We’re all familiar with procrastination. For as long as humans have been around, we’ve been postponing the tasks we know we should do. No matter how you experience it, procrastination affects everyone equally. It’s a force that prevents us from creating the life we want. This article will break down how procrastination reigns over us so you can easily understand and apply the strategies to overcome it. Why Do We Procrastinate? The strangeness of procrastination is that we desperately try to avoid a task we’ve picked as the best way to spend our time. Why is it we know what’s ideal but would much rather do anything else?  There are two answers to that question: Time Inconsistency and The DUST Model. Time Inconsistency [...]

Time is the raw material of our lives. How we choose to spend it, shapes our life accordingly. So having the motivation to spend it on achieving goals is crucial to creating a life we want. What is Motivation? The Oxford dictionary defines motivation as the desire or willingness to do something – our drive to take action. Scientifically, motivation has its roots in the dopamine pathways of our brains. When we do something that feels good, that’s dopamine kicking in. Our actions are driven by the desire for that reward (the good feeling). Author Steven Pressfield describes motivation more practically. He says we hit a point where the pain of not doing something becomes greater than the pain of doing it. He [...]