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Waiting to Start? Procrastination

Waiting to Start? Procrastination

by | Goals

Do you have a goal or dream you’ve been waiting to start? When you have more time, you’ve finished your certification, or are you procrastinating? Procrastination is your obstacle to overcome on the way to achieving your goals.

Set to Repeat

Let me guess, you wake up every day with your dream in your heart, thinking that maybe today is the day that you’ll have time to get started. Only to end your day with yet again another day of waiting to start on that goal.

Living each day as if you’re on repeat. Life is happening right now; it’s not three months from now when you’ll have that certification or more time.

Here is the hard truth: you will never have more time. Now, this is important; you’ll still have the same 24 hours in the day that you have now.

When I woke up to this truth, I began to shift. I stopped letting procrastination be my biggest obstacle. After that, I went from hoping something would happen to creating plans and believing it was happening.

You need to do the scary thing to move forward.

The bigger the dream goal, the more the brain will kick in to keep us safe. This is normal. Put it aside and start making your dreams a priority. Choose your goal.

To put it another way, no more choosing the obstacles of procrastination. In the end, the choice is always yours.

By the way, If you need help getting out of the repeat cycle of procrastination, I got you. This is what I do with my private coaching clients. Here is the link to my private coaching application.

Get Crystal Clear

I’m sure you’ve heard it before when you take time to create a plan for what you want to accomplish, you no longer have to try and figure out what to do. Creating plans allow you to make decisions ahead of time.

When we are not clear, it will put us in the procrastination cycle. As a result, our mind begins to feel overwhelmed and out of control with all the decisions. Then it is easier not to do anything at all.

It can be messy when it’s all stuck in your head. All the to-do items floating around that you’d like to get done.

Take time to get it out of your head. Sit down, relax and do a mind sweep of the actions to be done to bring your dreams to life.

Waiting to Start? Procrastination Is Your Obstacle

Create the Map

Then with all your action items, begin to create a road map of all the small steps that you need to do to make it happen.

The trick is to take your list of action items and start to put them in order. Some prefer to reverse engineer the goal, beginning with the end in mind and working backward.

By working backward, you will see a clear vision of all the actions to be done.

Here’s the big secret: block time on your calendar to get the work done. By doing this, you’re creating space in your day to overcome the procrastination obstacle.

Time on your calendar means you know precisely what to do and when. Suddenly, your days will go from waiting to start to doable and done.

Do you have a big goal that you’ve been waiting for more time to start? I invite you back next week as I kick off my series on creating routines to simplify your life to stop being so busy.

When we create routines it helps us to simplify our lives to eliminate everyday decisions and give you more time and brain space to go after your dreams.

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Little Side Note

When you’re waiting to start on your goal. Remind yourself that you can do hard things. You’ve got this! I believe in you.

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

  • Procrastination is your obstacle to overcome on the way to achieving your goals.
  • Here is the hard truth: you will never have more time.
  • You need to do the scary thing to move forward.
  • When we are not clear, it will put us in the procrastination cycle.
  • Here’s the big secret: block time on your calendar to get the work done. By doing this, you’re creating space in your day to overcome the procrastination obstacle.

Private Coaching

Why do I believe in the power of private coaching?

Because it is truly life-changing. When your coach asks you that mind-blowing question that suddenly allows you to see what you've been missing all along that was literally right in front of your face.

You just need someone with a different perspective to help you see it.

Are you ready to experience life from a different perspective?

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Little Tiny Decisions

Little Tiny Decisions

by | Online Business

Take a moment and think about all the little tiny decisions you’ve made today. The good, bad, and the ugly little decisions that you made and probably didn’t give it a second thought. Do you know how all those little tiny decisions are adding up to have a long-term effect on your life?

Negative little tiny decisions add up

All the tiny decisions we make at the moment do not seem like much. The five dollars here or twenty dollars there. An extra bar or cookie to get you through the afternoon slump. Just one more episode of the latest binge-worthy TV show. All of those negative little tiny decisions at the moment will add up to negatively impact our lives in the long run.

Making negative little decisions will compound over time. We try to think that they won’t but they do. Those little tiny decisions compound into extra weight, decreased physical health, or missing a saving goal you’ve set for yourselves.

For me personally, an area that is a point of frustration is my little purchases. Amazon makes it so easy for me to spend five-dollar here or twenty dollars there. Thoughtless purchases that in the end do not add to my overall joy or happiness in my life.

Add up to overall stress

In fact, those impulsive purchases that at the moment I didn’t think much about and in the end actually add to my overall stress. Once I make that little tiny decision to buy now what other decisions will I need to make once it’s in my home? Will I truly love it or will it end up in the donation pile along with the guilt of money poorly spent. 

Do you see how little tiny decisions can add up to clutter in our homes and in our minds?

The regret lingers long after the action is done.

Little Tiny Decisions

What to do instead

As part of my self-coaching practice. I’m writing down all my negative little tiny decisions. Followed by, writing down what I will do next time instead.

Here is one of my entries, maybe you’ll be able to relate, maybe not.

I wish I hadn’t eaten the second bar. Now I feel sick. Next time, I’m going to pause. Remind me that one was so satisfying and it’s my thoughts trying to trick me. My thoughts. I’m good with just one bar. I’m proud of myself for saying no and sticking to only one.

Why write it down? 

By writing this down and what I want I’ll do next time. I'm working to reframe the way I think. In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) this is called a pattern interrupt.

