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Ending Procrastination

The opposite of perseverance is procrastination. Perseverance means you never quit. Procrastination usually means you never get started, although the inability to finish something is also a form of procrastination.

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The opposite of perseverance is procrastination. Perseverance means you never quit. Procrastination usually means you never get started, although the inability to finish something is also a form of procrastination.

Remember, the basis of procrastination could be fear of failure. That's what perfectionism really is, once you take a hard look at it.

The first principle is: break it down.

When people start to look that far ahead, many of them automatically go into a negative mode.

My second technique for defeating procrastination is also only three words long. The three words are: write it down.

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