How to Stop Procrastinating: a simple Guide to Mastering Difficult Tasks and Breaking the Procrastination Habit

Action #7: Prioritize Your Important Values
This is an important step, yet it’s perhaps the most difficult step in the
process. In order to pick out your top values, visualize a situation where
you would have to choose between two values. For example, if you

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compare your core values of philanthropy and belongingness, ask this
question: What if you had to decide whether to move to a foreign country
to do valuable aid work or remain in your hometown and volunteer and
do local charity work? Go through your list of values with this in mind to
home in on your core values.
Repeat this process until you’ve identified the values that directly relate
to the potential projects. Once you have these in mind, you’ll make more
effective decisions about the five core projects that you’ll select.