Tuesday, November 25, 2008

How To Beat Procrastination - Overlook This Step And You'll Procrastinate For The Rest Of Your Life

Procrastination is not something creative people have a particularly loving and affectionate relationship with. It’s one of the biggest - if not THE biggest – creativity killers there is.

Think for a moment what your creative life would be like if you were able to simply go and create without delay, without finding a million and one ways to subtly avoid creating the work that’s most important to you.

Whether it’s through checking your favourite internet sites every 10 minutes just in case they’ve added something new that you can’t afford to miss, watching TV shows that you’re not really all that interested in, or continually sorting and rearranging your creative supplies so they’re in the perfect order for you to begin creating, we all have our favourite procrastination habits.

Maybe you just read that paragraph and thought “oh yeh I do that TV one, but what I also do is put on the whole season boxset of my favourite sitcom and get sucked into this “just one more episode, THEN I’ll get down to creating” kind of situation... Before I know it I’ve watched quarter of a season’s worth and created nothing more than a dent in the sofa the shape of my derriere...”

Or maybe you read and recognised the one about rearranging your art supplies. “Except I also have different ways of organising my paints, either by colour, or by mood or by how full the tube is, or alphabetically by the name of the colour. What I then do is make lists of the different ways I can organise my paints, so depending on my mood and the conditions, I can consult my lists and arrange the paints so I’m in the perfect position to start painting... Er, but by then I’ve usually run out of time. Again.”

Congratulations. What you’ve just done is take the crucial first step in overcoming procrastination.

And that is to admit you procrastinate. This step is not about casting judgement, or criticising. It’s not about analysing all the endless reasons WHY you may be procrastinating. It simply saying: “Yes I procrastinate. I have certain habits I use to avoid creating more.”

Once you’ve taken this step – a step that many of us live in complete denial of and wonder why we hardly ever create anything – you’re in a far more powerful position to start to overcome those habits of procrastination that have choked the life out of your creativity for so long.

Ignore this step – by not admitting you procrastinate - and you’re simply dooming yourself to procrastinate for the rest of your life...

So if you’re ready to finally beat procrastination and set your creativity free in the next 21 days, I invite you to check out the powerful ecourse “7 Steps To Freedom: How To Beat Procrastination And Set Your Creativity Free” at http://www.HowToBeatProcrastination.com

Don't procrastinate about it - visit now!

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