Instantaneous Personal Magnetism (IPM) is sweet! It's perfect for procrastination. It relies on your having a model (a person) who exhibits the behavior that you want to introduce into your life.
Here's how it worked for me. I procrastinated on college projects. I worked in a group project and one guy was in ROTC. He encouraged us to finish our pieces of the project early and quickly. His motto was something like “we are here now; let’s get it finished now while we have all of these assets readily available.”
I did IPM with this guy as my model. It worked the very next day. I said the same thing to myself, and I was eager to get the project finished. This mode of thinking was effortless, and it knocked my socks off the first time I noticed myself thinking & acting this way.
I graduated from college almost 12 years ago. My memory of the guy in ROTC is what I used as my model. That’s the neat part. You can create a fictitious and believable model of a behavior that you want in your life. You may need to spend extra time going over the details, and it will still work as well as if you had met a real person who exhibits the behavior.
Best wishes,
Eric
