And don't even attempt to deny it.

Some are quite useful to have, like remembering to clean your teeth twice a day. There are others, however, that we should pay a little bit more attention to. Take for example driving your car, if you've ever gotten to the end of the road and wondered how on earth you got there.

Do you remember the first time you ever sat behind the steering wheel of the car you were learning to drive in? Do you remember the instructor telling you what you needed to do - at the same time, and you had a moment of panic that said, I am never going to remember how to do all that, and stay sane. Do you find it hard to remember a time BC - Before Car. Of course not, we practice long enough and hard enough, and sooner or later, we forget there was a time when we couldn't do it. Reading is another one that springs to mind. I can't remember the exact moment that signalled to me that I could now "read" whereas yesterday I was still learning.

Habits do that.

The reason why we become habitual in our behviour is because our non-conscious parts of our brains catch on very quickly to the stimulus of the conscious part of our thought processes. Think about something long enough and hard enough and your non-conscious part of your brain will do everything in its power to ensure that you get it.

Which is why our non-conscious brains can sometimes hinder rather than help us.

You tell yourself that tomorrow you are going to start the new diet. Unfortunately the non-conscious part of the brain starts to chatter. "Oh no, we're going to be hungry - all the time, I can't live on boring salads, and besides it's so and so's birthday on Friday and you know there's going to be cake...so why don't you start next week".

And because you have always given in to the endless chatter, you succumb to the cake, the extra portion of pie and chips for dinner, and before you know it, the non-conscious part of your brain is off to find the next target of your conscious brain.

So how do you ensure that your non-conscious part of your brain actually works for you, rather than against you as you break the procrastination habit.

Well you can sneak up on it and bash it over the head with a large blunt instrument, or you can re-train your conscious thoughts to only give you what you want, and not what you don't.

It sounds like a cliche - but the more you think about something, the more you will find it appearing in your life - Our thoughts become our behaviours, our behaviours become our habits.