How To Beat Procrastination - You Can Take This Important First Step TODAY

Procrastination is the art of managing to find anything else to do instead of the thing you actually really want and need to get going on.

All of us suffer from having procrastination habits to different extents and it's often creative people who, due to that inherent creativity, manage to take procrastination to new inventive levels, whilst all the time convincing themselves they're not actually procrastinating at all.

This common mind trick is so clever we don't even see that it is a mind trick most of the time and instead truly believe that all the little, fairly trivial, tasks we preoccupy ourselves with are urgent and essential and nothing else can possibly be done before they're taken care of.

Here are some procrastination examples, see which resonate most with you:

"I'd love to do some creative work but I need to reorganise my paints and brushes first. I can't possibly start painting if my colours aren't in order."

"I need to just catch up with a few emails then I'll start creating. If I know I have loads of unread messages in my inbox and keep hearing more come through I just get anxious and won't be able to focus on creating."

"I want to do some new sketches but many of my pencils are broken. I need to go through and make sure they're all sharpened and ready, in case I need to use all of them. In fact I probably will need to go out and get some new spare pencils in case I run out."

"I will get down to creating right after the end of this episode of my favourite sitcom. Oh actually the next episode is one of the funniest of this season, I might just watch that too. Then I'll be in a better mood and I can start creating..."

Sound familiar?

In each of these, we convince ourselves that doing the activity in question is the magic solution that's going to help us suddenly feel creative and inspired. If that was the case, it'd be great. But it's not. Because once you've done one of the above "urgent" tasks, another will come along. And then another.

Put simply, you're procrastinating, but you won't admit it to yourself.

And this is the crucial first step to beating procrastination and reclaiming your creativity. Admit that yes, like all of us do, you too sometimes get caught up in procrastination habits that suck hours of time, time you could be spending creating those projects most important to you.

It's nothing to be ashamed of or afraid of, we ALL procrastinate.

But it's only when you admit it, when you stop and say "Yes I procrastinate, when I really just want to be able to create more", that you can start to recognise how and when you procrastinate and beat those habits that've stunted your creativity for so long.

So take that step today. It could be the most important step you ever take for your creativity.

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