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Summary: You can end procrastination forever, and move confidently towards your goals.

Category: Small Business

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Beat Procrastination With Your GPS (Goal Positioning System)

Copyright © 2003 by Angela Booth

** The first article about using your GPS: "Use Your GPS (Goal Positioning System) To Achieve Your Goals", appeared in Issue 28 of CSB. Go to

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Researchers estimate we only use around two to ten per cent of our brainpower each day.

This means that much of mental processing power you've got is rusting away, unused. This is literally true, because when your brain cells die they aren’t replaced. If you could find ways to access more of your fantastic brainpower, what could you achieve? Could you double or triple your current income?

The first article on your GPS (Goal Positioning System) outlined how you use it. Here's process in a nutshell: you set clear, time-limited goals, you visualize yourself successfully completing tasks and achieving your goals every day, you use your intuition, you write ABOUT what you want, and why you want it, and you create and use a daily task list.

The key to accessing more of your brainpower lies in tasks that you procrastinate on. When you resist something, resistance uses up more energy than completing task. Your resistance also leads to feelings of guilt and unworthiness, and these feelings lower your overall effectiveness, which means you use even less of your total brainpower.

Here's how to use your GPS to tackle your procrastination:

=> Write down where you are, exactly what you want to do, and how you want to feel while you're doing it

"But I already know what I want to do," you protest.

Yes, that's true. But part of you is weaseling out. Your left brain might want to complete task, but if you're procrastinating, it's a sign that your right brain and your unconscious mind have other ideas. For whatever reason, they want no part of task and will do their best to ensure that you don’t do it.

Procrastination's insidious. If you're procrastinating, you'll find any number of super-logical reasons NOT to do task. You'll suddenly remember those phone calls you have to make. Or that you haven’t called your mother all week. Or that you really need to check on how your online auctions are doing.

Let's imagine a scenario. Let's say you're procrastinating on mowing lawn. The grass is almost to your knees and your house-proud neighbors are so peeved that they turn away when they see you.

Take out a pen and paper and write down where you are, what you want to do, and how you want to feel while you're doing it.

Are you an undiscovered writer? Is there an artist inside you just itching to be let out? Do you see a musician in your dreams but not in reality?

What are your hidden talents?

If your answer is "I have none", then that's wrong answer.

We are all creative in more ways than one. It's just too bad we're also our own worst critics.

We envy those people who seem to follow their hearts effortlessly. We see works of art every day, but can't imagine ourselves actually being artist. We dream of becoming a creative individual that others admire.

Are you wasting your talents by ignoring them and living your life in a sea of blindness?

Well don't feel alone, because there are many of us.