#4 distraction free environment.....No more ATOT?
Screw that.
I think the #1 reason I procrastinate is that I'm lazy.
I don't think so much a distraction-free environment, as much as an environment structured to make it easier to achieve your goal than not. Like, I carry a huge lunchbox around with me every day. It has all of my meals ready to eat inside. I eat every few hours. This makes it much easier to follow my dietary goals because I can cave to healthy food instead of junk food. You'll never really get a distraction-free environment...like with food, someone always brings in donuts and stuff to work, or birthday cake, or whatever, which is fine if fits in your diet, but you can also stack the odds in your favor if it's not.
I think laziness has something to do with it, but I think that laziness is mostly just being a little bit too tired to try on a consistent daily basis. When you feel good, everything is easy. Plus, being committed to an awesome goal with a step-by-step plan is
highly motivating, so if you've got a strong goal & energy, it's not too hard to eat well, do a daily workout, etc. because you know what you want, you know how to get it, and you feel good enough that it's not a mental stumbling block. It kind of sounds like a bunch of BS when I read all that stuff I just wrote, but if you take it seriously...I mean, if you ask a random person who wants to lose some weight & get in shape what they've done:
1. Do you have a specific goal?
2. Do you have a step-by-step plan to achieve that goal?
3. Have you committed yourself to that goal?
4. Are you going to bed at a reasonable hour?
5. Are you getting sufficient hours of sleep?
6. Are you eating healthy foods every day?
7. Are you following a daily exercise routine?
I don't think that's laziness...it's simply a series of choices:
1. Making the choice of what goal you want
2. Making the choice of which plan to follow
3. Making the choice to commit yourself to the goal & plan
4. Making the choice to manage your bedtime & how many hours you sleep so you aren't too tired to fight the battle every day
5. Making the choice to buy or prepare healthy meals & have them on-hand so you don't cave to junk food
6. Making the choice to do your workout today
I mean, when you break it down, it's lifting a fork, doing a pushup, and going to sleep. None of those are very hard things to do individually, which is how you get things done over time - small, simple things every day. I can eat chicken just as easily as a candy bar. I can go to sleep just as easily at 9:30pm as I can at midnight. So I don't think it's laziness, as much as just being uncommitted & being a little bit too tired, which makes it easy to push it off to tomorrow. If you commit to something & manage your energy so you feel good, it's pretty easy to stay motivated imo.
I used to read stuff like those motivational quotes & get a nice, short-term motivated feeling and maybe go do one or two things & feel excited about it, but that fades within like, a day, if not hours, as soon as you get distracted by something else or feel tired or it gets too hard. I think there are 3 things that contribute to productivity:
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