You might be wondering about the subject line in this email. Most people consider procrastination to be a
bad thing, not a good thing. However, there is a way you can use procrastination to your advantage.
Procrastination is simply the tendency we all have to put off doing things that we don't feel like doing.
Usually we procrastinate about the "hard" things we need to accomplish, not the easy
ones. It feels satisfying to get a few quick easy things marked off the To Do list and it doesn't require us to get out of the comfort zone.
We know that the real growth into the people we want to be or the lives we want to live happens outside the comfort zone though. But we still procrastinate about those things, which just delays us in accomplishing our
goals.
How can you use procrastination to help you achieve more?
You use it as a guide to what your most important tasks that need to be accomplished each day. I heard about this idea in a podcast called The Joy of Procrastination.
When you wake up each morning, or when you plan the night before, ask yourself ... "OK procrastination, what do you have for me today?"
What are the three things that you are procrastinating the most about right now? Chances are, they are the three things that you really need to do to get to the next
level.
Set those things as your most important goals to accomplish in the next 24 hours. Then immediately go spend at least 15 minutes taking action on the first item.
Your subconscious mind knows what you need to do, so let it do the work of setting your priorities by
attacking the tasks that you procrastinate the most about. It is amazing how many roadblocks and obstacles will just melt away when you spend your time doing the hard things, not the easy ones.
