The Now Habit
The very best discipline I've learned is the Now Habit.
First, let me explain exactly what the Now Habit is not. It is not a complex system of rewards I set up for myself if I get certain tasks done. Those have never worked for me. Due to the fact I'm the one in charge of administering those rewards.
If I want those rewards badly enough, I have been known to just take the reward without having done the task beforehand. Bad, bad, bad.
What the Now Habit is, is really a method of keeping my mind in our. I procrastinate after i fool myself into believing I can perform the "dreaded thing" later. That's living in the near future.
I also tend to get down on myself for not doing the "dreaded thing" sooner. So what happens is that instead of congratulating myself after i finally get to work onto it, I blast myself because I ought to considerably farther along than I'm.
Living in the present may be the best way to obtain things done. To keep my thoughts around the now, I personally use affirmations. I repeat, "do it now," or "I will act now" to myself again and again the whole day. Sometimes I have even write these affirmations down ten or twenty times each day, particularly when I was trying to build this habit.
There is an saying (which if any reader can send me the source, I would love to give that individual proper credit) that says:
Sow a thought, reap an act.
Sow an act, reap a habit.
Sow a habit, reap a destiny.
These affirmations are my way of building a habit. A now habit which will force the competing procrastination habit from my life.
Build the now habit. Discover the now affirmations that resonate along with you and repeat them countless times a day. Like several habits, in A 3 week period it will be entrenched inside your consciousness. Reap your personal destiny.
