What should you do/to keep this from happening?
First,/you must make it through the Critical Entrance.
This means stopping whatever you’re doing/when it’s time to begin the task.
You put away all distractions and get started.
This is the hardest part,/because this is where the monkey puts up his fiercest resistance.
He absolutely hates stopping something fun/to start something hard.
You need to be the strongest.
If you can get started/and force the monkey into the Dark Woods,/you’ve broken a bit of his will.
The Dark Woods is where you’re working. It’s not a fun place to be,/and the monkey wants nothing to do with it. To make things harder,/the Dark Woods is surrounded by the Dark Playground. And the monkey will try as hard as he can/to leave the Dark Woods.
If you can power through a bit of the Dark Woods,/something funny happens. Making progress on a task/produces positive feelings of accomplishment/and raises your self-esteem. When you feel a jolt of self-satisfaction,/the monkey finds a High Self-Esteem Banana in his path. It doesn’t suppress his resistance entirely,/but it goes a long way toward distracting him/for a while;/you’ll find that the urge to procrastinate has diminished. If you continue along,/something magical happens. Once you get two-thirds of the way through a task,/you start to feel great about things/and suddenly, the end is in sight. This is the Tipping Point.
The Dark Woods is where you’re working. It’s not a fun place to be,/and the monkey wants nothing to do with it. To make things harder,/the Dark Woods is surrounded by the Dark Playground. And the monkey will try as hard as he can/to leave the Dark Woods.
If you can power through a bit of the Dark Woods,/something funny happens. Making progress on a task/produces positive feelings of accomplishment/and raises your self-esteem. When you feel a jolt of self-satisfaction,/the monkey finds a High Self-Esteem Banana in his path. It doesn’t suppress his resistance entirely,/but it goes a long way toward distracting him/for a while;/you’ll find that the urge to procrastinate has diminished. If you continue along,/something magical happens. Once you get two-thirds of the way through a task,/you start to feel great about things/and suddenly, the end is in sight. This is the Tipping Point.