Do Something. Anything. Now.
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 6/26/2015 1:00:00 AM
What are you waiting for?
Although I'm one of the biggest procrastinators that has ever walked the planet, I know the only way you can break that habit is to regularly do things that you've been putting off. It doesn't have to be something particularly complicated, time consuming, or even important. It just has to be something you've put off. The confidence you'll get from doing that one thing will snowball into bigger and more important things until "Getting Things Done" becomes your middle name.
The key thing here is that you commit to doing something you've been putting off every single day. You can't skip a day, especially on those days when you are too busy or too tired to get things done. That's when your commitment to getting things done truly blossoms.
Here's a hypothetical example. Let's say you wanted to start a daily video blog over 10 years ago, but you never found the time to start it. You finally decide to launch it, even though you still don't have time to record your videos.
Since it's a daily blog, you commit to posting one thing every day. Almost a year later, it still doesn't have any videos, but at least you've been posting every day and you start growing an audience.
Then you come home late one night, and you're too tired to post a new blog entry that night. Although your audience is growing, it's still small enough that only a handful of people would notice if you skipped that day.
In this hypothetical example, the best thing to do would be to stick to your commitment, and post something... anything, or you'll eventually fall back into the procrastination habit. It doesn't matter what you post... heck you could even write a post about why you should get things done and you shouldn't put things off.
Hypothetically, of course. 
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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