If you haven't been there, I don't believe you.
If you haven't had an off day, you've never lived.
If you haven't dealt with self defeating thoughts and procrastination, you're probably not a human.
All of us deal with it. Maybe not every day, but we do deal with procrastination and self defeating thoughts. Ironically, your first plan of action is to reach out for advice, especially if it becomes a troubling, habitual process. Tasks become daunting and thoughts about the tasks and thoughts about yourself or others may decrease progression and cause you to stop enjoying your life to its potential.
However...
There is a solution. A small easy step that I am going to make so simple for you, you'll be wondering why you have been overthinking how to handle the smallest problems in your life. You will need to make this a natural process for its affects to become habitual. You will need to remain disciplined and engaged for it to work. But, you will be ever so satisfied once you start applying it.
Step 1: A thought enters your mind. This thought may be troubling. It may carry with it excess energy. It may be a thought that is crippling you from being able to complete the task. This is your male hamster speaking. This is your mind ruminating again about the past. This is your mind chasing something in the blue pill world.
Step 1: Become super aware of your thoughts. Notice and point out what is occurring. Whatever it may be.
"I am procrastinating." "I am romancing and fantasizing thoughts about a woman from the blue pill world." "I am acting needy and insecure."
Step 2: After you've pointed the thought out. The male hamster has been seen. He hides and ducks whilst still spinning in his wheel hoping you will not conquer him and allow him to finish his business.
Step 2: Accept the thought. "I accept that I do not want to finish this last set." "I accept that I am thinking about my ex girlfriend."
Step 3: You've now accepted that this thought is occurring. You do not try to fight this thought. You are just pointing it out, and accepting that it exists as a thought in your mind.
Step 3: Your mental approach is one of calm and collected. You look at your thoughts as playful little children (or women.). You do not try to fight the thought, as this will inadvertently allow it to gain momentum. You are not to force it. At this point, you feel a calm sense, a sense that you're not your thoughts and you have
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