Learn How to Use mindfulness to end procrastination

A few weeks ago, while reading my book “The Procrastination Cure, How to Use Mindfulness Meditation to Stop Procrastinating”, my friend Stephanie Tillman asked me: “Have people ever used meditation as a way of procrastination?”
Do you use mindfulness to end procrastination, or just wasting your time?

That got me thinking. I have been a procrastinator my whole life. It prevents me from reaching my goals, and it is an annoying habit. Since I realized this, I have been committed to reducing my procrastination behavior.

Why is procrastination so destructive?

Procrastination makes you waste time and disrespects its significance in our lives. It can produce substantial obstacles in completing our everyday activities and duties. Procrastination can have a great impact on our performance and productivity. This impact is, of course, negative. It will influence your work, your family life, and, ultimately, your mental and physical health.

I have always assumed that mindfulness is an effective strategy for dealing with procrastination. It is good to use mindfulness to end procrastination.

How can you use mindfulness to end procrastination

My own experience supports this in full, though everyone’s experience is different. I think that mindfulness is the most important skill we can ever learn in our lives. Regarding procrastination, I felt great benefits from mindfulness. I’ve become aware of my thoughts and emotions. Mindfulness enables me to choose if I will react or not deliberately. This way, I can stay with my emotions and thoughts, let them be, while I’m completing the task ahead of me.

For sure, mindfulness improves my self-control, makes me aware of myself, and diminishes feelings of guilt for procrastinating occasionally. For me, it is clear that mindfulness is one of the most precious remedies for curing procrastination. I am sure that you cause mindfulness to end procrastination.

If you are not honest with yourself…

But now when I think more about that question, it is possible to use the time for meditation to, in fact, waste your time. If you are not committed to looking deep inside your thoughts, if you are running down the clock, waiting for meditation time to be over, then, yes, you are procrastinating while meditating. It is such a waste of time. Moreover, you are lying to yourself, convincing yourself that you are fighting against procrastination. It leads nowhere.

The Noble Eight-fold Path

So, first, you must have the right intention. It is one of the parts of the Buddhist Noble Eightfold Path. The Eightfold Path consists of eight practices: right view, right intention, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. Right Intention means dedication that leads to a better understanding of yourself and a better appreciation of the world around us, for loving-kindness, for compassion.

In fact, you must adopt the whole philosophy behind mindfulness meditation to get it right. If you are committed, then you will not lose time, you will begin your journey to become a more productive person.

In conclusion, your life is all about how you make it be. It is your choice. Make it right.

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