I liked The Now Habit. Again, I'm not a procrastinator, so the stuff that stuck with me might not be the same things that would stick with the target audience.
Some things I really liked were some "replace this phrase with that" type mind hacks. My favorite one being to change "I have to finish by..." with "When can I start...", which really puts the emphasis back on choice (you don't HAVE TO start, you CHOOSE TO start), and also focuses on the very next step rather than looking at the whole huge slog of a project all at once. There's also a certain nice eagerness to it. :)
I would say the biggest single focus was on something like "keep starting, and let finishing take care of itself". There was a lot about solid 30-minute blocks of work and always rewarding yourself. Also, committing really hard to your non-work time, so that work time feels limited and precious and you're more eager to use it.
The part about fear of success was mostly about making sure to always be committed to your enjoyment of life, with guilt-free time blocked out, essentially (though it didn't put it this way) so that you CAN'T work unsustainable levels and thereby get trapped into some level of expectation that's truly too high.
Custom clothes: a lot of knitters make custom sweaters, including past-me! Beyond that, though, it seems rare. makeyourownjeans.com is cheap enough to make me cringe -- $65 per pair?? I would have paid easily double or maybe more for a similar US-based service, but there was none to be found.
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Date: 2016-10-19 03:27 am (UTC)Some things I really liked were some "replace this phrase with that" type mind hacks. My favorite one being to change "I have to finish by..." with "When can I start...", which really puts the emphasis back on choice (you don't HAVE TO start, you CHOOSE TO start), and also focuses on the very next step rather than looking at the whole huge slog of a project all at once. There's also a certain nice eagerness to it. :)
I would say the biggest single focus was on something like "keep starting, and let finishing take care of itself". There was a lot about solid 30-minute blocks of work and always rewarding yourself. Also, committing really hard to your non-work time, so that work time feels limited and precious and you're more eager to use it.
The part about fear of success was mostly about making sure to always be committed to your enjoyment of life, with guilt-free time blocked out, essentially (though it didn't put it this way) so that you CAN'T work unsustainable levels and thereby get trapped into some level of expectation that's truly too high.
Custom clothes: a lot of knitters make custom sweaters, including past-me! Beyond that, though, it seems rare. makeyourownjeans.com is cheap enough to make me cringe -- $65 per pair?? I would have paid easily double or maybe more for a similar US-based service, but there was none to be found.