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What Helps Productivity In Life Is Simply Just Starting

What To Expect?

In today’s article, what helps productivity in life is simply just starting is an article that will change your life. We all deep down want to be productive and do well. Then the magnitude of the task or the feeling of doing it isn’t quite aligned to get started. We’ve all been there but the simple technique of just starting will change all that.

What Happens If You Don’t Just Start Something

If you don’t start a task that is challenging straight away. Procrastination will start to build up and become a habit every time something challenging comes your way.

For the mind, you will always feel regret alongside a host of other emotions because you didn’t just start the task. Not starting straight away will lead to a build-up of work and a to-do list that will become more overwhelming for your mind to cope with.

How stressful is it when you have to hand in an assignment and you start the night before to complete it? It’s super stressful and you always say to yourself why didn’t you just start this earlier.

The habit of putting things off has to stop because it’s doing damage to your productivity, standards of work and mental wellbeing. The major difference is that when you’re competing in life. The person who gets started first will have a better chance at succeeding than someone who doesn’t. This then can become a compound factor where the choices you make today can affect your tomorrow and future self.

The Benefits Of Just Starting

What Helps Productivity In Life Is Simply Just Starting
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Just starting can lead to many benefits within your life.

If you apply just starting, over time you will see the true benefits of this strategy to your productivity and overall level of success in what you do.

How many times do people put off going to the gym or following their passion? From my experience, I hear it a lot. Compare this to someone who doesn’t make excuses or procrastinates enjoy major success. The hardest part is always getting started. But I hear it time and time again that after someone does start they always carry on and are glad they just started it. The unknown can be scary and that’s what can hold people off sometimes. But I’d rather live a life knowing it wasn’t the right thing rather than regretting I didn’t just start.

The Effect Just Starting Has On Productivity

Productivity can be improved just by starting straight away and can drastically improve your output. This leads to life-changing scenarios and mental health will be improved because you will be progressing as a person. What damages mental health is procrastination, regret and not following through.

Getting started straight away also allows you to improve your preparation too. By ticking off all your to-do lists and finishing all your objectives allows more free time to do the things you want with a mentally healthy mind.

There is a unique feeling you get when you just start something to know it’s ahead of schedule and don’t have to think about it again. That’s why just getting started gives you that great feeling of life.

How Can You Apply Just Starting Technique Today

1. Make It Easy

No one wants to start anything difficult, break it down and trick the brain by making it easy to start.

2. Set Alarms

You can have alarms set for when you want to start something. When your planning you always feel good to attack a goal. It’s only when you have to do it, emotions can change. So by setting an alarm, it’s a signal to the brain that you have to do it.

3. Fear Of Loss The Mind

When it comes to the time you have to start but your brain is trying to drag you to procrastination. You envision a future if you don’t do it. Scaring yourself of the future you will have if you don’t start is an effective way to move your mind into action. When humans backs are against the wall they usually act and succeed. Using this fear of loss strategy can work wonders in the short term.

4. Let The Feeling Of Not Doing It Flow

Trying to stop a feeling only allows the feeling to grow. But letting It flow through you and be ok with it helps it not control your future choices. When you do experience the feeling of procrastination just say NO to it and say your why to yourself. This helps create no struggle with your mind but redirects to what you really want to do.

5. Having Your WHY In Front Of You

Whether it’s posted notes of inspiration, your family or your vision board. Knowing what your WHY is can transform you into action. When we fully understand our WHY it becomes a non-negotiable feeling of things that have to get done.

6. Don’t Think, Just Do

When the brain is about to put negative ideas into your mind. Shut it down straight away and let that be the first sign of just starting. This trick allows you to know when it’s time to get to work.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today article, what helps productivity in life is simply just starting.

Just starting is so beneficial to the productivity and the future you vision for yourself. So many people waste their talents because they didn’t just start.

With the tips of how to get started, I have written above. I hope this gives you a clear strategy of how to implement it for yourself. But the choice always comes from within you. Only you can decide when to start. Once you know it’s your choice, you must act on it with everything in your life.

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I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.

