Crush procrastination and take control of your life!
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Free Pre-Challenge Resources
These free tools and workshops will help you get even more out of the 21 Day experience!
Welcome to 21 Days to Crush Procrastination
Welcome to this challenge! Here's how this journey will unfold...
90 Heroic Minutes Protocol
This lesson will teach you the most effective method I have found to get important work done effectively. Get more important work done in 90 minutes than most do in an entire week!
The Distraction Log
Learn how this simple tool can make you aware of this distraction problem, and tame it for good.
The ikario community
Join the ikario community. Share your wins and struggles with a group of people who have your back!
The Challenge
This is your guided journey through the 21 Days to Crush Procrastination experience.
Day 0: Implementation Intention
We're starting off with a simple but powerful, evidence-based exercise. This exercise helps you prep for the 21 days to come.
Day 1: The Thing
Procrastination is doing something else instead of "doing the thing". You know, the thing you were supposed to be doing. Today, we define "the thing".
Day 2: A Taste of Freedom
Today is an experiment that brings a new perspective on one of the most common sources for distraction and procrastination.
Day 3: Deeper Awareness
This challenge is about gaining a deeper awareness of our own procrastination behavior and its roots.
Day 4: Forgiveness
Today, we're implementing the surpising findings from a study on the effect of self-forgiveness on procrastination.
Day 5: Break it Down
Whenever a task feels overwhelming and you feel resistance to getting started, do this.
Day 6: Urge Surfing
The better you are at surfing the urge, the more freedom of choice you have in your life...
Day 7: The 10 Minute Rule
Today, we're going to implement a simple but powerful rule...
Day 8: Music
Today's challenge looks deceptively simple, but don't underestimate it!
Day 9: Fear vs. Regret
This is an exercise to uncover some irrational parts of our minds, that lead to procrastination.
Day 10: Break it Down, Part 2
We've looked at starting rituals, now let's discover another way in which "breaking it down" can help beat procrastination.
Day 11: A Deep Conversation
One of the greatest ways to spend deeply focused, fully engaged time...
Day 12: Catch it in the Moment
This challenge will raise your awareness and bring you from unconscious reaction to deliberate action.
Day 13: A Walk in Nature
A simple challenge that may be more profound than it first seems.
Day 14: The Ultimate Anti-FOMO Experience
If you often feel like you just don't have enough time, today's challenge will give you an entirely new perspective.
Day 15: Track Everything
Today, we're doing a time tracking and single tasking experiment that I discovered by accident years ago - with surprising results!
Day 16: 5 Days of Freedom
It's time to give your mind a well deserved vacation...
Day 17: A Mindful Meal
Today's challenge is a delicious awareness exercise...
Day 18: The Time Hop
Today, we're doing some more "anti-temporal-discounting" practice.
Day 19: The 2 Minute Rule
The 2 minute rule is as simple as it is short. Today, you'll be practicing it.
Day 20: The Toolset
Over these last 3 weeks, you've acquired a whole set of new tools. Today, you put them to use.
Day 21: Reflection
To close off this challenge, this final exercise helps you solidify what you learnt and form and reflect on your experience in the most constructive way possible.
Bonus Content
Here, we take a deeper dive into some of the aspects behind the challenges & answer your questions.
Self Forgiveness: Why it Works & How to Do It
The Day 4 challenge is about forgiving oneself. As it turns out, this is something many people struggle with.
Procrastination, Life Quality & The Attention Economy
Until you understand the basic mechanisms of the attention economy, a lot of your own behavior will remain a mystery to you...
Hard vs. Soft Approaches to Overcoming Procrastination
On the pros and cons of living with a drill sargeant in your head...
How to Keep Crushing it After the Challenge is Over
You've done the 21 days and now you want to keep being a non-procrastinator: here's more on how to best do that.
About the Teacher
Shane Melaugh
Shane is a serial entrepreneur with a long-standing obsession for personal development and life optimization. He has a habit of buying more books than he can ever read. During his childhood his worldview was significantly influenced by Jackie Chan movies, the Vorkosigan Saga and the writings of Miyamoto Musashi.