01-29-2011, 12:26 PM
(01-28-2011, 05:03 PM)AwesomeYoungDude Wrote: [ -> ]Shannon, I've been thinking more and more regarding procrastination and the current and past responses on the forum. This is not an easy problem to address. The effects of the sub on me where just as your initial goal and that is that around the house I'm great, however I'm still struggling at work. I thought Ultimate Motivation and Carpe Diem! would improve on the base built by Overcome Procrastination but I found then still lacking. With some on AM10 indicating Procrastination is not a problem and others indicating it still is, I'm beginning to think that this is more than a single stage problem. There are so many things that contribute to the issue.
I think the goal of most is to get yourself to do something you currently do not want to do and persist until its completed. But the resistance may come from multiple layers. There can be mental, physical, social, learned and unlearned habits, environmental, a head trauma, learning difficult, ADD/ADHD, Rx, age, gender, skills all could be working against you.
As I look through the forum I see female attraction as a dominant request, however, I also see a desire spoken or unspoken to address the need to "get their selfs to start, persists, and complete the thing being procrastinated".
The concern I have is that someone buys Overcome Procrastination and determines the subs do not work. A multi stage sets the expectation that this is not a quick fix. It also allows for normalizing and cleaning, which I now see to be of extreme importance. Is this already covered with life tune up?
What are your thoughts.
You're right, procrastination is a difficult one to overcome - in some cases. But, I am not sure a six stage set for it is the answer. While six stages allows me to address issues that are much more complex, and do so more thoroughly, procrastination is a fairly simple problem in and of itself: a person is resisting doing something they don't want to do.
In other words, procrastination is almost nothing but resistance.
While I see various causes and reasons that could and do contribute, again, it boils down to simple resistance in most cases, and resistance is easy or difficult to overcome depending on the personality type, the reason for resistance and the resulting resistance type.
There are some improvements that I can see to make to that title, but ultimately, how well a subliminal works depends on the following:
- How well the subliminal is made.
- How well the subliminal is used.
- How much the subliminal is resisted.
We know my programs are made well. We know they're easy to use properly, and most people do. That leaves resistance - which is the root cause of procrastination.
Subliminals, no matter how well made and used, are not going to be 100% effective for 100% of the population because there are those types of people who resist in ways that subliminals cannot overcome very well. That's always been true, and that always will be true, as far as I can see. That's why one of my biggest frustrations so far has been how obese people respond to my weight loss program. Most of them either just resist it, or yo-yo back and forth and get nowhere. Some do,but most people who are obese, for the same reasons they have become obese, resist the program. (I am working on a solution, by the way.)
So... yes, I see ways to improve the procrastination program, but there are always going to be limits to what a subliminal can do. Just as with hypnosis, ultimately, you have to cooperate for it to work.
And, there will always be people who try subs, and who decide they don't work. A lot of people these days have the same skills at logical thinking that were in vogue in the middle and dark ages. I think this is because certain Powers That Be don't want too many people being able to think for themselves critically. How does one control a populace that can think for itself, and thus knowledgeably resist brainwashing and mass influence techniques? You know, like TV, radio, magazine advertising...
So there will always be people who try one sub, and maybe don't use it right, or don't get the result they wanted because they resist it, and then decide that "subliminals are all a bunch of hogwash", when in fact, they resisted the program, they didn't use it right, and their logic skills suck because they leapt to the conclusion that "all subliminals are false" because of their experience with one.
Unfortunately, that kind of thinking is rampant today. In the United States, at least. It's everywhere - never have we as a society more desperately needed lessons in critical, logical and creative thinking. But we started phasing those classes out a long time ago, and now they seem only to be given lip service in education because they take up credit hours. All through high school, I never got one class in how to think logically, critically or creatively, and in college, I only had one class, and it was only one credit. I had to teach myself and learn from my grandfather, who was a chemistry teacher.
I can definitely make the program better based on something you said in the post I am responding to, though.
