4 Secrets to Help You

Stop Procrastinating and

Get More Things Done

1. Begin to Notice your excuses.  Excuses help us justify putting off the thing we believe we should be doing.  An excuse is an explanation that works like a smoke screen.  It keeps us from examining the problem in a rational way.    “I’ll do it Tuesday ,“  “I’ll do it now, but first I’ll clean off my desk, or watch a movie, or ________ ,  “I’m too tired,”  “I will get the easy stuff out of the way and then I will tackle that,”  “It’s too hot, too boring, too early, too late, I’m too young, too old, it’s too expensive,  too hard, too easy,” – and it goes on and on.
2. Once you know what your excuses are, say to yourself:   ”Even though I am using the excuse that _______________ to avoid _____________, I love and accept myself, especially the parts of me that don’t want to do it right now and the parts of me that want to believe my excuses. I forgive all the parts of me that resist doing __________.” 
3. Ask yourself: “What is the underlying fear that makes me resistant to getting this done?  Then say, “Even though I am afraid that _____________, I love and accept myself just as I am.”
4. Stop using the words should, must, have to, need to.  For instance, if you have been telling yourself,”I really have to get the taxes done,” change your statement to; “I really want to get the taxes done because it makes me feel so good to have them out of the way.”