Procrastination

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Permalink Reply by Celeste Cole on December 25, 2009 at 10:40pm

Hi, Richard. What a nice surprise ... thank you for doing this for everyone. I'll let you know my results after listening to it a few times. Merry Christmas to you and yours :)

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Permalink Reply by Fable Goodman on December 26, 2009 at 1:52am

That's exactly what I need right now.

I'll get round to downloading it later,
and eventually put it onto my mp3 player,
so that I can listen to it in bed sometime.

I'd rather listen to a recording on procrastination
than wash the dishes any day.


I hope you are still recovering well,

Take care lovely man,

LOve and hugs,

Fable

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Permalink Reply by Connor Wyatt on December 26, 2009 at 5:23am

Haha Fable I like it. :)

Conca

Fable Goodman said:

That's exactly what I need right now.

I'll get round to downloading it later,
and eventually put it onto my mp3 player,
so that I can listen to it in bed sometime.

I'd rather listen to a recording on procrastination
than wash the dishes any day.


I hope you are still recovering well,

Take care lovely man,

LOve and hugs,

Fable

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on December 26, 2009 at 6:31am

Thanks - Richard,

I keep meaning to download it, but... =^..^=

I am going to download it right now - Thanks again.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on December 26, 2009 at 6:42am

Fable,

One of my spiritual teachers the one and only Swami Beyondananda developed a 10 second cure for procrastination- that simply involved prescribing the symptom -- I know "cure" is a no-no word, but if applied this technique is just about fool proof--

The next time you have a impluse to procrastinate - Put it off and wash those dishes - So you can enjoy the pleasures and satisfactions that are unique to having a clean sink--

L&H

Michael E.

Fable Goodman said:

That's exactly what I need right now.
I'll get round to downloading it later, and eventually put it onto my mp3 player,
so that I can listen to it in bed sometime.

I'd rather listen to a recording on procrastination
than wash the dishes any day.


I hope you are still recovering well,

Take care lovely man,

LOve and hugs,

Fable

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Permalink Reply by Fable Goodman on December 26, 2009 at 7:43am

Not bloody likely, at least not this year.

I am working on a plan
to get nenowned hypnotherapists
from around the world to visit,
and wash/tidy up for me.
for this plan to work at all,
it is imperative that I leave the dishes dirty.

I would refer you to this Charming tale
from my blog post last december

My friend (let's call him 'Wizard Wonka' ),
is always looking for the easy way to do things:

One bright sunny, but cold morning in December,
Wizard Wonka went into his kitchen to find a big bowlful of washing up
he’d forgotten to do the night before.
He'd felt tired after a rather long late night session
on 'wizardthoughts.com' (the free online wizards community),
and had gone to bed without doing his chores.

Oh, well – he’d soon deal with the dishes.
“Abra-Cadabra!” he said,
expecting all the cups and saucers and plates
to leap clean and dry on to the kitchen table.
But they didn’t! They stayed put in the sink.
Wonka frowned.
This time he looked at the potatoes
which needed peeling for his lunch
and he tried another magic word.
“Honey-Howatsa!” he cried,
waving his hands in an impresive mystical fashion...
“Potatoes be peeled.”

But they didn’t move either.
There they stayed,
dark and brown,
completely unpeeled.

The wizard was quite upset.
He’d always been such a clever wizard,
and his magic had never let him down before.

He wished he could talk with his wizard friends ,
but none were online and they all lived such a long way off.

Wizards Gary, Joey, Phoenix,
and the enchantresses Melissa and Trish,
all lived several miles away.
And the Grand wizards Michael, Richard, Scott,
Sophie-Rose, Glen, and Leo the ‘Fresh Prince of Trance’,
all lived overseas,
and even powerful wizards need a really good reason to cross water.

Now if Wonka’s magic had been working,
he could have said
“I wish to be at Enchantress Melissa’s door!”
And he would have been there.
Or even
“I wish all my wizard friends were here.”

But it was no use trying that at the moment,
so he went for a walk in the park instead,
hoping that the fresh air and exercise would make him feel better.

Wizard Wonka was just walking underneath a tree,
when he heard a voice from thin air.


“Hello Wizard Wonka you do look down in the dumps.”

Wizard Wonka was quite startled
as he couldn’t see where the voice was coming from.
Then looking up, Wonka saw little Bobby Brown, peering down from the tree.

“What’s wrong ?”
asked Bobby climbing down and landing at Wonka’s feet.
Bobby was a friendly little boy,
and Wonka was glad to have someone to tell his troubles to.

“My Magic’s gone, Bobby,” he said
"I'm in a funk. I can’t work any spells at all.”

“That’s only because you think you can’t.”
Bobby wagged a finger at him.
“I didn’t think I could climb that tree just now,
but then I remembered that my mum said
you can do anything you like,
if you really put your mind to it.
So up I went, and climbed it jolly well.
Could you climb that tree Wonka?”

