Not tomorrow. Not Monday. Not on New Year’s Day.
Right now.
There will always be another tomorrow to which you’ll be tempted to push it.
Until there isn’t.
Tag / procrastination
Start with a rough draft
It’s much easier to make your work better if you have something to work with.
You can’t edit your blog post if you haven’t written it yet.
You can’t make your new song swing if you don’t record the demo.
You can’t grow your business if you don’t start by landing one paying customer.
Trying to make things perfect before you put the work down on paper is futile.
Get the rough draft finished. Then go back and make it better.
Action brings clarity (not thinking)
You can sit and think all you want… Contemplating your next step, figuring out all the possible outcomes, anticipating roadblocks.
But eventually, you’ll have to do something.
And most of the time, that sort of thinking is just procrastination. And it usually happens because we’re scared to take action.
Ideas aren’t eggs. Sitting on them doesn’t help them hatch.
If you want to figure out if something is right or possible or good for you, try it and see what happens.
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Are you using “someday” to procrastinate?
Seth Godin wrote a very short blog post today you need to read. (Click here to read it)
I taught a class on this very subject yesterday afternoon.
The students all had these grand plans to accomplish big goals for their budding businesses. But I told them: without a deadline to meet, they wouldn’t succeed.
By the end of it, all 71 of my students had a date certain for when they’d accomplish their goals. And we worked together to develop daily action steps to get there, too.
“Someday” isn’t a day on the calendar. Declare your date and make it happen.
(It never ceases to amaze me how Seth’s shortest posts seem to be the most insightful and relevant.)
Make sure you read his post here. And subscribe to his newsletter—it’s the most insightful email you’ll read each day.
What are you afraid of?
“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he could do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.”
–Henry Ford
In what areas do you doubt yourself?
What is the resistance telling you right now you cannot do?
Write it down; call it what it is. “Notice and name” as the folks over at Precision Nutrition like to say.
Don’t judge yourself; don’t feel guilty. Just say what it is. Then start asking why.
Why are you afraid?
You might find the answer surprising…you might also find that you have no answer and, perhaps, no reason to fear.
What one thing could you do right now to move away from the fear? What change do you desperately want to make but are too afraid to take the first step?
You can do it.
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