If you procrastinate too much, then just focus on matching your WORD with your ACTION
This is just a simple, little trick that should help you get back into action. This is for you if:
- You consider yourself to be ambitious, gifted, or otherwise with tons of unrealized potential
- You are not acting or living in such a way that serves this unrealized potential
The problem is that you have all these dreams, ideas, and visions. You can see them, you know they’re real, you know you can make all of this happen… but you don’t! And because you don’t your wheels are just spinning in the mud, but you’re not actually moving forward in any way.
In other words, there’s no connection anymore between your word and your action. Bring these two things back in relationship, and you’ll start regaining momentum in your life.
How it works
The big mistake that most people make is that they’ll try either to
- Do too much all at once, or
- Give up on themselves before they even try.
In the first case, you’re using your word to make too many promises that you can’t follow through on, and in the second case, you’re not using your word at all — so you’re not giving yourself anything to do!
In this post though, I’m suggesting a third method which is to give yourself something small — but important — to do, and get it done. This feels like getting a win after a LONG procession of failures. It feels like “ah! I can actually do this!” It feels like encouragement.
… Now you have something that you can actually build upon.
How to use this tool
If you’re reading this at the beginning of the day, then choose a single thing that you can do that would move you toward your highest ambition/priority. Choose something that you could do in 30 minutes or less.
When you choose this task, define it so that you know when it’s done. For example, don’t say “I’m going to work on my business”, say “I’m going to follow up with 5 leads.”
Let this one thing be enough, for now.
The biggest thing to avoid is the trap of “This isn’t a big enough challenge, I’m capable of so much more! How pitiful it is that I can only do this one little thing!”
Avoid this thinking. In order to match your word with your action, you need to meet yourself where you are right now. Let this little task be enough for now — and then give yourself something more challenging tomorrow.
This way you can find exactly where your limitations are, and you can begin to push them outward from there.
If you procrastinate too much, get yourself a quick win today. Give yourself one important — but small — task that you will do today. Do this task. Re-establish connection between what you do, and what you say you’ll do. This will give you new energy, new momentum. You’ll be ready to take on more.
Hope this helps!
Brent
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