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A Complete Guide on Procrastination Content -Reasons and Forms of Procrastination -Solutions to Procrastination Reasons and Forms of Procrastination 1. Lack of Self Trust (High Self-Criticism) Surprisingly, the greatest reason for procrastination is high levels of self-criticism, or lack of self-trust. Once you start doubting whether what you are doing will work for you, it becomes near impossible to act. You’ll be spending more time over-thinking than you’ll be spending acting. You’ll worry if you’ll be able to stick. And if you won’t be able to stick and stay consistent, then it does not make sense to act. Moreover, your past justifies the same. You have indeed broken cycles of consistency way too often. This time, you might be willing to change. Though as long as your mind is stuck in the past, you will gradually shift towards quitting. And one day you’ll stop acting. Something similar works when you have a constraint like time. For instance, you worry whether you will be able to complete the task in time. You doubt yourself. Hence, you end up never starting. Cause you already question whether you can complete the task (like completing a college project). 2. Excess of Time In contrast to the last part of the previous reason, procrastination can also take place due to excess of time. You probably have 10 weeks before the final submission day. These leads to a loss of stress. The same stress which is required to act. Without sufficient stress, the mind can't attain enough seriousness and willingness to act. To understand this better, remember the time you finally decided to change. What was the origin of your want for change? In most cases, it was due to certain negative event in life which gave you enough stress to change. Due to excess time, stress cannot play it’s role on you. 3. Extremely Short and Long Tasks The problem with over 95% of you is simply that either you take up too much work or you di-sect the task into way too short of a task (atomic habits). In case of long and heavy tasks, the fear of non-completion and the pain of acting, lead you to not act. You fear that you may never be able to complete the task. Additionally, you do not want to go through the pain at any cost. In case of short tasks or atomic habits, they become extremely easy to postpone. For instance, you can easily postpone 5 minutes of meditation. You might sleep with the promise to meditate in the morning. You might wake up with the promise to meditate in the afternoon. You might reach the afternoon with the promise to meditate before sleeping. And the cycle continues infinitely. Atomic habits are so small that you “think” you can do it anytime. Though the “anytime” never comes. You continue postponing the task. 4. Productive Avoidance This is where things get tricky. With productive avoidance, you are acting. You are doing something. You are feeling busy. You are sounding productive. Though you are acting on the wrong thing. For instance, you are spending hours creating the perfect template for your new year resolution, while you should be working on your new year resolution. For another instance, you are constantly spending time opening your emails and DMs to check for some so called “important” messages. Thus, wasting your time while sounding productive. There are dozens of similar examples. Wherein you are acting, but on the wrong thing. This has only gotten worse with Modern World Distractions. Citizens from over the globe are busy giving their opinions on Ukraine-Russia, while they should be working on their own life, cause in reality they truly know nothing about the war. Look, I get it. You are worried about the suffering. If I were in their place, I probably wouldn't like it (even though I know the suffering means nothing). Though right now, you have your own problems. Spending time worrying about someone else's problems only leads to procrastination. You can find such examples in your every-day life.

Weekly Recommendations Week 2 Theme: Podcast and Interviews for when you feel lazy, stressed, and purposeless 1. Steven Bartlett X Jordan Peterson https://youtu.be/3uLDin9A9pc 2. Joe Rogan X Kevin hart https://youtu.be/XW_KhFq4LQo 3. Tom Bilyeu X Brendon Burchard https://youtu.be/YRWHMuRJ3cw 4. Andrew Huberman X Dr. Robert Sapolsky https://youtu.be/DtmwtjOoSYU 5. Tom Bilyeu X Jay Shetty https://youtu.be/GXoErccq0vw 6. Tom Bilyeu X Gary Vee https://youtu.be/-lITalyctN4 7. Dhru Purohit X Andrew Huberman https://youtu.be/NKyyF9MQXn4 STAY BASED

A Complete Guide on Procrastination will be posted today!

A thought to munch on Tomorrow: "You can't control thoughts and emotions" Who is the creator of those thoughts and emotions? If it's you, why can't you control it? If it's your mind and heart, ain't the mind and heart "yours"? If it's someone else, when did you give them the power? Have a Based Weekend

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Morning Thought When you decide to act, it takes 5-20 seconds to motivate yourself. Take longer and your mind will start creating reasons for not acting. Withing those 5-20 seconds be so firm and determined that you start without a second thought. Else, before you know, you'll by stuck for hours creating reasons and regretting.

