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Effective Strategies for Overcoming Procrastination
Quit delaying and get busy living your dreams!
Hi, my name is Wendy and I’m a procrastinator.
I procrastinate any opportunity I can get away with it. And the worst part is that I don’t just procrastinate on things I don’t want to do. I also procrastinate on things I do want to do. I tell myself I need to wait until I have more time, or I’m not so tired, or until I can group these three or four things together — you know, the same excuses I offer for the things I don’t want to do.
But here’s what I’ve learned about procrastination. It solves nothing. Whether you’re putting off something you don’t want to do out of dread, or something you do want to do for other reasons, the end result is you’re putting something off and usually for no good reason. Sometimes when we procrastinate, we do something else in place of the activity we’re putting off, convincing ourselves that we’re still being productive and getting things done.
In this day and age we are so inundated with choice and opportunity that you might even say we are spoiled for choice. There is just so much that we could do, we often end up not doing anything at all. Procrastination is one of the biggest dream killers. In a world where there is so much demand for your attention, it is becoming ever…
