Cure for Procrastination(digital age crack cocain)?

[Parsifal]

I know that all to well.
My current stack with NewEmperor and GMogul helped a bit.
Every now and then I find the time and quiet to reflect why I’m not doing what I actually wanna do.
Then I start Journaling. I write about what I should do, what emotions are linked to that. What are potential fears, what would be the outcome of those fears etc.

This is what I wrotenin my journal last week

@Parsifal

I was just sitting at my desk wanting to call potential employers, but nothing. Distraction and rigidity.
Then I took my journal and reflected on what was holding me back. The result was ridiculously mundane, but profound at the same time.

@Parsifal

I procrastinated on this because a part of me feared the possibility of rejection.
The fear was a 10/10.
I made myself repeat the realization from last week: If I get rejected, it doesn’t matter if I call or not. The only difference is that I know his answer and can plan accordingly.
So I made a few pain cloud meditations to reduce the fear to 2/10 and called.

It only happened two times yet, but it’s working.

I get adds for some apps against procrastination for a few months now. They say “procrastination is not laziness, it’s a response to a trauma”.
I can’t definitely confirm that, but everytime I was able to journal, I realized that there were fears underneath the procrastination.

[Dantes]

Tbh just delete youtube and block it out entirely

Go to the gym and meditate

Lastly, stop running healing subs or spiritual subs, run something like Emperor or Khan or Stark. Limitless Executive is a must.

[Akephalos]

Not about mainstream media but even good sources and interviews, reading the full history and all the cultural,ethnic, religious nuances, UN law, statistics, leaked files,how foreign countries influenced and shaped the the conflict, diplomacy with neighbours etc… Drags u down in a rabbit whole of information to understand all nuances and their interconnectedness but all takes time, energy and wellbeing.

[Akephalos]

Gotta milk dr4 since i ran it for a year previous stages and now main changes are kicking in but yeah should add executive immediately.

Wanted khan black in a month or two.

[Dantes]

With all that intuitive energy and focus bro… You have the power to focus and be obsessed.

If you find the right skillsets to learn, you could be ultra successful

So just direct your focus to business or a skillset dude

[Dantes]

Eliminate distractions, thats it lmao

No more news for you. Just stop it. Its not moving you forward in life and it’s taking away from your success dude.

Everytime u consume that shit your just getting farther and farther away from your successful reality.

Your wasting time.

[Akephalos]

Yeah i know i keep repeating it to myself but cant get the deeper mind to get it and embody it, executive might shift that

[Akephalos]

Okay i was about to get executive but then misclicked page and something caught my attention, as if by fate.
Emperor black twilight.
I seen this sub before on release but it didnt appeal at the time, now as i read the product page word by word, i knew everything resonated deeply and exactly perfect for my current intention and path.
It will tie in nicely with dr4 and recent washout from ros.
Maybe i should cut rich out since emperor black has financial benefit too and i want to mine out that inner true self and spiritual deepening.

[Prioritas]

I was gonna recommend Genesis as something in-line with Xavier’s rec of finding a business or skill to become obsessed with

But I think Emperor Black could lead you down the same path

[whatevermore]

Actually, the study showed that people who watched 6 or more hours daily (!) of news about the Boston marathon bombings reported more stress in an online survey 2-4 weeks after the incident.

Given that you have to be in a rather peculiar state to spend so much time watching TV about the incident, this doesn’t tell you much about causality. And the relevant comparison would be what would have happened to these obsessive watchers if they somehow didn’t have access to TV. But the study says nothing about that.

You can read the study here: Media’s role in broadcasting acute stress following the Boston Marathon bombings

[Fractal_Explorer]

Question. Did this appear before or after covid for you?

[Akephalos]

Before, i just kept finding ways to be busy with whatever and trying to justify it, the actions i need to take are very much in line with dr4 archetype and i been procrastinating on them with other stuff.

[Fractal_Explorer]

@Akephalos

But i cant get my self in aligment to do what im supposed and whats good for me. Feels like a massive wall of resistence as if i have to walk through hot coals, this has been going for months.