How chasing happiness, validation and social status can lead to motivation and actions The phrase “Money won’t make you happy” is recklessly thrown out. Often I have had a similar standpoint on the matter. I absolutely believe that the only way to stay happy is by yourself. You cannot be dependent on anything for your happiness. Something similar to what I mentioned in the Thread. Though, you being able to achieving something can be highly dependent on you chasing happiness, validation, social status, etc. Here the chase starts to act as a drive. I wouldn’t be wrong if I say that till date most of you (or even all of you) want to gain wealth for similar reasons. You are attached to certain objects or feelings, and you want it. You saw some random guy on Insta with lambo and chicks, and got jealous. Maybe you want to boast your money. Maybe you want to prove some people wrong. Maybe you want a million-dollar car. Or maybe you just want to get out of poverty. When you look at it from a wider perspective, none of your reason truly make sense. Except for the fact that they drive you. They bring hunger inside of you. Thus, forming confusion. You do know that the material objects are never gonna satisfy you. At the same time, you cannot let go off them. After all, we are programmed and conditioned over the years to believe so. You can justify it by attaching this “want for more” as a part of the nature. But hey, we are nature. If it’s a part of nature, we created it. So, stop justifying it. Coming back to the point, these driving forces are not complete in themselves. They can push you only so much. After that you have to learn to go through pain. Though without these driving forces, nothing seems to be possible. You can obviously drive yourself through love. Though for most people, it's not possible to instantaneously shift their source of drive. It can only be done over a period of time through introspection and deep understanding. Until then you will have to rely on other driving forces like social status, validation, etc. Which makes it important for us to end this confusion. Thus, presenting the process of “2 Part Growth” If you never truly understand how money does not lead to happiness, you will get stuck in the matrix. You will forever live programmed, unhappy and in a loop. You will keep wanting more and stay miserable all along. While if you suddenly leave the matrix, you won’t be able to sustain. Small things like lack of food and rent will keep bothering you. You will surely live free of the programming, but you won’t have anything to live with. You will suffer endlessly. Thus, making it important for you to grow both aspects simultaneously. You have to let programming affect you to an extent where you can not only sustain, but live freely. At the same time, you have to have a limit. After which you start to focus on understanding life. In better terms, you have to start understanding yourself. Because you are life. You have to start freeing yourself from ideologies and dogma. There’s no other way to stay happy. I personally recommend you to grow in both aspects at once. Unless you live in poverty or are close it. If you have enough resources to at least sustain, then you should start to escape the matrix while growing inside of it. Do something otherwise, and you’ll stay miserable- Either with or without money. STAY BASED

New Post Coming Today! Topic: How chasing happiness, validation and social status can lead to motivation and actions

Morning Thought Don’t let any part of your day dictate how the other part goes. A terrible morning should not destroy your afternoon. Yet, let a good morning enrich your afternoon. Get rid of dependency. Use everything to your benefit. Have a Based Day

THREAD EARLY ACCESS Thread Topic: 10 Life Principles to break your self-destructive patterns and lead a better life To be released on Twitter after 24 hours Extended version will be posted Exclusively Here! https://telegra.ph/10-Life-Principles-to-break-self-destructive-patterns-and-lead-a-better-life-02-24

A life lesson for everyone. No one is ever busy. You are just not in their priority list. Everyone has time for people whom they care about. I know people for whom I am always busy to have an interaction. I know people who can call me anytime to have a talk. If you are being ignored by someone, do not lose your self respect by waiting for an eternity, do not be their last priority while they enjoy in their life with their loved ones. Value yourself and be around people who want to be around you.

