Overcoming Procrastination to Avoid Fearing Life's Next Move

Do you get anxious going to work? Postpone academic assignments until the night before a dreadful deadline? Experience stress racing through projects? Feel a need for perfectionism? Procrastination is a challenging time management problem that denies countless people progress, success, and dreams. 

Time management is one of the most important life skills to develop and maintain. If we lack discipline to remain consistent, we will likely struggle to start new projects. The fear of success, fear of failure, fear of criticism, fear of the unknown, and fear of rejection can make tasks, projects, assignments, and workloads appear like large mountains. 

Just imagine free climbing El Capitan without any expert assistance? As anticipation builds, fear grows, and anxiety kicks in, our stress response immediate activates fight mode to power through difficult situations. 

Do you remember your public speaking presentations? Most students panic to give a presentation out of fear. They may assume their peers are judging their intelligence. There is a social stigma connected with being smart and right as opposed to appearing unintelligent and wrong: Embarrassment is the ultimate humiliation.

The secret to overcoming procrastination is accepting that we are not perfect. At the end of the day, we are human beings who have flaws. It took me a decade to finally read a book that could have saved my dream. Once we realize that time is racing forward with or without us, we will respond with urgency. 

"Overcoming Procrastination: Practice The Now Habit And Guilt Free Play" by Neil A. Fiore is a powerful time management, personal growth, and self-help book filled with life gems. I purchased this book at a Barnes & Noble in Valencia, California during my UCSB college days. Unfortunately, I only skimmed pages--never committing to fully reading pages in this valuable life manual. 

After my recent tech job ended, I flipped a mental switch on to engage. At this exact moment in time, I completed 86 pages of this procrastination book. This recent progress alerted me to retrace my steps and return back to this blog. Our procrastination, our time management issues, our criticism are deeply rooted in our early memories growing up. 

I look forward to sharing my progress: My journey in overcoming procrastination to achieve my dreams and goals. Please share whether you have procrastination challenges. Have a productive Friday!