4 Reasons and Cures to Procrastination

I know, I know….I should start an exercise program, I should fix that hole in the screen, I should take the car in for an oil change. Am I the only one that procrastinates? I don’t think so. It’s a topic that comes up often in my seminars. With some research and discussions with some psychologists I was actually able to develop an easy formula to explain why we procrastinate and then tips to stop. Great right?

So I call these my items of procrastination and we’ll use an acronym of IDDM. Ready?

I = It’s gotta be perfect. That’s for you “C” type personalities who want to make sure all the research is done, and all the t’s crossed and I’s dotted. I often get people who come and tell me they are going to write a book. When I ask how far they’ve come, they look like deer in headlights. Well they haven’t even started…because they are waiting for everything to be perfect. If you are an avid reader like myself then you know - there isn’t a perfect book out there. Every book I read has misspelled words, or a page number missing, a page printed upside down, etc. So what’s the cure? That old saying…”Doing something is better than doing nothing at all.” Get out of that paralysis and take a baby step. You’ll find you can take another and another!