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Increase Boring Valuable Make Job Potato Beat Procrastination

Front One way to beat procrastination is to increase how valuable that thing seems to you. One way to increase how valuable something is to you is to increase flow. How to do that?
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If the task you're avoiding is boring, try to make it more difficult, right up to the point where the difficulty level matches your current skill, and you achieve "flow."21


Examples:

The guys in Super Troopers did: they devised strange games and challenges to make their boring job passable. 
Myrtle Young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY3Lw_-bj5U
 made her boring job at a potato chip factory more interesting and challenging by looking for potato chips that resembled celebrities and pulling them off the conveyor belts.

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