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Flex Your Emotional Muscle to Overcome Procrastination 69
Double troubles bring you into the realm of cyclical thinking.
For example, if you’re stuck with Catch-22 procrastination think-
ing (“I can’t change”), look carefully and you can see the cycle: I
can’t change, and because I can’t change, I’ll be stressed and pro-
crastinate forever. Take out one element in the circle and define it
as an assumption, and you’ve taken a step toward breaking the
circle. Assumptions are not the same as facts!
In this chapter, you saw how to build your emotional muscle
when it comes to procrastination. As long as the procrastination
lure glistens by increasing your ability to withstand various
emotional procrastination traps, you’re likely to resist following
the lure.
End Procrastination Now! Your Plan
Knowledge without know-how is like living in an ivory tower.
Know-how is the collection of skills that you’ve learned that you
apply to produce a productive outcome. Know-how is what brings
home the bacon. Harnessing emotional knowledge is a big part of
this know-how.
What three ideas for dealing effectively with procrastination have
you had? Write them down.
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