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

STEP #1: IDENTIFY YOUR CURRENT
COMMITMENTS
One challenge of modern living is that it’s easy to let your to-do list
snowball into numerous tasks, projects, and obligations. For some folks,
it’s impossible to complete every item on this list, which often causes that
stressful feeling of overwhelm. You might even reach the point where you
think it’s impossible to get out of the massive hole that you’ve dug for
yourself.
But don’t worry if that sounds like you.
If you make a commitment to follow the advice that I’ve outlined in 
How
to Stop Procrastinating
, then you’ll remove much of the anxiety and
stress that comes from having too many tasks on your to-do list. Plus,
you’ll learn how to build a solid framework that prevents you from
procrastinating on future activities.
To get started, I recommend a simple exercise that can take anywhere
from 30–60 minutes. In the same notebook that you used in the previous
exercise, write down 
all
your current commitments and any goals you’d
like to accomplish within the next year.
You can pick one of two options for completing this task:
1. The Getting Things Done (GTD) method.
2. How to Stop Procrastinating method.
Let me briefly go over each one.