Wellness Through Efficiency: Teaching Students How to Break the Cycle of Procrastination

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•Caveats: don’t agree with everything in these books; but there is something helpful to pull from each of them.
Overall Themes:
1. Discipline / focus
2. Physical body / the body keeps the score
3. Meditation
4. Take real breaks / self care
5. Kaizen / don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good
6. Procrastination / perfectionism (TedTalk Tim Urban)
7. 5-4-3-2-1
8. Be kind to yourself
9. Don’t multi-task
10. Buddy system for completing work
11. Write down your triggers / what’s stopping you from finishing something.
“Discipline is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control” by Ryan Holiday
• Self-discipline doesn’t deprive you. It grants you freedom.
• In much today’s world, people can do and access almost anything they want at the snap of a finger, and yet with all of this freedom, so many of us are so unhappy.
• The part of us that clings to excess and chaos vs. the part that seeks balance.
• Self-discipline involves working hard, practicing good habits, enduring challenges, setting boundaries, and turning a blind eye to temptations. In short, it’s about living a life guided by principles, moderation, and determination.
• Self-discipline isn’t about depriving yourself. In fact, it’s the opposite. It’s about using control to open up a world of opportunity.
• Stoicism isn’t about punishment. Seneca wrote “No philosophical school is kindlier and gentler.”
• Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett has shown that brain function depends on a body’s well-being. Sleep, hydrate, exercise.
• To achieve greatness, you have to align your body, mind, and spirit. Balance.
• Training yourself to focus. Beethoven would mentally disappear during a conversation to pursue a musical idea. In his raptus, or flow state, he was occupied with such a lovely, deep thought that he couldn’t bear to be disturbed. It takes extreme self-control to focus in a world where we’re constantly bombarded by distractions. So, selfish as it may sound, practice ignoring things. See what it feels like to really commit to following your inspiration or solving that difficult problem.