044: Stop Procrastination!

What if we lived in a world where you had total freedom and you never had to do what you didn’t want to do? We do live in that world. And if you never did what you didn’t want to do you would be unhappy, unfulfilled, overweight, broke, and of no use to society.

Hey everyone it’s Lisa J. here and welcome to another edition of Build Your Belief podcast and YouTube Show. I’m a Mindset Coach and I love helping people shift their mindset to help them become more productive, and one topic we need to talk about this week is around procrastination.

First and foremost, stop making it mean anything. Too often my coaching clients, they judge themselves for procrastinating. They isolate themselves thinking, “Ugh! I’m the only one who has this fear or struggles with procrastination or has writer’s block”—so called.

No! Everyone procrastinates. Even the highest achievers have something in their business, in their life, in their role as a CEO, as an entrepreneur that they don’t want to do. And some of them deny it; some of them procrastinate, until they decide to shift their mindset about it.

So, here’s two ideas, your head and your heart. One idea for your head, one idea for your heart, to help you shift your mindset about procrastination. That it’s normal. The only difference between you and someone who overcomes their procrastination is they’ve shifted it in these two areas.

First, do you see yourself as a doer?

Or do you have the self-view as,

“Ugh! I always procrastinate.”

“Oh, I just struggle. I’m just always struggling.”

No, stop it!

You become who you practice to be.

You are who you say you are.

So, start putting markers in your day that you prove to yourself, you’re a doer.

You’re alarm clock goes off you get up. Your running shoes, your walking shoes are right there when you wake up and you put them on. When you walk out to the kitchen to get your hot tea or your coffee, your water bottle is there, fresh water. Your vitamins are set out. You have healthy snacks on your counter to remind yourself you’re a doer, you eat healthy, you work out, it’s who you are.

You put alarms in your phone to remind yourself to stop and breathe, to meditate, to pray, to send a text of gratitude, to feel blessed and highly favored. You remind yourself with alarms, you’re a doer. So, that’s the first one, to actually put markers in your day.

What could you do today to make yourself feel like a doer? I’m a doer, I do this…

Maybe it’s just you sit down and you make that first call. Only one, one call. And what happens when you make one call? Even if that one call you’ve fidget and you get scared and you embrace the anxiety, but you don’t procrastinate. You make one call. Just that act of making that one prospecting call, that one marketing email, that one social media post, helps you get in the zone of “I’m a doer.” So, that’s the first one, you train your brain to be a doer. You tell yourself you’re a doer. You put markers in your day that, “Yup, there it is, I’m a doer.”

The second thing is with your heart, you actually have reasons, emotional amazing reasons that pull you into action and helps you shut down the portal of procrastination. Everyone procrastinates. The person that overcomes that procrastination has a bigger “why,” a bigger reason, and they cultivate that reason. They wallow in those emotions of that dream being realized, of that example that they are for their spouse, their loved ones, their children. Of the feeling that they get when they accomplish their to do list. Of that sense of contribution or who they are when they fulfill on a promise.

What does it feel like to achieve that task that day?

What does it feel like to overcome procrastination and be a doer?

What does it look like to achieve that goal?

And for what reason are you achieving that goal?

That fitness goal—maybe it’s you’ve got that health condition and you want to be the one to walk your daughter down the aisle, and that’s your why. That’s why you get up and get those walking shoes on. That’s your why. It pulls you into action.

If you aren’t tapping into the power of your heart with your compelling reason then you’re missing a lot of fuel, the potential fuel to get you into action and keep you there.

First and foremost, stop making it mean anything. Everyone procrastinates. You do, I do, high-achiever’s, everyone does. The difference is they apply these two ideas, these two habits, to, number one, see themselves as a doer, put markers in your day that you show up as,

“Yeah, my self-view, who I’m becoming, I’m a doer.”

“I get shit done.”

“I do things.”

Progress. Every day in every way I’m more aligned with being a doer than being a procrastinator. And then the second thing is your heart, just tap into that beautiful emotion, and that vision of accomplishment, achieving for that person, for that community, for that country, for yourself, and who you show up for the world.

That’s it. That’s how you tap into this fuel called overcoming procrastination with your head and your heart. Make it a beautiful week, thanks everyone! See you next week on the Build Your Belief Show.