General Beliefs vs Specific Beliefs

Hello, hope you're all well

I am now working on more specific beliefs that I want to remove. But it's a bit tricky.

The next thing I was going to work on was beliefs relating to women. But yesterday, I found myself procrastinating on doing so. I basically wasted my whole day, and tried not to beat myself up about it or get into a negative loop. I procrastinated a bit today as well, and feel pretty shit right now tbh. But I sat and said to myself "I can't just sit feeling sorry for myself and waiting for someone to help me. I need to at least do SOMETHING"

So I decided to target procrastination. But an interesting question came up...

Is procrastination caused by a general belief relating to you and your general goals, or could it be that procrastination is cause because you feel resistance towards doing something specific. Or both? and how do you tackle it?

For example, is it a belief that "I am a failure because I fail" or "I am a lazy piece of shit if I don't work" that causes you to procrastinate by avoiding the potential of getting those beliefs "Confirmed"

Or let's say you want to prepare a few lines you can use in conversation with women if you can't think of anything else for example. But you feel resistance towards that task because you know that if you prepare these lines, then down the line you'll eventually have to confront some limiting belief you have regarding women...it could be that you're undeserving of women/love/sex. So THAT causes you to procrastinate.

I hope that makes sense.

The reason I thought of it is because I often don't procrastinate going to the gym, unless I'm feeling shit about something else, like yesterday. But I can have days where I think "Fuck me, I have to do legs" but then I almost automatically find myself in the gym and then I might have a little thought "Shit, I really don't want to go through the routine, it seems so daunting", but I just start with the frist exercise without thinking too much. I often don't even have those thoughts and enjoy the exercises.

My point is, that if procrastination stemmed from a general belief...then why does it only affect certain parts of my life? I must believe that I deserve a good body, cause I have one and don't sabotage myself when working towards it.

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