We could probably start here. What do you feel you’re supposed to be doing? Procrastinating is in my experience just avoiding uncomfortable emotions. If we didn’t have tech we’d probably go for a walk, throw rocks at other rocks, stare at the sky, etc. My point being it’s not the technology that’s the problem, it’s just human behavior.

[Akephalos]

The courses and exercises that would resolve all those blockages dr4 is trying to break, but those blockages are putting resistance to doing that, making a paradox.
Now after i made the thread and contemplated introducing another sub might give me the extra push to break it.

[Parsifal]

@Fractal_Explorer

If we didn’t have tech we’d probably go for a walk, throw rocks at other rocks, stare at the sky, etc. My point being it’s not the technology that’s the problem, it’s just human behavior.

Thanks for that. For me, it’s a absolutely new point of few. If we need procrastination to cope with something, we procrastinate. Using social media, news or just nature.
That’s a great insight!

[Akephalos]

My path is always partly spiritual even with material goals as even they translate and feed into spiritual growth, so running at least one spiritual sub is good for me.
My intuition was 100% on board with emperor black after reading it

[Skadoosh]

I will be honest, it sounds like you’re not living life. Your dopamine is fried, and you’re clinging to your comfort zone. You’re in a stagnant state. Too complacent.

You have to wake up immediately and activate your Eddie Morra. Start playing the game. Start living like you’re the main character in your own movie/video game. Start leveling up. Aspire to do amazing things, meet amazing people, create amazing moments. Pursue excellence and knock everything out of the fucking park. Succeed and celebrate. Fail and celebrate. That’s the beauty of it.

Reconnect yourself back to the magic of life. If you’re on the internet, soak in valuable knowledge from everywhere that elevates you. Take high ROI courses, learn skills, learn structures of things and use knowledge to elevate yourself. Follow your passions. Get in the gym, get active. Doesn’t have to be hardcore, just do some type of physical activity if you aren’t. Nothing wrong with learning Jamaican English if you’re passionate about that, that’s good. Set clear goals. Financial, physical, social, spiritual, etc, and go after them. Become multi faceted and develop universal skills like cooking for example. Stay ahead of everyone, get up to date on the latest technology - that’s useful news. Look around you, do you not see how fascinating everything is, from the largest scale to the smallest level. How humans live, how nature thrives, how creativity manifests down to the small need.

You have no idea how much of a crazy video game you’re in where possibility is limitless and you have the potential to see, do and experience so much. Instead you just waste months watching negative news programming, and procrastinating in a cycle. Stop. Go out in nature, get inspired. Embrace greatness. Greatness isn’t a status, it’s a way of living. It’s an experience of opening up to limitlessness and having the courage to explore it. It’s a door that you walk through, and never look back. Wake up, champ. Who is @Akephalos?

@Akephalos

I never had it as badly as now, when i was younger i was far more productive .

Good. In every story, the main character falls to his weakest point. He looses all hope, and meaning… all purpose. All sense of color, disconnected from what was. He becomes weak, reminiscing over the past.

Then he comes back stronger than he’s even been. Now is your chance to do that, in 2024.

The question is, do you have the courage to do that. And that’s where my hands are tied.

Good luck, lol.

[Fractal_Explorer]

@Akephalos

The courses and exercises that would resolve all those blockages dr4 is trying to break, but those blockages are putting resistance to doing that, making a paradox.

That’s a tall order to fulfill and a lot of expectation on yourself. Hypothetically if you ran through those courses and they didn’t give you what you needed how would that make you feel? Is it possible you’re procrastinating on them because deep down you’re worried they won’t help?

Something I’ve had to understand is there’s never just that one thing that fixes everything or is the solution. And the more importance you place on it the more pressure to succeed. What was a small building block to improving your life now turns into this massive fail or succeed scenario which generates anxiety which causes procrastinating.

[Fractal_Explorer]

Hot take, but I also believe heavy spiritual subs have to be paired with some kind of more physical/earthly subs to ground you. Unless you’re very grounded to begin with. Otherwise there’s a tendency to split off into higher concepts that can’t be practically applied into the actual experience of living life.

Example of that being the rabbit hole you went down dealing with ethics, human behavior, international foreign policy, etc. I will never discourage anyone from being informed, but you gotta take care of yourself first before you get into all that heady shit.

[Jouissance]

Fair enough! Thanks