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How to Trick Yourself to Stop Procrastinating

Whenever I catch myself procrastinating, this is my go-to trick and it always works, because it's simple.

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Dan Silvestre
Oct 02, 2020
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The first thing we need is a goal and a high leverage activity.

Here’s an example:

  • Goal: publish two articles a week

  • High leverage activity: writing (articles)

Now, writing is too generic, so let’s deconstruct it into mini activities (ones which I follow):

  • Coming up with a topic for the article

  • Research (keywords, facts, quotes, stories)

  • Writing headline

  • Doing …

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