Procrastination - Good or Bad?

It's probably a good thing if you spend around 5% of your time procrastinating, or goofing off with Facebook or whatever. After all, all work and no play makes Jack a very dull boy.

Most people don't even realize they are procrastinating until half the day is gone before they even get started on tasks that are going to take them towards their goals.

What is procrastination?

Most would say its doing something of little or no importance, instead of doing whats important, ya-di-ya-da.

What procrastination really is, is a sign that something is wrong.

Now you will probably not be consciously aware of what it is that's wrong, It's probably something completely unrelated. Maybe an aunt berated you for being too loud, a primary school teacher embarrassing you in class or friends making fun of you, or worse.

Bottom line is that procrastination is a bad feeling, and you have resistance to doing the task, because you just don't want that bad feeling any more.

Instead of doing something about that bad feeling, we try to make it go away, put a lid on it, bury it, or distract ourselves with something else.

Worst case you try to numb the bad feeling with alcohol, food or drugs.

On a lesser scale, we might numb ourselves with hours of mindless TV, or a good book. Perhaps we'll have endless phone calls or meetings with friends, or get into an argument with our spouse.

Or we'll do what we think is harmless, surfing the net, reading the news, Facebooking, online chatting, etc. But is it harmless, or is it robbing you of time and energy that could be put to good use?

Next time you are procrastinating, just STOP, take a deep breath, and ask yourself, what am I feeling?

It's likely to be an unpleasant sensation in the solar plexus region, but it could be anywhere. It's probably an I'm scared, or an I'm afraid, type of feeling.

And it's nothing to be ashamed of, we all have it in one form or another.

One of the coaches here at Get Centred can assist you with eliminating this feeling.

To your success,
Trevor Long

Fasting

Fasting

We tend to see food as indispensable, and think without three meals a day we will die. This is far from the truth. It is a program we have picked up on the way. - Paul Blackburn

Some of the benefits of fasting:

• It's how our bodies are designed, to have periods of feast and famine, to eat irregularly as food was found, harvested or caught. We were never designed to have food available to us 24/7 for a lifetime.
• You'll have more energy available, because its not being used for digestion.
• Fasting has been used throughout history to heal, to cleanse, to purify the soul. Animals instinctively fast when unwell.
• It can increase energy, awareness and intuition.
• Fasting increases the bodies ability to eliminate toxins.
• You will lose weight (fat).
• When fasting, you can sense the body craving essential nutrients, which otherwise would be dulled by a full belly and colon.

Michael Mosley, in his book The Fast Diet, explains that when you sleep, after about 4 hours insulin production stops, and the body goes into repair and recovery mode, until the morning, when you break-fast.

There are many ways to diet, you can research it on the internet, or read the many books on the subject.

Michael Mosley advocates a very easy to follow 'fast'. Twice a week, on non consecutive days, eat only a quarter of your calories for that day. 600 calories for a man, 500 calories for a woman.

Wait as long as you can before you break-fast, then as long as you can again before your next meal. Drink as much water, black/herbal tea or black coffee as you like, to stave off cravings and keep hydrated.

After fasting for a few times, you'll be surprised how easy this becomes, and at the lack of cravings.

You might also be surprised by your energy levels, and your bowels that start working normally again after you have given them a rest.

This diet is easy, its simple, you don't have to buy special foods, attend meetings, get all sweaty. None of that. Just live your normal life, eating less on 2 days per week, knowing that you can eat what you want the next day.

You'll not only lose weight, get healthy, have more energy and live longer, you'll save money in the process.

You might even find that your cravings for crap processed foods (that are high in fat, sugar and carbs) are greatly reduced.

If you have any difficulty with this, a good coach or hypnotherapist can help you find the motivation, and provide craving busters to help you to your health goals easily and effortlessly.

Credits to Paul Blackburn & Michael Mosley

Trevor Long is a master coach and hypnotherapist who works with groups and individuals to achieve their health, wealth, relationship, vocational and lifestyle goals