Conscientiousness: How I Stopped Procrastinating and Got Shit Done

the_real_chronos_ · 2017-03-27T02:19:42+00:00

Honestly as a lifelong procrastinator and one of those guys who waited until the last possible moment to study for a test or get work done in school/college what's helped me the most is just doing it.

There's no fucking secret. Just turn off your shifty mind and get your boots on the ground. The quicker you accept that life will occasionally suck and you will have to do things you don't want to do the faster you become a man who gets shit done.

Do I need to get something done? If the answer is yes, I force myself to get angry at the thought of being a lazy fuck going nowhere in life, wasting my time and potential and I do it. Eventually it builds up and now I'm consistently doing shit I never dreamed I could do. Hell, I'm even enjoying it. It's crazy and a 100% personality shift from who I was.

Also, get the fuck out of social media (FB, Twitter, Snapchat, etc). It eats time out of your day like you wouldn't believe and it makes it hard to focus on anything when your phone is providing an infinite amount of distractions 24/7.

x0diego0x · 2017-03-27T00:29:03+00:00

Watch the Zen of ZFG (zero fucks given) by Turd Flinging Monkey.

15935713975 · 2017-03-26T22:46:03+00:00

70 not sure if i should be happy about that or not

DumbHeadCanon · 2017-03-27T02:37:43+00:00

i don't buy information except internet service. also that test is like the same questions over and over. no.

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Herpnderp145 · 2017-03-26T23:41:24+00:00

Thank you sir! This is something I really need.

MuscleCarz · 2017-03-27T13:27:19+00:00

"Taking Responsibility" by Nathaniel Brandon is another hard-hitting book as well.

It's amazing how most people live "unconsciously"...avoiding uncomfortable facts and realities that aren't in line with their warm and fuzzy lifestyles. They do this to their own detriment, because it's easier than facing uncomfortable truth.

This is the key difference between MGTOW and Feminists. MGTOW are willing to engage in rational debate, just back up your shit with FACTS. Feminists, on the other hand, HATE FACTS that aren't in line with their erroneous ideological beliefs and continue to spew out , invalid shit shit like the Gender Wage Gap, because it has great sound bite but is completely fallacious.

sharpshaaman · 2017-03-27T03:04:10+00:00

Thanks for the book suggestion. Passed up on the affiliate link though.

Ontrus · 2017-03-27T07:50:09+00:00

Conscientiousness has a genetic component, but of course you can improve it. There are entire countries like Prussia and Singapore that are proof. I can also recommend you to cut surfing time (I use Leechblock in Firefox for that) and chose more carefully which media you consume (most media is useless).

DWShimoda · 2017-04-04T20:15:07+00:00

Here's a couple of other SIMPLE things to change your mind/attitude and to "Get R Dun"...

Most people tend to "blow things up/out of proportion" -- that is we make some "job" BIGGER in our minds, so BIG that we cannot hope to complete it in some (conversely "shrunk") period of time -- and then we use THAT combination as an excuse to "do nothing" instead... we do it with both TIME and MONEY.

Per example, people will rationalize (with a valid basis) that "even if I were able to save my ENTIRE paycheck this whole year, I'd never be able to buy a house with it."* -- which is a TRUE statement for 99.9999% of people.

But of course you CANNOT "swallow an elephant whole" so to speak -- yet you CAN in fact eat a whole elephant -- if you do it a little bit at a time (couple of pounds of meat per day).

Ergo instead of allowing your brain to OVERsize the TASK, and to UNDERsize the amount of time -- you need to do the opposite -- you need to "chop up" the task into manage portions, portions that you can REALISTICALLY "devour" (achieve) in a reasonable amount of time.

So, instead of envisioning buying a house with a single year salary -- you set the goal to be "save up a downpayment" (and on a small/modest sized {aka cheap} home) -- and you set the timeframe to be "a couple of years"; then you further reduce that to "saving a PORTION of a down payment THIS year"... even if it's only 10% of a 10% downpayment; it makes it "doable" (especially if you divide it down further into some TRIVIAL amount to be set aside each week or each paycheck -- even just $20 a week {an amount many people blow at Starbucks or McD's} x ~50 weeks in a year is $1,000... that's NOT going to buy a house, but it's a GOOD start on saving up a small downpayment on a "starter" home).

The same thing when it comes to even MORE mundane things -- say the kitchen sink has gotten FULL of dishes (a week or more worth) -- we AVOID doing them (especially washing by hand) because we DREAD spending an hour or two doing nothing but dishes...

But... if you set your goal to be just washing the utensils -- the forks, knives, spoons -- well THAT probably isn't multiple hours, it's maybe 15 minutes worth -- and of course you can conveniently SUBDIVIDE that into 5 minutes of a goal of "washing the forks"; then the next trip through the kitchen another 5 minutes of "washing the knives"; then the spoons... then you move onto the cups, glasses, plates, etc... Several little 5 minute things at a time, and you'll soon have the "BIG (dreaded) task" cut down to the point where you can see the proverbial "light at the end of the tunnel"... and you'll probably be motivated enough to clean up the rest.

* And as "absurd" as that statement sounds... I've heard EXACTLY that (and variations of it about "buying a car" even "buying a computer" {or some other tool, project, etc}) -- the SPECIFIC "timeframe" of earning is always PRE-SELECTED so as to BE "absurd/impractical" relative to the "goal" -- ergo house vs annual income, car vs summer (3 to 6 months of) paychecks; computer versus single paycheck, etc. Yet of course these SAME people have ZERO problem managing to come up with SOME means of buying a "smartphone" and/or "new/fad/fashion clothes" not to mention drinks/drugs, club-hopping, fast-food, etc. (And of course an alternate reason for the "I can't SAVE & pay cash" is that it rationalizes the use of the credit card -- made even worse with so called "rewards" cards.)

peaches6666 · 2017-04-03T22:20:54+00:00

Thanks for the post, I'm going to check out the links.

The thing that's helped me the most is this Mark Twain quote:

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

I repeat that to myself when I realize I've been procrastinating.

Conscientiousness: How I Stopped Procrastinating and Got Shit Done

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What are these "FakeBook" and "Twatter" and "Snatchit" things you speak of???

Here's a couple of other SIMPLE things to change your mind/attitude and to "Get R Dun"...

Title	Conscientiousness: How I Stopped Procrastinating and Got Shit Done
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