Baidu Encyclopedia says: Procrastination refers to the failure of self-regulation, and it is still the act of delaying what you plan to do under the circumstance of foreseeable harmful consequences.

But I think many people procrastinate because you really don't want to do it, so you don't take action. So some things have not been done, and some things have to be done, so they are put off until the last moment.

Why is this happening?

Procrastination is very common.

First of all, the internal drive is insufficient, so I don't want to do it.

If you really want to do something, you will try your best to do it even if there are many obstacles. Yi Shu

For example, you want to change yourself, starting with fitness, but you haven't put it into action. This is because you didn't really want to change, so you didn't take action.

It's not procrastination, it's just that your belief in changing is not so strong. If you really want to do something, then you will do it. Anything you don't do, but make excuses for yourself, is because you don't want to do it so much.

I thought about it. In my sports group, I have always been the head of Buddhism. After I finish the plan, I will send it to the group, occasionally encourage it, and often send some encouraging sentences and some pictures I have made to everyone, hoping to inspire everyone to keep exercising.

But after a long time, there are only a few people who often punch in. A little friend gave me a suggestion, let me open a small program to urge everyone to punch in, restrain everyone with group rules, and clear the group without punching in.

I studied the APP myself, but it didn't come true in the end.

Keep exercising.

The action has always been good. Why didn't I take action?

I didn't implement it because I didn't really want to do it. People who don't want to punch in still won't. My compulsory measures may have some effect, but they are not in line with my original intention.

As Professor Zhou Lian said: You can never wake a person who pretends to sleep.

On the other hand, after using the applet, it will take a lot of time to check things such as punching in. I don't want to spend my limited time on this, so I reject this practice from the bottom of my heart, and therefore I have been delaying it.

Change needs internal drive, and heartfelt recognition and willingness to act are effective.

Intrinsic strength

Secondly, the external drive will have a short-term effect, but it will not last long.

Money and fame, the more the better. I don't know, when you get used to this external reward, once you lose the reward, you will lose the motivation to do things from now on. Yang Zhiping?

Then why did you do something?

For example, if the leader wants to report, you don't want to do it. Even if you don't want to do it again, you have to pay it at the last minute, because you are afraid of the consequences of not paying, and you don't want to see such consequences.

Although the internal cause is insufficient, the external cause plays a supplementary role and forces you to do it.

So do many people. They are full of interest when they see their friends start exercising one by one and join in. Unfortunately, it won't last long, and fewer and fewer people insist on exercising. The law of 28 applies to most situations.

There are many courses on the market now, and it is promised that if you can stick to punching in 100 days, you can get a refund, which is equivalent to free study, and you can also exercise your persistence. It feels good, but in my opinion, it's a marketing tool.

There was a girl in my sports group, so I bought such a course, but unfortunately I didn't insist. In fact, if you can't hold on for a week, will you hold on for more than three months for a few hundred dollars? This possibility is relatively low.

It is impossible to persist by external forces alone.

External rewards will not last.

Finally, how can we change this so-called procrastination?

The law of inertia shows that a stationary object will remain stationary unless it is acted by an external force. In other words, objects including people tend to stay where they are. To move forward, people need to push themselves. Inertia tends to keep everyone in place. ? Jim. Randall (also Randal) (M.)

Procrastination is such a powerful law of inertia, so what can we do to change this situation?

The first is to strengthen desire and make it stronger.

Here, you can refer to the dream photo album mentioned in "Qian Qian the Dog", record what you want to do, imagine your mood and harvest after this, find your favorite dream picture and print it out, strengthen this belief, and often browse to remind yourself.

For example, if I want to get a good figure through exercise, I will collect photos of people with good figure I like, print them into color photos, put them in front of my desk and stick them in my bedroom, in short, put them in a conspicuous position. Then imagine how you would feel if you had such a good figure, strengthen this belief, and let yourself want to change from the heart, so as to go to fitness.

The power of dreams

The second is the WOOP thinking method.

Psychologist Ertingen put forward a thinking method: WOOP thinking method, which mainly consists of four parts: desire? Pictures? Obstacle plan.

Determine a wish, imagine the beautiful picture after the wish is realized, foresee the possible obstacles in advance and make preparations, and then make a feasible plan accordingly.

Here is also a beautiful vision to stimulate our internal drive, link reality by foreseeing obstacles, and realize the friendly combination of ideal and reality.

For example, if I want to get up early, I can form good habits and live a more regular life. The hard part is that I may not get up. Then I will get up 20 minutes early, get up when the alarm goes off, step by step.

Change your mind

The third is to form habits.

Habits are hard to change, but they can be replaced by a new habit. As we often say, stick to 2 1 day to form habits, and let behavior become habits and inertia. This will be as normal as eating and brushing your teeth, and it will become a daily behavior.

Just like I started writing a success diary in 2020, I have been insisting on 128 days until now, and I haven't missed a day or made a reminder. That's because the last thing I do before going to bed every day is to record my success diary and post it on the knowledge planet. In this way, more than four months have passed and it has become a part of my life. You won't forget if you don't record it.

This is the power of habit.

The power of habit

In short, procrastination is actually a symptom, but more importantly, we don't really want to do it.

Insufficient internal drive is the main reason, and external drive alone cannot be adhered to. Three methods are recommended here: strengthening desire, WOOP thinking and forming habits.

If you really want to do something, no matter how difficult it is, you will do it. This is the power of faith.