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Procrastination Is Stopping You From Reaching Your Potential: Beat It

Procrastination Is Stopping You From Reaching Your Potential: Beat It

Procrastination is self-harming at a mental level.

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Bryan Dijkhuizen
Apr 25, 2023
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Procrastination Is Stopping You From Reaching Your Potential: Beat It
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Last year my sister told me she had issues with getting productive and staying focused when doing her school. She’s a procrastinator, and she wants that to stop so she asked me for tips.

Procrastination is very humane, everybody does it — including me. But it’s very comforting to not do something instead of doing something.

Like many other bad habits, you can get rid of it, but you need to work on it and nobody can help you — you gotta do it yourself.

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