Modern World Distractions The modern world is fucked. It runs on narratives. It’s made to distract you from your path. Music is designed to make you soy. Movies are made to normalize weakness. News portrays religions, cultures and values as negatives. Social Media normalizes laziness. Government passes on blame for pollution from corporates to civilians. Porn takes control of your mind. Food destroys your health. Every small thing designed to take your attention away from your goal and focus on insignificant or destructive things. As long as you let them, they will always take you away from your goals. With time, the pain will only increase and the pleasure will only decrease (more on this in another post). Though if you decide now to take the right path and stay disciplined, everything can change. When I say this, I am not referring to petty productivity tricks. Productivity tricks only work for Productive people. If you are reading this right now, you are not productive, you are distracted. To bring back the focus and productivity, you have to get rid of all your distractions. To get rid of your distractions you have to adopt singular focus. You can work on changing your environment. Though as long your internal is disturbed, something external will always disturb you. Singular Focus towards: A. Your Curiosity B. Your Life Project Your Curiosity Find out at least 1 thing you are naturally curious about. It can around your mind, body, business, animals, history, philosophy, etc If you cannot find one, then form one. Experiment with different areas of knowledge. See what works for you. Then go in absolute depth around it. Day in and day out, learn about it. You shouldn’t have time and energy for anything else. All you should be doing is pursuing your curiosity until there’s nothing left to learn. Once there’s nothing left to learn, move on to something new. Don’t give yourself time to get distracted. Your Life Project Learning is not enough. You have to start taking action. Improve your mind, make it stronger. Work on your health. Work on your business/job. Make it your purpose to be the best at what you are doing. You don’t have to start as the best. You have to work towards it. If you aim shorter, you’ll get distracted. You won’t find it important to stay disciplined. Once you have a curiosity and a project to work upon, you will stop giving importance to petty distractions. You’ll start focusing solely on what takes you closer to your goal. BONUS Have someone/something life to give your learning/earnings to. There’s a joy in giving which you cannot experience through anything else. They joy will make you want to word harder. Take your family for dinner. Feed the street dogs. Share your knowledge. Anything that benefits others. You can do it while pursing your curiosity and building your life project, or after. The choice is yours. Summarizing, there are 3 important aspects: -Being excited towards something (curiosity) -Working towards something (Life Project) -Working for someone in addition to yourself These 3 shall drive you to work with absolute focus. Without getting distracted by Modern World distractions. STAY BASED

How to Never Quit Your Strong Habits Again Extension of the following Thread: https://twitter.com/Based_Realist/status/1496111034469388289 Before we begin, I want to make something clear. The points mentioned in the Thread are practical and self-experimented. Though they are not absolute, and thus need greater explanation. Something which cannot be done on Twitter. Hence, I am exclusively releasing this for the members of Based Zone Enjoy. Take Notes. Apply. 1. Atomic Habits / Needle Moving Tasks In the space of Habit Formation, atomic habits have recently been given intense importance. More than it truly deserves. As mentioned in the thread, they seem easy to perform. While in reality, they are easier to postpone. You can easily postpone small habits, for instance Meditation, from Morning, to Night, to tomorrow, to never. You will get stuck in the loop cause they don’t seem important enough. Thus, making it essential to make them feel important. Which brings us to the point of Instant Results. Do not focus on the benefits promoted by the society or “professionals”. Especially when it comes to atomic habits. 5 minutes of exercising is not going to change your life. 60 minutes of regular exercise will. But to get there you have to start small. To start small, you have to make it feel important. To make it feel important, you have to focus on Instant Results. For instance, Mental Toughness or Control over mind. For every time that you decide to practice a good habit, you are forcing your mind to do it. Until you reach 60 minutes of exercise, this has to be your goal- To take control over your mind. This also helps you in not getting stuck in the loop of Atomic Habits (wherein you constantly perform less and have a delusional sense of performing more). 2. Using Dopamine to stay consistent Dopamine is the most essential element when it comes to motivation. Without it you won’t have the will to act. You won’t even get your ass off your bed. Though, due to the distractions of the Modern World, you end up wasting your dopamine on activities like Netflix and Junk Food. The easiest way to take back control is to stay in the Present. Let me explain why and how. Your dopamine is often released due to imagination. Imagination of how it will feel to indulge in a bad habit. Even without actually indulging, you’ll be wasting a lot of your dopamine. By staying in the present, you get rid of the Imagination. You won’t have the urge to indulge in bad habits, cause imaginations don’t belong to the present. How to stay in Present? Through a process that I call Active Meditation. At every stage in your day, be focused on what you are doing right now. Not what you should have done. Eating food? Focus on your food. Shitting? Focus on Shitting. Exercising? Focus on exercising. Certain thoughts will pop up, and it’s okay. Note them down somewhere and go back to focusing on what you are doing. 3. Having a “WHY” Having a really strong reason and hunger to act, will destroy the need for any other trick and method. - Find out why you want to achieve anything that you want to achieve. - Moreover, find out what you truly want to achieve. - Take a step further, and increase the intensity of what you want to achieve to something that sounds un-achievable. - Write down how you will achieve it. Make everything so clear for you that you cannot think of doing anything else. You should not waste your energy doing anything else but working towards your Life's Project Become so passionate about your goals that you don’t need atomic habits. You should be willing to experience the pain NOW to avoid compounded pain in the future. This alone is all that you truly need. Every other step can be used, but without Hunger and a Strong Reason to act, you will quit one day. STAY BASED

