Now that we’ve talked about how to leverage your personality to overcome procrastination and how to break through whatever is holding you back, let’s take a look at how procrastination can be valuable to you.

The Perfection of Procrastination: While we might have discovered where you are stuck or blocked, and so unconsciously sabotage yourself by not moving on your tasks, this piece of procrastination may show you that there is a very good reason for not getting it done. Imagine you are connecting with a person to do a project together. You both divide up the work, but for some reason you can’t get yours done. You try and try, and can’t figure out why you keep procrastinating.

Using some of the process above – meaning to tune into the energy of procrastination – is the way to discover the reason. Very often it can be that this project isn’t the right one to work on at this time, and the procrastination is an attempt to say no or get out of something that may not work out so well. Maybe this person has different values than you, or perhaps the work load isn’t equal, or a multitude of other factors that really point to the fact that you need to back out and say no. In this case, the procrastination is doing something for you that you haven’t been able to do yourself.

The point here is to reframe procrastination to something that may be trying to serve you versus viewing it as a character flaw.

There ya go….I’d love your thoughts and what has work for you with procrastinating and getting through it.

Blessings,
Therese

Part 1 of this series about procrastination dealt with some strategies on how to overcome the “Habit of Procrastination”. I’d like to dig a bit deeper this time and address the possible causes of procrastination and how to blast through the things holding you back.

The Revelation of Procrastination: If you are putting something off, maybe there is something underneath that you aren’t aware of. Sometimes procrastination is really a signal that you may be on a mindset land mine! I’ll give you an example – imagine you have a big project to do that would generate a nice chunk of $. Suddenly, in spite of all the pushing and encouragement from those around you, inertia sets in. No matter what you do, this puppy isn’t getting pushed out! If you use the process below, you can discover what’s underneath.

1. Acknowledge you are stuck.
2. Find the ‘part’ of you that is stuck or blocked.
3. Ask what it’s afraid of?
4. Ask what it’s trying to protect you from?
5. Listen for the answer…even if it seems a bit crazy to you.

What you may discover is that there is a part of you who feels undeserving of that success and the $ that was coming in. The procrastination is just the part’s way of keeping you safe. (This is a big coaching trick I use when my clients are stuck! If you discover you can’t move past this, you may want to have a Mindset Breakthrough Session, and we’ll knock it out!)

Do I have you on the edge of your seat to find out in my next post about how procrastination can actually serve you, if you let it? Stay tuned for part 3, “The Perfection of Procrastination”.

Blessings,
Therese