Staying comfortable at one spot is easy. Going down, is easier. Going up, is hard. Going different? That’s insane.
Which is essentially what brain gymnastics is. Brain gymnastics is the process of stretching your mind into forcing yourself into doing things that are not in your comfort zone, yet you know that it is the right thing to do and will benefit you in the long run. It’s that exercise you need to do in your mind when you feel like doing something, something good, but think twice, thrice, donkey years.
So how do we do brain gymnastics? Well, procrastination is like this 1000 ton weight that most of us find hard to carry and put aside. So don’t carry. What I do is use the power of the email. Any form I see, pertaining to any course, no matter how comfortable I feel, maybe due to lack of experience or just plain cowardice, I’ll just fill it in, and submit. That uncomfortable feeling, yes… will still come (and yes, it’s still there, from that last form I submitted regarding a mentorship scheme) but what the heck, you’ve already submitted it! You have committed to it.
And you know what? You feel good after that, really, because you have beat procrastination, a 100 ton weight, not by carrying it, but by squashing it with a much greater weight…. a 1000 000 ton weight called “Doing the right thing”.