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5 Things You Must Not Do In Life That Stops Success

What To Expect?

In today’s article, 5 things you must not do in life that stops success.

I will explain the preventive measures we need to apply to move our life forward. We should look at all the things we must stop that holds us back. Looking at it as anchors that weigh us down so much that it stops us from succeeding. Only then can you find solutions to move forward.

I hope this article opens your mind to self-awareness and a change you have been searching for.

What Prevents Success?

For me, this is a simple question to answer. The answer is YOU! There’s always obstacles and different challenges we all have to face in different ways. What gets in the way the most is ourselves. Whether it’s doubt, fear or a lack of self-confidence. It’s our own mind that needs to change to be a success.

I think we all deal with this. But the people who do succeed are the one’s who don’t let it control them and find ways to prevent it from surfacing or find ways to push through it.

The human brain will always let you know when it perceives something as being dangerous but you always have the choice to listen to it or ignore it and do it anyway. In some cases this is good but when it comes to overcoming our fears we silence that voice. For example, the brain can only see you jumping out of the plane as danger whereas your human part knows that you are skydiving.

Working together with your brain to understand your life by knowing the difference between danger and progress can help you achieve a lot more success.

To make sure our mind doesn’t hold us back. There are 5 things you must not do in life that stops success that I will discuss below. Once we get out of our own way. Then we can enjoy all the successes we have envisioned.

5 Things You Must Not Do In Life That Stops Success

1. Don’t Live With Regret

One of the most painful things the older generation say is they regret the things they didn’t do or regret not being happier. No one wants to get old and have major regrets. That’s why you have to look at it every day as if this was the last day on earth.

This thinking will unlock a feeling of urgency and purpose. Because when you don’t think like this you can use good old procrastination and say to yourself I will do it tomorrow. This mentality does not understand we only have a short time on Earth.

That’s why you should make it your life purpose to take more risks, to do the things you love to do, spend it with the people you love and travel to the places you have always wanted to visit.

Get out of your own way and make this happen. I promise you, you won’t regret it.

2. Don’t Live With Fear

Fear can affect us all in different ways. It can be great when sensing real danger like spider-sense but it’s not too good at switching off when we need to overcome our fears to progress.

That’s why we can’t always listen to fear, we must rationalise for the world we live in today not the one we lived in thousands of years ago. Living with fear holds people back so much from pursuing their goals and wants in life.

That’s why we need to chase our discomforts because on the other side of fear you experience a whole range of different emotions, like happiness and proudness.

So get out of your own head and do the things you want to do and when fear pops up again let it flow through you and do it anyway.

3. Don’t Live With Too Much Comfort

We live life these days like never before in human history. The kings and queens of the past might even be jealous. But one thing successes hates is comfort because nothing of progress comes from a mindset of comfort. Why? Because you will never push your self into a position where you might fail or make mistakes.

That’s why you should seek and chase discomfort as your life depends on it. Basic comfort needs are great but you need to find ways to condition yourself to not let this become everything you are. Just watch Rocky 4.

Comfort breeds complacency you just have to look at sports stars who let their comforts change them into different people. Whereas what got them to the top was the discomfort. Don’t let comfort suck you in or else you will be trapped and lead an unfulfilled life.

4. Don’t Live With A Mindset Of What Always Was

Living in the past can seriously hold you back if you let it. Just like the anchor analogy. Being anchored to the past stops any progress in the present and future. You have to learn to go to the past for good feelings.

The world changes, people change and the ability to adapt to the changing times is crucial to keeping ahead of the game of life. If you just keep doing what you did in the past then watch your business crumble.

We see it all the time with retail giants having to sell up because they didn’t go online. Instead of having a mindset, this has always been the way you should have what could be a new way.

5. Don’t People Please

Deep down we all know what we want to do with our life. But sometimes our attachment to our family’s wants can hold us back. If we people please too much we will surely affect our mental health and become unhappy with the person we are becoming that’s not who we are. So don’t people please. Look out for you and what you want from your life.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today article, 5 things you must not do in life that stops success

These are my 5 five don’ts. What are yours?

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