“No I couldn’t .” He said, shaking his head.

“Well I bet you could.” said Bobby.
“Come on, I’ll show you how.”
So under Bobby's guidance, the wizard began to climb .
Soon Wizard Wonka was leaning out of the tree smiling,
his tall hat knocked sideways.
“I did it!” He Beamed.

“Of course you did, “ said Bobby.
“Now come down and try riding my bike.”

“Oh I can’t do that, “ said Wonka and he got on it and promptly fell off.

“Yes you can, come on, have another go.”
Bobby held the bike and steadied him,
walking alongside as Wonka pedalled.
Suddenly Wonka was off, all round the park,
thoroughly enjoying himself.
When he got back, Bobby said,
"I bet you can’t kick my ball as far as I can.”

I jolly well can said the wizard,
who was growing more and more confident by the minute.

So they both took turns kicking the ball,
and Wonka’s kick was even better than Bobby's.
“You’re all right now, Wizard Wonka", said Bobby.
“You’ve got your confidence back.”

“I do believe you are right.” agreed the wizard.
“Thank you very much Bobby.”
Then off he went home with a spring in his step,
to see to the jobs in the kitchen.
As he got inside the front door,
he called out “Abra-Cadabra, I wish the washing up done.”

He skipped into the kitchen and was delighted
to see a pile of clean dry cups and plates and saucers on the table.





At the far end of the kitchen preparing lunch, were all of his wizard friends.



“I think you made a wish to see us,“ said Melissa the Enchantress.
“So we came, and I did your washing up while I was waiting for you coming back.”

“That’s really magic!” said Wonka.
And all the wizards had a good old laugh about that!

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Permalink Reply by Richard Nongard - NLPBoard.com on December 26, 2009 at 8:48am

OMG Fable!

Here is a tip: Get rid of half your dishes. Donate them. Then you will force yourself to do dishes more often, because you will be out of dishes.

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Permalink Reply by Kelley Woods on December 26, 2009 at 9:09am

Hey Richard,
Thanks! I'm going to listen to it instead of cleaning the dirty dishes in my sink! Thank you, Fable for that idea.

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Permalink Reply by Doreen Cohanim C.Ht on December 26, 2009 at 9:46am

LOL... LOL... FABLE, I better Not take a picture of my bedroom LOL
Just to let you know, David Hills helped me to organized it a little, then Thursday I Invited my niece to do closet shopping, she kinda took bunch of the clothing that no longer fit me, but guess what, she really organized my room and my closet, so now I have less to clean, the trick is to keep it organized, so Richard, I thank you for your Gift, I loved it, It really helped me understand why I am procrastinating, will let you how the affect was on me.
By the way when you offered the warmth wave and heaviness in my feet and hand, I felt the opposite... I also loved your story, It was beautiful, I could actually smell the flowers :)

I also use setting goals when I teach clients to over come their procrastinations, but the strange thing is that it helps them and. I am still struggling, so maybe now It's time to end my procrastination.

Thanks again, Doreen Cohanim C.Ht

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Permalink Reply by James Hazlerig on December 26, 2009 at 9:59am

I love helping people stop procrastinating. In fact, I considered making that my specialty and really marketing to procrastinators.

And then I saw the inherent flaw in that business plan. :-)

Happy New Year everyone,

James

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on December 26, 2009 at 2:41pm

James,

Follow your heart.

Big Pharma got a lot of play out of reframing "depression" from a character flaw to a "Chemical" imbalance.

You might consider modeling their huge success and developing a new plan for helping those Procrastinators -

Procrastinators --It's Not Your Fault!
Procrastination is a learned behavior, not a character flaw - Hypnosis can Help!

Michael E.



Double, Happy New Year everyone...

James Hazlerig said:

I love helping people stop procrastinating. In fact, I considered making that my specialty and really marketing to procrastinators.

And then I saw the inherent flaw in that business plan. :-)

Happy New Year everyone,

James

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Permalink Reply by James Hazlerig on December 26, 2009 at 4:48pm

I think the biggest problem with specializing in procrastination is that people who need my help won't get around to making an appointment. :-0

James

Michael Ellner said:

James,

Follow your heart.

Big Pharma got a lot of play out of reframing "depression" from a character flaw to a "Chemical" imbalance.

You might consider modeling their huge success and developing a new plan for helping those Procrastinators -

Procrastinators --It's Not Your Fault!
Procrastination is a learned behavior, not a character flaw - Hypnosis can Help!

Michael E.



Double, Happy New Year everyone...

James Hazlerig said:

I love helping people stop procrastinating. In fact, I considered making that my specialty and really marketing to procrastinators.

And then I saw the inherent flaw in that business plan. :-)

Happy New Year everyone,

James

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