“How To Kill The Power Of Procrastination In Your Life”

The power of action

First of all, you have to understand the fact that action is the key to results and fulfilment. Without proper actions, dreams and goals cannot be realised. It takes action to make things happen. Without action, nothing gets done. If nothing is done, nothing is accomplished.

For you to be this person that you normally dream about, you have to be about action. Action must be a major language you speak. You see, things don’t just happen in one’s life. One has to be really intentional. One needs to be really radical.

You can’t experience whatever you daydream about if you suspend action in your approach and pursuits. For every manner of exploit, action plays a major part. Nothing is going to fall on your lap. So it would really help you to be a man and woman of action.

One might ask, what is procrastination? For some this is a very difficult term. It is deep english. Yes the word seems complex and difficult but what is it all about? When you are busy delaying and postponing the things you are supposed to be doing now, You are procrastinating. When you suspend action, you are procrastinating.

Unpacking procrastination

When you are writing a test next week, instead of studying while you have time, you are suspending the study time till the last hour. What are you doing? You are procrastinating. You are withholding vital actions. As we have established before, nothing happens without action. Action seals the deal. Action closes the deal.

In this article, we will be looking more on destroying the power procrastination has in your life. Whatever you are struggling with has power over you. Whatever has power over you is definitely controlling you. Whatever is controlling you is ruling you. So today we are making sure that you kill and destroy the power of procrastination over your life once and for all.

For us to deal with procrastination, we have to understand what causes it. If we can detect and diagnose its causes, then we can be able to cure it. What are the causes of procrastination? What really causes people to procrastinate? Let’s find out.

• Fear of failure

People procrastinate because they are afraid of failing. They do not want to fail. Failing is part of life because that is how we all learn. Failure leads to success. If you are withholding action because you are afraid of failing, you will not fulfill and accomplish anything in this life. When you were a baby, you used to fall a lot before you could walk properly.

You used to be a baby crying all day on the bed. Later on you started crawling. Then you were preparing to walk. You didn’t just walk. You had to fall time and again before you can walk properly and perfectly. Even as an adult, you will fail time and again because life is a mystery. So embrace failure as a powerful tool to usher you into your success. Start that project. Open that business. Write that book because time waits for no man.

• Lack of self-confidence

The moment people are procrastinating, there might be confidence problems involved. Lacking confidence causes people to withholding whatever action relevant for the results. Without confidence, it will be impossible to live your life.

Confidence will help you take action and accomplish whatever you need to accomplish. When people procrastinate, they lack proper confidence in themselves. When you are confident, procrastination will melt like candle wax. We will help you build your confidence in our upcoming book called “the confident you”. Make sure you get our upcoming book so you may develop and grow your confidence.

• Perfectionism

When you want everything to be perfect before you can act, you will never amount to anything. When you want things to be perfect before you can act, you can sometimes wait forever. Perfectionism will make you wait forever. You cannot wait for things to be perfect before you can act.

You also as a person need not be perfect before you can act. Act wherever you are with whatever you have. Life will meet you forward. When you are aiming to be perfect before you can do anything, chances are that you will do nothing. Don’t allow your desire to be perfect cripple your fruitful actions. Remember, without action, there cannot be results. The results will only be present where there is action.

Now that you have understood what is procrastination, you are ready to know how to deal with the power of procrastination. Now that you know all the causes of procrastination, you are ready to move to the next level. So how can one defeat the power of procrastination in their life? How can you kill the power of procrastination in your life? The following ways can help you kill the power of procrastination once and for all in your life.

3 ways of destroying the power of procrastination over your life

• Have a daily 5

Have a list of 5 things you do daily that will help you get closer to your purpose or goal. Action shortens the gap between you and the realisation of your goals. The more you take action towards your goals, the more and easy they shall come true.

• Set and communicate artificial deadlines

Create deadlines for yourself to follow. Set this deadlines and religiously fulfil them. Tell others whom you can trust or trust the deadlines you have set for yourself. This will in turn put you under pressure to perform. When there are people who know what you are trying to achieve, your entire being will recognise this as a reminder and wakeup call to perform so you may get the results.

This deadlines will then keep you in a corner. They will discipline you until you fulfill them. Have this sorts of deadlines as they can help you get closer to your goals. Each and every activity must have it’s own deadline. Attach the activities to their relevant deadlines.

• Have accountability partners

Have people in place to keep you accountable. Who can hold you accountable? This people will then make sure that you do what you have to do. They will make sure you do the things that you wanted the to do. The accountability partners will press you to the corner till you perform all the relevant actions that are responsible for your results. Look around in your life, who can you delegate this function to? Find them or him or her. It could be a group or an individual.

Conclusion

We have come to the end of the road for today. I hope you learnt all it takes to tame once for all this enemy called procrastination. Read this again and again till you get it. Learn it and put it in practice and you shall witness change and results in your life. Practice brings results.

You can deal with this enemy once and for all. We have presented you with all the relevant tools to do so. The ball is now in your caught. When you have tamed procrastination, other things will fall in place in your life.

For the last time, what is procrastination? When you delay and postpone things that should be done now, you are procrastinating. That’s what procrastination is all about. This enemy can be more bad if not handled and tamed. What causes procrastination? The 3 causes of procrastination are:

• Lack of self confidence;
• Fear of failure;
• Perfectionism;

How can you destroy the enemy of procrastination? 3 ways of taming procrastination once and for all.

• Accountability partners;
• Daily 5s;
• Artificial deadlines

We have come to the end of the road for today. Till we meet again in the next post. Peace