Fight your inner desire to just browse the web and see what new possibilities are out in the world. Fight the desire to watch endless hours of television (especially the news during an extremely hectic time), fight the desire to sit on your bum with a cellphone glued to your hand swiping through social media. Fight to get that procrastination out of your head.
All these “items” I fight with every day. What happens at the end of the day is I find that my best intentions do not get completed. My procrastination is out of fear. Fear that I am unable to complete tasks to what the picture is set in my mind. Fear that the end results will not be perfect. My inside and outside worlds do not match. My question is “How do you fight procrastination?”
Get back up
I have never been one to stay down when pushed. But it takes me time to get up and begin again. Have you heard the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over again expecting different results. Getting up is easy, changing the way we approach our rise needs to change.
Over these past months, I have done some really deep soul searching and I learned that I probably am insane because I do not change my approach to overcome my procrastination.
I talk a REAL good talk but haven’t always used my own words to help myself. And if I am unable to change, how will I be able to help anyone else?
Put Up your Fists
How am I going to survive the fight if I do not prepare myself properly? If I am unable to answer this simple question, then I am going nowhere. I might as well sit on the sofa, watch tv with my phone and see everyone else’s lives in action.
I DON’T WANT THAT FOR MYSELF. I do not want that for anyone in my “village” either.
I love TedTalk (great for bite-sized information). One of them was given by Nic Voge, who directs the McGraw Center Learning Programs at Princeton University. His speech is linked to a UC Berkley professor, Martin Covington’s paper, The Self-Worth Theory of Achievement Motivation: Findings and Implications.
Performance = Ability = Worth
This should be the equation
Performance ≠ Ability ≠ Worth
We believe that our worth is equal to our ability and our performance of that ability. Because of the fear that we have to protect ourselves by procrastinating. Don’t let the fear of failure be greater than the idea of success.
Concussion
I’ve said this before when your brain has two conflicting thoughts, it freezes. But, in this case, I have given myself a concussion because I feel like my brain has been bouncing around in my skull.
What is really happening? My thoughts are getting cross-wired and going into survival mode. Remember fear is a way of protecting ourselves from the hungry lion that wants to have us for its next meal!
Next Round Training
Every morning is the opportunity to begin again. This morning, I didn’t want to get out of bed, but I knew I needed to. I did a countdown, 5-4-3-2-1. Guess what? It WORKED. I got out of bed and began my routine.
I’m not letting the fear of failure rule my life! Just remember that every day is the perfect day to change your routine. That means I have every day to live my best. I hope you take this journey with me. Let me know what you are doing to help your heart, health, and village.