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Manage Your Fears

The second thing that prompts procrastination is fear, whether real or imagined.

Unless you’re being chased by a grizzly bear, fear is a projection. It’s a projection either into the past or a projection into the future. The fear projection into the past is that something wrong or something bad is going to catch up with you from your past.

Or you fear there is a trauma coming in the future. Even fear from being chased by a grizzly is a projection that the bear may catch you and if he does he will do you serious harm or even kill you.

So feeling anxious, feeling worried, is very normal. All that means is that your protections in your basic self, are warning you that you need to be conscious. You need to pay attention. You need to be concerned about things. But, there’s a difference between being concerned and being painfully over concerned. 

But, feeling anxious, feeling worried occasionally is normal. But, you don’t want to take it too far. Do be concerned about the quality of your life. Be concerned about how your money’s invested. Be concerned about the quality of schools and the quality of education that children get today, or the quality of a college education that you or your children are going to get. Have concern about making sure that you maintain your health, your vitality. Be concerned about that you’re doing those things to move your career or your business forward. Be concerned about making your good life or good decisions.

But, when concern goes too far it becomes painful over concern. Painful over concern can be continuous or extreme worry, fear or anxiety. You want to watch out for that. Painful over concern can stop you dead in your tracks. And all it really is, is a projection. It’s a projection into the past or into the future.

So watch your projections. In order to change your life in a positive way, you begin to project positive possibilities into your future or the past. Painful over concern can ruin your health, block your action, lead to procrastination.

To move beyond it, the pathway is to create a compelling vision. Having a strong, healthy self-coaching inner dialogue and learning new things, can absolutely support you in your movement and your growth. And taking action ongoingly, regularly, toward your goals—towards where you want to be.

Overwhelm or Too Big

The third thing that makes procrastination happen, is overwhelm. Feeling it’s too big. It’s too much. Overwhelm is a fear of “there is too much.” It’s too hard, too slow, too little, too something. It’s just too _________ (fill in the blank…….)

Once when lecturing to a college group, the author John Steinbeck was asked what it was like to write a novel. Mr. Steinbeck paused a moment and he looked around the room and said, “Well, writing a novel is rather like painting a barn with a toothbrush. When you first start out it is rather overwhelming.”

Then he said, “What you do is you think about the whole building and then you make decisions about which part of the building you’re going to paint first.” Which is what we’ve been talking about, right? Steps to the vision.

He followed with, “You map the building out and you decide where you’re going to start. And then you pick this one little corner down in the bottom part of one side of that building and you paint like a little four inch square. And then you paint another little four inch square next to it. And then you paint a little four inch square next to it and you just keep doing that.” And he said, “When you get done painting the barn, it doesn’t look too bad, but it’s difficult.”

You see, overwhelm is a size issue. It’s about volume. It’s an amount. It’s time. It’s the steps to getting it done. It’s the distance you have to go. It’s the expanse. It’s TOO hard. It’s TOO much. So to move beyond overwhelm the big challenge for the vast majority of people is the simple phrase ‘I can’t’.

There are limitations. I mean, there really are things that we can’t do. For instance, I doubt that at 70 years old you’re going to go and win the world’s strongest man competition against all those 25 years olds who have been taking steroids forever. Or even if they’re not taking steroids they’ve been at it for a long time. They are big powerful men who’ve spent their whole lives training. You, at 70 deciding you’re going to start now and go win the competition is just not very likely.

Now, you could be a really strong, healthy, vital you at 70 – or 60 or 40 or 20 or whatever it happens to be. You could be that. You can be an absolutely stunningly great you, but I wouldn’t worry about being the strongest man in the world at 70 because probably that’s not going to happen. Things do occur though sometimes without us even thinking about it that are just stunning.

(to be continued…)

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