35 Give up procrastinating
Nothing pulls the life out of you like worrying about something you have to do that you’d really rather not do, and by your 40s, you really need to learn to skip procrastinating in favor of something a little more realistic.
“The way to give up procrastination is to use postponement instead and be rigorously honest about your intentions,” Randi Gunther Ph.D. wrote in Psychology Today. “If you aren’t really going to do something until the last minute, and you’ve given up fooling yourself, just plan on doing it when you know you will. You can only do what is in front of you. Stirring up a major worry attack will not only get the job done, but take away from your enjoyment and competence in what you are doing in the moment.”
