Are Your Fears Causing You to Procrastinate?
I invite you to join me as we explore Paula's world. Paula is a 40 something, sharp, savvy entrepreneur who's managed a successful offline business for several years and has decided to start an online business. She's recently discovered that she has become familiar with someone who was a stranger to her before. She's not happy with this relationship and knows that she needs to correct the situation urgently, but before she can do so she has to identify why she has admitted this stranger into her life. The stranger is procrastination.
Paula has dutifully worked on her “To Do” list on Sunday evening and listed the 6-10 most important things she needs to do for her business during the week. Each evening she selects her three most important items for the next day but on Friday when she goes over her list she realizes that one task has been carried forward every day and still has not been completed. It needs to be done but she has been putting it off. Does she even know why?
Is fear causing Paula to procrastinate? If so, fear of what? Here are 3 of the basic fears that generally lead to procrastination: (more…)
