Chapter 1:
Stop Putting It Off
Synopsis
Once you face a hard undertaking, it may occasionally feel like you’re attempting to move a huge mountain. The longer you gaze up at the huge mountain, the more overpowering your undertaking appears. In that state of affairs, it's really easy to begin putting things off by finding other matters to accomplish.
Get Moving
Putting things off is among the major obstructions that you need to get the better of in order to make your aspirations a reality. The secret to defeating putting things off is to quit looking up at the mountain and begin looking down at your lawn cart. Allow me to me explain…
Once you look at a complex undertaking in its totality, it's really simple to become paralyzed by the out-and-out amount of work that you have to do. Your brain begins telling you that ‘it’s out of the question’ and you spiral downwards into an ocean of negativity. The way to get the better of this paralysis is to alter your focus and quit thinking of the total undertaking you have to complete. Rather, just center on something you know you are able to accomplish. Let’s consider an example to see how this works in real life.
John is confronting the ‘mountain’ of composing a Ph.D. dissertation.