Psychology Hack to Stop Procrastination: Stop asking your feelings what to do. Your feelings are built from your current reality. So if you follow them, you’ll keep recreating the same life. That’s why you don’t feel like doing the hard things. Instead, ask a different question: “What would the bigger version of me do today?” That version of you already exists. He doesn’t wait to feel ready. He doesn’t negotiate with comfort. He moves first. And when you act like him, you become him. This is how you break procrastination. This is how you shift your identity. Follow me and comment UPSPIRAL and I’ll send you more about my manifestation program. #StopProcrastinating #PsychologyHacks #FutureSelf #DisciplineMindset #UpSpiral
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Do you think I wanted to wake up at 5 a.m. and go for a run today? No! No, I ething didn't feel like it! Half the time, I don't feel like doing anything! But I don't rely on my feelings to do things, because my feelings are a reflection of my current reality. I acknowledge my feelings, I allow my feelings, but I don't rely on them to steer my life. I rely on who I want to be in this lifetime, the bigger version of me. What would that guy do today? Would he get up at 5 a.m. and go for a run before the workday starts? In the dark? Yep, and that's what I'm doing. Would he snooze the alarm? I don't think so. Do I feel like snoozing the alarm? Yeah! So I don't ask my feelings if I want to do it, because the answer is no. I ask my future self what he wants me to do, and then I do that. I do it for that guy. In fact, I do it as that guy. Because if I listen to my feelings, all the parts of me that are dealing with my current reality, then all I'm going to do is recreate my current reality. I want to go to my desired reality. I don't want just more of this, so from this place where I am right now, I ask my future self, what are we doing today? And that guy is like, "You're going for a run." And I'm like, "Okay." And then I start to go that way toward my future self, who's already living in the bigger version of me. See how this works? Write "Upspiral" in the comments to remember all of this in your body. "Upspiral" in the comments. Like the video? Follow me and click the link in my bio. We're enrolling our new program in manifestation at "Upspiral.life" and I want to meet you inside the program. Vibrant beings have a great day.
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