Time Warrior: How to defeat procrastination, people-pleasing, self-doubt, over-commitment, broken promises and chaos by Chandler Steve

Author:Chandler, Steve [Chandler, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Business, Time Management, Personal Development.
Publisher: Maurice Bassett
Published: 2011-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 49

What are the steps I should take to overcome procrastination?

Do the things you’re procrastinating on. Those are the steps I would take.

List three things you’ve procrastinated on. Do those three things. Those three things will be your first three steps. If you really want real steps that will always work in a guaranteed way.

Why didn’t you do these things before now? Why do you care? I don’t care if it was fear, laziness, or because your father never showed you how to do it. I don’t care if it’s a DNA imbalance on the right side of your spiral nebula.

I don’t care about anything like that.

If procrastination is occurring, do the things you are procrastinating on. It’s a very simple cure and it’s the last thing people really want to do because they don’t really want to cure procrastination. They want to find some mysterious psychotic fault line in themselves that causes them to procrastinate and then try to examine that fault line (even if it takes years) rather than do the thing.

Emerson has written many wonderful essays on this and one of the things he said is “Do the thing and you shall have the power.” That’s the opposite of what most people think. They think, “I don’t seem to have the power to do the thing! That’s my problem. I don’t really have the willpower or the energy to DO THE THING!”

Well, OK, if you’re a procrastinator on mowing the lawn or shoveling the walk, go do it. Then do it again, and do it again, and I promise you the procrastination will go away.

In his very poetic autobiography, Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov wrote about his experience of life. He realized that true spiritual enlightenment came not in a passive dreamy state, but rather during the most intense action. People believe somehow that passivity and repose are the sources of vision. But Nabokov said no, “It is certainly not then—not in dreams—but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits.”

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