by Christine Li | Jun 6, 2016 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Techniques
One of the key strategies I teach to help people improve their productivity and to fight their anxiety is this: SEPARATE YOUR FEELINGS FROM YOUR WORK AS BEST AS YOU CAN. This is not to say that we should not care about our work. It's that we should not care so much...
by Christine Li | May 23, 2016 | Actions, All Posts, Resistance, Techniques
What unresolved problems do you have in your life right now? How much distress are you under because of them? Let's find a way out and forward. Procrastinators tend to sit on piles of problems. Unfinished projects, undelivered mail, ideas unfulfilled. One way to...
by Christine Li | Apr 28, 2016 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Techniques
When I work with clients, I hear about a lot of fears. Those fears never scare me. You know why? Because I have no idea whether those fears will become real or not. Please remember me telling you “I have no idea” the next time you think of asking me about...
by Christine Li | Apr 22, 2016 | Actions, All Posts, Resistance, Techniques
My goal today is to be simple. Simple tends to get things done, I think. Procrastination operates by making things more complicated: Instead of dealing with just our present-moment tasks, we have to deal with the ones we are behind on too. Our minds become...
by Christine Li | Feb 26, 2016 | Actions, All Posts, Resistance, Techniques
The following post is brought to you by my new friend, Shaun Flanders of Zero to Habit. Shaun kindly reached out to me after I made a comment on someone else's site, and that sparked a great, mutually-supportive blogger relationship. I hope you'll take a moment to...
by Christine Li | Jan 22, 2016 | Actions, All Posts, Resistance, Techniques, Theories, Thoughts
“What a waste.” What kind of feelings did you just have reading the phrase “What a waste?” Did you feel guilty? Did you feel ashamed? Did the phrase sound really familiar? I grew up being pretty conscious of not wasting things, like food and...