Chapter 59: Do it now!
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
Pablo Picasso
Listen to Dr. Wayne W. Dyer when he says “Go for it now. The future is
promised to no one.” That unwritten e-mail, the old friend you want to reconnect
with, the time you want to spend with your family: don’t put it off any more. Do
yourself a favor and stop the procrastination. It only causes anxiety! And most of
the time you will find that things that you procrastinated for days causing you
anxiety and a bad conscience are actually done in an hour or so and afterwards
you feel so much lighter because you can forget about it.
Procrastinating is avoiding something that should be done. It’s putting things off
hoping that they magically get better without actually doing anything about
them. But things don’t get better on their own. Most of the time, the cause of
procrastination is some kind of fear. Fear of rejection, fear of failure, even fear
of success. Another cause is feeling overwhelmed. We procrastinate in three
different ways: 1) Doing nothing instead of what we are supposed to do.
2) Doing something less important than what we should be doing.
3) Doing something more important that what we are supposed to do.
As a freelancer and owner of his time, my client Marc struggled with
procrastination a lot. It caused him a lot of anxiety and even cost him some
sleepless nights. It was always the same pattern. He procrastinated and felt
burdened and anxious. In our coaching sessions he admitted that some of the
stuff that causes this anxiety, he could actually finish in one hour! He became
aware that he was paying a high price for procrastinating, and in the future when
tempted to procrastinate he decided to ask himself: what price will I be paying
for procrastinating this task? Is it worth it to be burdened by and lose my sleep
over a task that I could have finished in one or two hours? So do whatever it is
that you have on your mind right now.
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