My Top 10 Tips to Stop Procrastinating (That Actually Work)

You’re not lazy or undisciplined. You just don’t know these secrets — yet.

Dan Silvestre
11 min readNov 3, 2023

Just one of my tips to stop procrastinating can help you beat the battle of procrastination once and for all.

Here’s a secret that once you know it, can change your life:

Action leads to motivation, not the other way around.

Once you start, you don’t need any extra motivation to do the job. It’s Newton’s first law at work:

“A body at rest will remain at rest, and a body in motion will remain in motion.”

Once you start — even doing a tiny action — it becomes easier to keep going. It’s all about building momentum.

That’s how you make progress on your goals, big or small. Make it a habit to keep the ball rolling.

So here’s the secret to overcoming procrastination:

Make it easier to get started — ridiculously simple.

Where do you find the most resistance? At the beginning of a task. But once you get started, it becomes easier.

To make it easier to get started, follow one of my top 10 tips to stop procrastinating.

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Dan Silvestre

Performance coach helping leaders get the right things done with less effort than anything they've tried before. Join 20k+ readers: newsletter.dansilvestre.com