Learn how you can overcome Procrastination immediately!

The #1 problem is you can procrastinate because you are paralyzed with fear of failure, loss, pain and some times, success! What you fear becomes your reality.

The solutions are:
1. Fear is “False Evidence Appearing Real.
2. Most of what you fear never becomes reality.
3. The best way to overcome fear is to do what you fear.
4. It helps if you visualize the worst case scenario and accept it as a possibility and realize it will probably never come to pass.
5. Your imaginations exaggerate negative fears completely out of proportion and in most cases never occur!

The #2 problem is do you have a strategy to accomplish your goals?

The solutions are:
1. Make a contract with yourself.
2. Identify specific rewards for positive action.
3. Establish certain penalties for procrastination.
4. Break your goals down into small steps.
5. Schedule a time segment for each activity.
6. Give yourself rewards for correct action and penalties when you do not follow through.

The #3 problem is do you have a lack of discipline? It takes time to break old habits and establish new ones.

The solutions are:
1. Create a Success-Habits-Reminder card with boxes forcheckmarks to record your daily activities.
2. Tape it to your bathroom mirror.
3. Stick it on your desk to keep track of your actions.

The #4 problem is do you have a plan or assign priorities?

The solutions are:
1. Create a “To Do” List.
2. Determine immediate, intermediate and long-range goals.
3. Plan the goals that are in immediate reach of your abilities and assign priorities: Important & urgent, Important but not urgent, Not urgent or important.
4. Do the urgent & important tasks first.
5. Most of your activities are not important to your goals.
6. Only do the urgent & important.
7. Learn to eliminate the activities that do not help you attain your goals.

The #5 problem is do you try to complete the most urgent and important activities at the last moment?

The solution is every day schedule a block of prime time to work on an important activity that is due in the future. Soon you will find the time to analyze and polish your projects many times before they come due.

The #6 problem is there never seems to be enough time to contemplate your decisions!

The solution is schedule quiet time to make important decisions. Listen to relaxing music that balances both brain hemispheres. If you do not schedule time for exercise, rest, entertainment, fellowship and prayer your will spin out of control.

The #7 problem is you are overwhelmed.

The solution is Learn to say, “No!” to activities and individuals that do not contribute to the attainment of your goals. Often, people take advantage of your kindness and generosity without ever realizing you have better things to do with your time.

The #8 Problem is often you do not have a master plan.

The solutions are:
1. Create a master list of all personal, spiritual, physical, emotional and financial goals for 1 year.
2. Assign priorities for each.
3. Predict a date for completion.
4. Write everything in pencil so you can change it.

The #9 problem is do you use an organizer or daytime planner to coordinate your activities?

The solutions are:
1. Transfer the things on your master list to the correct dates in your organizer.
2. Check off each item as it is completed.
3. At the end of each day, reschedule the things that were not completed.
4. If an item is rescheduled twice, you are procrastinating.
5. Ask yourself, “What if I never do this?”
6. If the answer is, “No big deal!” Delete it.

The #10 problem is do you suffer from perfection paralysis?

The solutions are:
1. Make the decision that you are not perfect and never will be. Everything you do will be imperfect in some way.
2. Realize that if it is worth doing, it’s worth doing wrong until you get it right.
3. Stop judging yourself according to your accomplishments.
4. Learn to trust yourself by developing intuition and following your hunches. You will find your first premonition is usually the correct one.
5. Discover just how right you are by making predictions and observing how a high percentage of them are correct.
6. Make decisions on what you know is right.
7. Your decisions will be the correct ones if you believe in your choices and act with confidence.
8. In difficult situations do what you know is right, then you will always make the right decision.

Dick Pennington
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