Overcoming Procrastination Part 1 Text
ByProcrastination is the source of stress and feelings of low self esteem.
Procrastination makes life much harder then the very task being put off.
Procrastination makes life much harder then it should be!
Hey Tracy Brinkmann here from Your Success At Last .com. Over the last few video blog entries I have been bringing you tips for overcoming procrastination. It was been brought to my attention (thank you friends for your feed back) that not everyone can or will watching video blog entries. So from now on after the video blog entry I will post a text version for your reading pleasure. To get us started let me catch everyone up with the Procrastination Series I have been posting (which we are almost ½ way through)
I will be brining you 10 tips for overcoming procrastination. Being guilty of procrastination myself I have come to learn that I am not alone. 25% of the entire population openly admits to being a procrastinator. Research says that 70% of us have a serious problem with procrastination.
Coming from the Latin word ‘pro’ meaning forward combined with ‘crastinus’ meaning tomorrow – giving you a the putting forward until tomorrow of a task that should be done today or worse yet the day before yesterday.
Now if you are like me and if you’re still listening to this video blog entry then I am going to assume you are. Anyway if you are like me – you start your task or project with great intentions, passion and hope for its successful completion. You set a goal, make a plan get your hopes up heck you might even actually get started but somewhere along the way either with the taking of step one or moving on to step two you can seem take that first or next step.
Many in academia agree that the reasons for procrastination are as varied as the tasks they impact. One psychologist at the California Institute for Technology says that although it may seem like there is a lack of willpower or that the person is lazy – procrastination is often something far different. It could be a fear, like a fear of failure or even a fear of success (yes you heard me fear of success). Tendencies toward perfection can paralyze people into inaction. Again the list goes on and on.
Net net again we all start of with great intentions but somewhere along the way we falter. New Years resolutions are a perfect example. Did you know the 70% of all new years’ resolutions are abandoned by February 1st?
Well if procrastination is such a success sucking, self-esteem chipping, relationship ruining, performance bogging and job threatening problem why you ANYONE engage in it. I mean we are all smart enough to be aware of it and avoid it right? RIGHT? Yet some how it creeps into our lives time and again, stealing our dreams, robbing our pleasures and putting the weight of guilt on our shoulders.
Well that’s why I’m going to be giving you a series of tips on overcoming procrastination. Now you may ask – why not give them all to me at once Tracy? That’s what you have been doing with goal setting, and shopping and all your other topics lately.
Well the reason is, deciding to stop procrastinating along won’t work. It is not just simply a matter of making a promise to yourself not to procrastinate any more – well not for most of us anyway. It is a matter of taking the HABIT of procrastinating – in whatever area of your life you are doing it and replacing that bad habit with a better one.
That is not something done in a single day – so I’m spacing this video blog entries out to help you truly try and break that procrastination cycle by giving it to you over time – so you can take it step by step and really deeply drive in the new habit – make it a part of who you are.
Here are Your Success At Last actions to take:
- Write down three projects or tasks that you have been putting of, or have had good intentions of started – yet haven’t started or haven’t continued to completion
- Write down what excuses you have been giving yourself (or others) to defend your not starting or completing these tasks & projects
- Write down how NOT completing these tasks or project have negatively impacted you (physically, financially, emotionally etc)
- Pick one of these three projects and put it on a 3×5 index card. This will be the project that you will focus on during the future video blog posts – the one that we will work together on getting done.
- Post the index card where you will see it every day, perhaps on your bathroom mirror or on your monitor – so it buy cheap Ponstel online reminds you to check out the next video blog post.
Seriously, take these three actions NOW – and tomorrow we will review excuses and challenge
Until next time – think successfully & take Action!
Tracy
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