How to Kick Procrastination and Get Sh*t Done in Five Seconds

You're reading How to Kick Procrastination and Get Sh*t Done in Five Seconds, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. "I'm too lazy to change." I’ve heard clients say this a lot. My clients get down on themselves when they don’t look for new jobs or start the projects. They wonder if they’re doomed to procrastinate forever. I can get caught in nasty loops of negative self-talk when I see myself as lazy. And calling myself lazy just makes me lazier. The same pattern happens for my clients. My first step to getting out of the funk of procrastination is to know that the obstacle to getting myself into gear isn’t laziness or procrastination, it’s anxiety. There is one specific way I’ve seen anxiety obstruct forward movement in my life and the lives of clients. I am talking about about the Catch-22 Paradigm. The Anxiety Catch-22 To explain how this works, let me invite you into my worry-brain for a moment. It is 2007 and I am driving along, worried that I am going to be five minutes late to my job at Panera and also worried I’ll get to my job before this three minute song ends and the DJ says who sang it. Both can’t be true: I can’t be five minutes late and also cut off the three minute song. I've created a situation in which I'm impossible to please. I hear this same worry trap from my clients*. One client was worried about starting a romantic re...
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