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How to Overpower Procrastination with Purpose

Does this sound like something you can relate to? You’ve got a project you really need to be working on. Maybe it’s filing six months of paperwork. Or learning how to use that new software you downloaded. It’s necessary but boring. Not surprisingly, you manage to find other things to occupy your time.

This next situation is even trickier. The project is important but you’ve got feelings about it. And not happy feelings.

Your Brain on Purpose

Here’s an interesting fact: At least 11 million bits of information enter our brain through our senses each second. Our conscious mind, however, only seems able to process 50 bits of information per second. Most of what enters our brain happens outside our awareness. Rock and Schwartz note that in a world with so many distractions, a big challenge is our ability to focus sufficient attention on any one idea.