To the existence of the problem of procrastination book I came, reading the comments on Layfhakere. Tips are controversial and ambiguous, are not suitable for everyone. But there are effective universal recommendations, and I always wondered why a similar article with tips are contained comments like: "This is an accordion!", "It does not work" or "The author would be more ..."? Why is this happening, I understand from your coaching practice.
Among those I teach are very rare people narrow-minded and unthinking. For the most part it is a clot purposeful and active people. What do you think, how many of them will perform a very simple task of training during the week, which takes no more than one minute a day? About 30%! Do you think that all attempts to achieve practical action, of all persuasions, exhortations, threats, and motivation greatly change the business? Not too much. If I am at all.
What happens to these 70%? Since they have spent time and effort, received serious information, but did not find any changes in life, they are disappointed. Not in itself, and in books, articles, recommendations and author. It threatened to break my mind, and in order to save his mind, I started to look for reasons and explanations for this behavior. First surfaced banal laziness. And without it, of course, it has not done. But it was felt that more and more difficult, and I continued to look for the causes. As a result, they had a few.
Why does the book do not change our lives
Incorrect paradigm or knowledge as a goal
Unfortunately, procrastination book grows on fatty soil modern knowledge of worship. And the imposition of the cult begins at school, when the child is assessed for the lessons learned, and... That's all. No matter what you do with that knowledge, whether it is useful to you and whether it is necessary in life, whether it will do better than you, your life or the lives of others, the main thing - to know. Knowledge acts as a goal, and the one who knows, is worthy of respect and honor. It is the fruit of mediocre personalities and unsatisfied.
That's why people brag about several university degrees, honors, stuffed himself different facts and arrogantly demonstrate the company or comments on Layfhakere his erudition. In another way, they do not want to sell their knowledge. They may not know as well, probably not even aware that it is possible in another way.
Imagine a room, downtrodden by all possible instruments, the purchase of which spent a lot of time and money, but who have never used and will never use it. Is your head for such storage is not like?
Knowledge is valuable and useful, if we treat them not as an end but as a tool to achieve the goal.
Magic button
This problem, like the first, is based on a misconception about the knowledge. But if in the first case, the value of knowledge exaggerating here They are credited with mystical properties, who miraculously change a person's life and solve all their problems even without his participation and effort.
I know people who lie on the couch, absorbing books, like a toad mosquitoes and waiting for more than a year when their lives miraculously change. Consciously or not, they think that the knowledge itself should already make in their lives what promises to book. And then they criticize the author, book or article and call tips "ineffective accordion."
Superficial reading or reading for plot
This is another habit we acquired in childhood and hinders receive practical benefits from practical books. From infancy we tell stories that, you know, the reality have little in common. Growing up, we begin to read art books. This is more like a reality, but it also remains an invention of another person. So we acquire the habit of not taken seriously to what is contained in the books.
We can understand that the author spent more than one hundred research and has many years of experience on the subject of the book, but our Model related to the content read, whether we like it or not, is formed on the respect of the fruits of someone else's fantasy.
A maximum that usually give tales, fiction and other fables - is moralizing. They do not call, with rare exceptions, to some changes in the real life, and even more rarely gives actionable advice for these changes, because in essence created for entertainment, but not change.
Information noise and oversaturation
Information noise interferes with concentration and practice the acquired knowledge. He keeps us in constant fear that we may miss something effective and useful. As a result, we do not deal with changes in themselves and their lives, and are constantly collecting, analyzing and sorting more and more new techniques and tips.
Perhaps, in addition to the above reasons, there are others, but it is often important to know not the cause of the problem and its solution. Consider four ways to overcome procrastination book.
How to help yourself to change your life by reading books
1. Changing the paradigm - is one of the few cases where the mere knowledge can change lives. But here, we can give practical advice and take concrete action.
Find ways to motivate yourself to appreciate only knowledge, technology applied in practice. For example, consider how much practical advice you received, how many have realized and how it has changed. Of course, in this case it is not about specific numbers, but at least the approximate amount available to everyone. And then try to imagine how would have changed your life and how much progress you have made, if used all the advice into practice. Or think about how stupid and pointless to spend time and money on the book, but did not use any of advice from it.
2. Take the simplest practical advice and try it at the earliest opportunity. If the book is sensible, it will work, and it will inspire you to try, and others. Remember that there will always be a temptation to ignore the very simple tips. This is because it seems like simple advice leads to small results, so they do not waste time. But, as proved Chip and Dan Heath in their book "The Heart of Change", It is often small changes lead to enormous changes.
3. Create a kind of base of practical advice data (BDPS). Are recorded in it are all found in books and articles, recommendations. If you have already saved your favorite you with its novelty and beauty of ideas and thoughts, it is still rewound separate database only for practical advice, because you have to work with it almost every day.
And then everything is very simple: open BDPS, choose advice - if you can not realize it at random - and practice them one day, week or month. The duration depends on the type of advice. There is investment advice, the outcome of which can be seen through time. Such, for example, include marketing tips. And there are tips, instantly giving the result. For example, reception of "fly on the wall" from the book "Willpower" Walter Michel instant help (check for yourself) to pull myself together so as not to be rude, do not yell or not to take offense.
BDPS can be created without any structure, and can be divided into living areas: marketing, relations, speed reading, foreign languages, running and so on. So we will be able to develop in parallel a few items from our database. Once you understand that the council does not suit you, and drove him to the use of automatism and turned into a habit, move on to the next.
If you are reading a book on your tablet or smartphone, using electronic organizer and know how to use the button "Share", then the creation of BDPS you will leave no more than two minutes.
4. Do not wait until you collect all of the methods, tools and life hackingTo begin radically changed his life. Say to yourself "Quite a bit - it is immeasurably greater than anything"- select the first available even advice, but select and proceed to his incarnation as soon as possible. Better yet, create the opportunity yourself.
Act!
In conclusion, I want to say that this article does not claim to finality and infallibility. Therefore, if you have additions, their methods and personal experience in dealing with procrastination book or disagreement, share all of this in the comments. Let us work together to find solutions "on paper" to life has changed in reality.
And do not forget that the four points for BDPS you already have.