Every Day You Procrastinate Is A Day Lost In Achieving Success

Procrastination is the number one stumbling block to achieving your dreams and your goals. Procrastination is the ball and chain that will always be with you until you make the decision to push through the pain associated with change. I believe that procrastination exists because there is the fear of rejection or fear of failure associated with the task or goal before you. Yes procrastination can appear in the things we hate to do but it still relates back to pain. In an earlier article "Achieve Success By Changing The Daily Have To Things Into Choose To Things" I discussed the theory about the mindset and why you should take this approach. Lets imagine you have bought into the idea of Choose To Over Have To, but you have hit the wall and can't get past taking the first step. Your procrastinating. You know you need to get at it but you just can't. Keep in mind we can plan until the cows come home but nothing happens until we do something. Your thinking you will turn on your power of attraction mindset and it will happen. No. That's no going to happen either. It boils down to actually doing something and you get the ball rolling. There is no one simple winning formula. Here are four ways to help put your mind more at ease in dealing with procrastination.

1. The number one thing I do, and yes it does happen to me too, is I write down how I will feel once I get the task or change required completed. Write down what is the absolute worst thing that can happen if you do not succeed in tackling our in making this change. Please believe me. It's not front page news. Not even the last page.
2. Take the personal out of it. Some one says no or the idea does not work. The worst thing they can say is no. No one thinks the worse of you. In fact the person who said no might even being saying I wish I had the nerve and the ability to be able to do that. Yes it takes guts to make a tough ask and face rejection. But they have not rejected you. They rejected what you were trying to sell.
3. Let 's look at something that is not sales related. Lets consider the case of building a website for example. Lets imaging once again that you are not that technologically inclined and you are trying to build a web site. You have this mental block towards the pain of doing this. My suggestion is just imagine the joy of actually completing it. Imagine what you have learned. Imagine how it will help grow your business. Yes it might take a day locked away in a room but you wrestled with the monster and you got the job done. Yahoo.
4. Face the fear and do it anyway. Covey has said it in his book the "The Seven Habits of Highly Success People". Jack Canfield has written about it in His Book "The Success Principals". Susan Jeffers has written a book about it called"Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway" All great reads to help you get past the fear and the pain of rejection.

Some one has said no and you have survived. That wasn't so bad. Maybe I will try that again. In summary I suggest you look at it this way. Everything is easier to do the second time around. Success is just the other side of some pain and anguish. That pain will go away. In fact the pain will be very short lived. You have blazed a new trail. Each and every trip down that trail gets easier especially if the trail leads to your future success.

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