Procrastination is a Dream killer.

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Procrastination is one of the biggest killers of greatness, success, and achievement. When you start procrastinating and you start saying, “I’ll do it tomorrow,” or “I’ll do it later,” because that sense of urgency completely goes to the wayside.

 No one ever choose to be a procrastinator. Yet some of us get overwhelm and then turned into a procrastinator. What we need to do, is to learn is to “retrain our brain”.

I’m a big animal person. I love horses and dogs. I work with them and I train them to have certain, desirable characteristics. It’s a similar practice with training our brain. We first need to define the behaviors we are after, that we need to be consistent in the expectation in those behaviors. Most importantly, any idea or a plan doesn’t automatically turn into action. We have to train ourselves to take I-Action step before this behaviors becomes a habit. 

To start, begin to write down a checklist of things you want to

accomplish for a day. Everything from going to the bank, writing your blog, prospecting, to calling your mother etc… The point is you are retraining your brain by writing down the list and then check them off before the day end. This will help you fight against procrastination and keep you from getting overwhelm. Start by finishing your check list one day at a time, then go for completing your check list 7 days in a row, two weeks in a row then three weeks in a row with your check list done 80% or more. 

You will find that after three weeks of doing the check lists, it is becoming a habit or an expectation you grown to have for yourself. You may begin to enjoy putting the check mark on your check list. Keep practicing the check list and eventually it will become a mental checklist. And you no longer would need to write them down. Your brain would have been trained to choose to take action to do things, to check them off.

 

Giovanna Garcia

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