What about the serious procrastinator, who can’t do the basic tasks that primarily sustain his life, like work projects to get paid or academic assignments, to be in a position to work on the big questions in a given field?

The real procrastinator (20% of the population) can’t get to the level of self actualization because the fulfillment of their more basic social and emotional needs is compromised by their procrastination problem!

This level of procrastination is clinically speaking, a real life-interfering tendency. It costs in dollars, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being, heck; it can cost in lost years of life!

The real way to stop this kind of life-harming procrastination is as simple as it is counterintuitive. It’s about learning how to borrow motivation from the things we love doing and do every day, and plugging it into or transferring it over to the important tasks we don’t like doing and avoid.

Harnessing and transferring motivation is what cures clinical depression better than medication. It’s what cures autism and helps a stroke victim quickly recover.

The part people miss out on, is that the natural process of brain rewiring is driven primarily through external motivators. And so is the process for overcoming serious procrastination.

Thanks for this incredibly thought provoking article!
Gratefully,
Duddy (Professional, Counselor/Behavior-Change Consultant)