THREAD EARLY ACCESS Thread Topic: 7 Ways to make sure you never quit your Strong Habits again To be released on Twitter after 24 hours Extended version will be posted Exclusively Here! https://telegra.ph/7-Ways-to-make-sure-you-never-quit-your-Strong-Habits-again-Bonus-step-at-the-end-02-21

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Weekly Recommendations Week 1 Theme: 7x7x7 -7 Videos -7 Categories -7 minutes each 1. Spirituality https://youtu.be/Xjx-lcixiZw 2. Motivation/Mindset https://youtu.be/bUzhJvlELU4 3. Role of Gratitude in High Performance https://youtu.be/_w3YcQBWc3w 4. Avoiding companies of fool https://youtu.be/1JbFZnPMldM 5. Focus vs Attention https://youtu.be/uLCsX_aVZRg 6. Thoughts vs Awareness https://youtu.be/9rQB6qNqLuI 7. The Upsides of Mental Breakdowns https://youtu.be/cqsE5GpyLdg Next Week: Top 7 Podcast Episodes STAY BASED

//Generating Emotions// The technique that has the highest effect on you, is “Emotion Generation” Sadly, it cannot be taught in mere words. All I can do is help you understand what the process means. In simple terms, you force your heart to produce the right emotions. You let love and happiness come out of every corner of your heart. Love towards what? you may ask Towards life my friend. Towards the beauty of life. Loving life does not make you weak. It gives you strength to devote yourself towards your life's project. Similar to love towards your nation that makes you ready to fight for it. In reality, the process is not too difficult. All it requires is your presence in the Present Moment. All my content will be driven towards bringing you closer to “Emotion Generation” For now, I highly suggest you to: A. Question the narrative of normalizing misery B. Start practising better habits. Here’s a great tool to make Habit Formation easier and fun: https://habitica.com/ Thank you for reading! STAY BASED 2/2

1st Step Towards Losing Control Over Your Mind At any given moment, at any given place, with any given human, I have always observed a common problem of Justifications. For every problem people fail to solve. For every habit people fail to leave. For every belief people fail to drop. They always have a justification. A justification created by their mind. As if they have lost complete control over it. Sadly, I am not different from anyone of those. I am still fighting against my own justifications. All I am are steps ahead. Though I decided to take a step back and I thought: “When did we start losing control over our mind?” We often think it’s the first time we got into bad habits. If you go deeper, it can be the 1st time you accepted any belief without questioning or experiencing. When you go further deep, you realize it’s your emotions that you allow the external to control. Whether you feel happy, angry, in love, or anything else. You are completely dependent on the external. You have given away the power over your emotions. You have allowed a fool to make you angry. You have allowed someone of the opposite sex to control your feeling of love. While in reality, all these feelings are created inside of you. Something you should have absolute control over. Now, don’t confuse this with absolute detachment from material life. You are still allowed to live an adventurous and lavished lifestyle. What you are not allowed is to be absolutely dependent on them for making you feel good. They are necessities, or often luxuries, that play their roles in life. Don’t let them do anything outside their role. You should be the one controlling yourself. You should be the one who can generate happiness and love from within. Does this mean you should forever be bursting with laughter? No, you would probably become a Mad Man. Though you can still stay at peace. After all, happiness is not all about laughing. It’s about being at peace and yet pursuing novel experiences. During your lifetime, you will never be able to seize absolute control over your environment. Something will always go wrong. Even then, you decide how you feel. I repeat, YOU DECIDE HOW YOU FEEL Unfortunately, people nowadays decide to stay unhappy. Doing so makes them feel busy (due to excess of emotions and thoughts around those emotions). Thus, giving them an excuse to not do what’s necessary. With time, this feeling of misery has turned into a narrative. Through validation, it has been completely normalized. While misery might truly exist, yet turning it into a narrative only worsens the situation. It makes it easier for you to stay miserable and lose control over your mind. Now, comes the most important part: “How do you control your feelings and stay blissful” There are 3 major parts to it //Habits and Lifestyle// Your habits decide how you feel. Do you exercise? Do you walk? Do you journal? Do you practice affirmations? Do you eat healthy? Do you get quality sleep? They all have an impact on your feelings. Following right habits gives your greater control. In future posts, I’ll be talking more about them //Content Consumption// The content that you consume highly affect your feelings. The more self-deprecating content, and narratives you consume, the worse your condition becomes. You start to lose control over your mind and feelings. While the more mindful and positive content you consume, the more control you gain. Your feelings turn from miserable to happiness. 1/2

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