Stop procrastinating

How to crack on and get things done. (Plus Heart Leap Writing Hour starts at 9am)

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“It’s the job that’s never started that takes longest to finish.” J. R. R. Tolkien

I used to say that procrastination was my greatest skill. Procrastination makes me really miserable because it keeps me in the grey zone of doing nothing but wishing I wasn’t and eating a lot of Haribos until I feel sick.

I discovered I was usually procrastinating because either I was scared of doing something or I didn’t want to do something or I didn’t know how to do something.

So I created a new procrastination antidote about 5 years ago. When I was procrastinating - I would do one of three things: decide to be brave, figure out a way to not do the thing and earn more money to get someone else to do it or find a way to learn how to do thing I didn’t know how to do.

This is really working for me.

What might work for you?

Journalling prompt day 25 or day 31

• What behaviours do you indulge in when you procrastinate?

• Why do you procrastinate? (There may be different categories)

• What could you do differently?

  P.S In the Heart Leap Universe, I run a writing hour at 9am on a Tuesday and a Thursday for paid subscribers. The writing hour is for those who want to crack on and write their book - start it, finish it and publish it. We start at 9am. Hope you can join us. It’s a friendly group of writers, we chat for 5 minutes at the beginning and end of the hour and then write for 50 minutes - it’s strangely comforting and inspiring to write alongside your tribe.

  Here’s the Zoom link for paid subscribers.