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"When you notice yourself procrastinating, you will be able to muster the courage to do what you're trying to avoid."
When I actually realize that I am procrastinating, I often can, by this pure insight, get myself to doing that task. To me, it serves as a mind-hack, similar to "The Game".
How about: When you notice yourself procrastinating about something, figure out the first step, count down from 10, and then do it.
I wasn't aware of that. Neat. And it's a better horoscope than mine.
you are lucky in that regard. I have no similar power.
There may be some critical step I am missing that would make it that easy? I have insufficient wisdom to tell.
I utterly lacked that power. Then someone said to me, "I used to have kleptomania, but then I talked to a therapist, and they told me that I'm only stealing things compulsively in order to prove to myself that there's something wrong with me. After I realized that, I stopped." I thought about that for a while, and decided that maybe the only reason I'm acting akratic is that I want to prove to myself that I do experience akrasia.
And now... well, I don't actually know if that has fixed the problem, or not. I haven't tried to use the method TrE mentions enough times to know how well it works. Send me a message in, oh, a week, and I'll get back to you.
I don't know. Probably, it just works for me. It's a five-second-skill.
I'd say the third step is crucial.