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tions spur repeated procrastination performances, emotional pro-
crastination is a prime area to address.

Sensations and Emotions

You may go to a horror movie to experience fear. You gravitate
toward people you find attractive. Your favorite comedian is in
town, and you go to the show to have a good laugh. You enjoy a
good massage, a swim in a lake, a walk through a garden, and a
sea breeze against your cheeks. You experience pleasure in finish-
ing a race. You enjoy listening to music before a warm fire. You
feel glued to the screen of your TV as the history of planet earth
unfolds. Indeed, there are countless emotional and sensory plea-
sures in life that add to the enjoyment of living.
Emotional states motivate action. If you are curious, you are
likely to approach what piques your interest. Love can trigger ex-
traordinary actions—if you have love and passion for a specific task
Think about Your Emotional Response

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When you catch yourself procrastinating, look at how you’re
feeling and what you’re doing in response to the feeling.
Results are ordinarily more important than feelings, which
tend to be fleeting. Procrastination is a choice for delaying
rather than producing.
By weighing the benefits of acting versus delaying, you’ve
introduced a change into the process and have sharpened your
choices. As a by-product of exercising a productivity choice,
you strengthen your skills that support future productivity
choices. Accept that simple solutions to defeat procrastination
are not necessarily easy, but can be made so through practice.
Dealing with necessary inconveniences, uncertainty, and
discomfort normally gets easier with practice.