class and I hope to see you overcome procrastination and
level up your productivity. If you want more content from
the harmonic talks brand, be sure to check out
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forward to hearing from you.
Arman Chowdhury, Confidence thru Communication
