Conquer Procrastination and Fear

If the thought of tackling your next project causes your heart to pound, and your stomach to clench. If you get tired or overwhelmed just thinking of all you need to do. If you find yourself going to the "fridge" and using food as an alternate activity, instead of getting to the task at hand. There is Hope! Yes, even for you, who have this habit down to an eloquent science.

When people come to my classes over 60% of them reveal that they believe that procrastination means that they are inherently lazy or unproductive. Yet, when we start talking about how they live, we find that these same people are able to juggle many of life’s challenges with ease. The people who find there way to my office or seminars are usually high achievers, and in many cases very successful in their careers and life. So procrastination has nothing to do with being inept, lazy or apathetic.

It is actually just the opposite. For most people procrastination is caused by FEAR. Fear can come from early childhood experiences, and the beliefs a child forms because of them. It is a pity that so many talented, intelligent people secretly carry around fear at the deepest level of their unconscious mind. Old childhood emotions can create many hurdles, and unnecessary fear that the adult needs to push through, as they move through life. Old patterns of thinking as well as childhood coping skills, may not be working for the adult, but because they were set in childhood, they are triggered automatically by life events.

At times you might even be aware of an old pattern surfacing when you "hear" a "thought" playing in the background of your mind. But many times the "background thought" passes through so quickly, you are not even aware that you just had a thought. The result is the same, the body reacts with tension and the "background thoughts" cause doubt. No matter how successful you are, when these old negative thoughts surface at some level you believe the "words" running like a recording in the mind. This can be changed; you have learned a lot that the "child" you didn't have and you not longer need to have old childhood patterns running in the "back on your mind."

I have many hundreds of people who had learned the skills for reprogramming reactions they not longer wanted.

One of my clients is a top-level executive who is highly respected in his field. If you met him at a business or social function you would never dream that he was feeling blocked and stuck. The people that know say that he has the magic touch, and everything he puts his mind to is a success. In our first meeting he told me it was embarrassing for him to even admit he needed help. As he was surfing the net he came across one of my articles and he put it aside. For almost 3 months he struggled with feeling angry with himself for procrastinating. Luckily, he pulled out the article again and decided to look at my website. The rest is history; he called me hopeful that there might be a way to get relief from the awful way his was feeling.

In reality the problem that caused him to seek help was actually just "the tip of the iceberg." That was one of the reasons it was so perplexing for him. For the rest of this article go to my website.