 So I'm going to get to a question here from a viewer and it's again on procrastination and what it refers to is I talked in the past about my method for beating procrastination and it is basically to Stop to put it simply right the the controversial part of my approach really is As soon as you procrastinate on a task You basically put in a boundary with it and say okay. Look. I'm stepping away from this now I'll come back to that tomorrow. I've tried today. I procrastinated. I have to stop and that's the consequence There's a lot to it It's as simple as that really to be frank But to explain that fully to people sometimes it takes a book right and let me show you my book here This is procrastination decoded and I outline my approach to overcome and procrastination in the book But I have a question here from I think it's Bella and Bella has implemented this so I guess for Billy it was They realized okay, I keep I keep telling myself I'm going to start I keep moving the time I'll do it later. I'll do it later and they've stopped doing that and now they're being more consistent with the work Okay, it's counterintuitive. I realized that it's completely counterintuitive You know the typical advice we get is to oh, I have to do it do more do more you need to do you need to do it And of course that doesn't work if that worked it'd be pretty simple to solve this issue the truth is it is pretty simple to solve and As long as you know the dynamics of procrastination But Baylor says okay, I get it I Did that and it worked But what they're struggling with now is they're not making any commitment to set an appointment to to to do their project, okay? So you do have to pick a time in my system, right? I tell people just pick a time and You either show up and do it which is fantastic or you don't show up and do it And then you put that consequence in of that's it. I'm walking away from it now Okay, because we're trying to do is stop reinforcing That habit of procrastination itself, which is what I meant by just stop Okay, just stop doing it You'll find after two or three days of implementing that approach Your nervous system realizes that when a decision is made it needs to be followed through one or else it isn't okay It's non-negotiable So Bill's problem is okay. He's doing that, but he's now stopped setting a start time at all Okay, so what I would say about that is pretty simple I get it I get that there's a Reluctance to just pick a time for yourself now at this point, okay? Or you notice that you're procrastinating on picking a time for that and I want you to take all the pressure of yourself I want you to see setting picking a start time for yourself as Almost even not up to you. Okay, it's like Okay, I'll pick pick a start time give myself plenty of rest and I'll pick a start time and you almost want to be turning the tables on the Inner voice that leads to procrastination that inner critic You almost want to be picking a start time to test it Put all the pressure on that inner critic. Okay, almost like you're calling it out almost like you're hoping you procrastinate Right. I know it sounds a bit strange But it's like, let's just see Where I am with this today and if I don't show up, that's fine But pick in the time itself just call out that inner critic The inner critic is the thing that tells you, you know various Contradictory things that really lead to the paralysis in the first place. So if you can just say it yourself Okay I'm gonna pick a start time, but it's not up to me really if I do it or not It either gets done or it doesn't But one thing is for sure, there'll be no more procrastination, right? So the voice that's telling you not to commit to a start time is the procrastination voice trying to make you procrastinate through the back door So take all the pressure off yourself Right, just pick it and call it out to see it as it's not even up to me whether it gets done or not so I'm hoping that that is an approach one other thing to think about with that Is to show you that that voice telling you not to pick a start time at all is the procrastination voice It's telling you oh you need to pick a time. You need to pick a time, right? That's what it'll sound like and then you're not picking the time Realize something it's it feels like you're not making a decision to start. Okay There's already been a decision at that point not to start and if this the decision is I'm not going to start Okay, so you can't really avoid making decisions in this You either pick a time or you don't those are the two decisions the two choices There's always a choice being made you either choose to choose or you choose to not choose Okay, but that way kind of it meta here, right? but Really, it's you can't lose with this. Just call out that inner critic. Oh pick a time. Let's just see I don't know like this thing about promise in myself. Oh, I have to show up at that time The truth is when we're when we're rehabilitating procrastination We actually don't know if we're gonna show up at that time when we pick it. That's what it feels like at the beginning, right? I Don't know if I'm gonna show up. So just don't worry about it. Just say well, let's just see today Let's just test this out Do it as an experiment, but I know if I don't show up to do it. I'm finished. I'm walking away from this I'm no longer going to do this game of Shifting the boundary with work all day long tormenting myself beating myself all the way up with that so Let me know what you think about that and let me know if that is helpful and I know that a few people have had a little stumbling block on that at the beginning, but Basically, it's to choose to make the choice to be more assertive with that inner critic voice Okay, call its bluff put all the pressure on it to see what happens take all the pressure off yourself because You either show up in your work or you don't and both of those options are fine The only thing we're interested in is stopping this shifting boundary all day long. That's it As soon as that's resolved procrastination ends and it happened and you become ten times more productive Than in the past. Okay, so bill. I hope that was helpful and Guys if you want to Check out my book the link is in the description in this video and thanks a million for watching. I'll see you next time