What I’m doing is interrupting my current pattern of thinking to make what I feel are better little tiny decisions.

Even as I think about making better decisions I feel lighter, happier, at peace. It’s the feeling I want to carry with me all day long, every day.

Do you have areas in your life where your little decisions are starting to add up on you?

Are they adding up for the positive or the negative?

Have you given any thought to how they make you feel?

If you need that encouraging voice in your ear, the private coach to help you interrupt your current thought patterns. I invite you to apply to work with me. Here is the link. 

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Little Side Note

Waiting to Start? Procrastination Is Your Obstacle this is the topic for next week, be sure to mark your calendar or subscribe here to be notified.

✁ Just a Snippet 

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

  • The good, bad, and the ugly little decisions that you made and probably didn’t give it a second thought
  • All of those negative little tiny decisions at the moment will add up to negatively impact our lives in the long run.
  • Those little tiny decisions compound into extra weight, decreased physical health, or missing a saving goal you’ve set for yourselves.
  • Little tiny decisions can add up to clutter in our homes and in our minds
  • Write down all my negative little tiny decisions. Followed by, writing down what you will do next time instead.
  • What I’m doing is interrupting my current pattern of thinking to make what I feel are better little tiny decisions.

Private Coaching

Why do I believe in the power of private coaching?

Because it is truly life-changing. When your coach asks you that mind-blowing question that suddenly allows you to see what you've been missing all along that was literally right in front of your face.

You just need someone with a different perspective to help you see it.

Are you ready to experience life from a different perspective?

Spots Limited Apply Today!
Find Balance Digital Download
You should make more Mistakes

You should make more Mistakes

by | Online Business

I don’t know, but I can be super impatient at times. After all, it has become easier and easier to have everything at our fingertips. As a result, leaving us with the expectation that everything will come instantly. Because not everything comes to us instantly. Some things take time sometimes; you need to Make More Mistakes.

To be a Master of anything takes time.

While we want to be a master, we want to be a master right now. However, to become a master at anything takes time. In fact, it takes trial and error. It takes learning how to do things. Furthermore, each of our brains thinks and learns differently.

Yes! Learn from others

Absolutely, take the course and get the certification; yes, do that. In other words, I 100% believe that we ought to be a team and learn from others who have walked the path to reduce our personal struggles.

However, we also must walk on our own to experience mistakes and grow as individuals. When we make mistakes, it gives us feedback on what we should do differently.

Making more mistakes is feedback.

In truth, making mistakes and using feedback allows us to expand as people. For one thing, life would be way serious if we were always worried about being perfect. Am I right? 

You guessed it, I know this from personal experience; I take things way too seriously instead of looking at my mistakes as feedback and learning from the experience. 

I’ve had to learn to laugh at myself when I make mistakes and say, oh well. 

Let me ask

Is it necessary to always live on the serious side of life?

With this in mind, would it be better to step outside ourselves and look for the simple joy and happiness that life may have hidden in our mistakes? What if, instead, we look at mistakes as redirection to get us where we want to go?

Instead a light-hearted attempt to get us to know ourselves a little bit better. To not be so worried about what others think of us.

You should make more Mistakes

It’s okay to make more mistakes.

Now, this is important; it takes years to master skills. What comes along with that skill mastery is making mistakes.

That is the best way for us to learn.

Why does this work? Can you give me an example of a mistake that did not come with learning? 

As the saying goes, I’ll never make that mistake again. Stick with me now; mistakes shock us out of auto-pilot and back into the current moment. Besides, they allow us to laugh at ourselves to learn from our mistakes. To know better for next time. They lead to the life that we want to have. 

Don't get me wrong, there is comfort in the easy answers. Those mistakes, they’re the difference makers. That learning is the piece that I personally remember. It’s not the memorization of the subject. The mistakes that I made along the way gave the most fantastic feedback and learning.

Do you have an example in your life that instead of looking at the mistake as feedback, you chose to dwell in the mistake and beat yourself up mentally? What good did that do? The mistake is in the past; nothing you can do will change it. What you can do is take your new found knowledge from that mistake and do better the next time around. 

After all, life is about perception. How you choose to perceive it is up to you and only you. 

If you need a little help looking at life from a new perspective, I’ve got you. I help my private coaching clients do so. The link to work with me is right here or down below. 

You should make more Mistakes

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

  • We are so impatient. We want to have everything right now.
  • We want to be a master and not put in the work to be a master.
  • When we make mistakes, it gives us feedback on what we should do differently.
  • If we float through life without laughing at ourselves, what fun is that?
  • I know this from personal experience; I take things way too seriously. I’ve had to learn to laugh at myself when I make mistakes and say, oh well.
  • Is it better to step outside ourselves and look for the simple joy and happiness that life may have hidden in our mistake?
  • What if, instead, we look at mistakes as redirection to get us where we want to go?
  • A light-hearted attempt to get us to know ourselves a little bit better. To not be so worried about what others think of us.
  • It takes years to master skills; mistake-making comes with that skill mastery.
  • That is the best way for us to learn. It is the best feedback.
  • Can you give me an example of a mistake that did not come with learning?
  • There is comfort in the easy answers. Those mistakes are the difference makers. That learning is the piece you remember. It’s not the memorization of the subject but rather the mistakes that give the most memorable feedback and learning.

Private Coaching

Why do I believe in the power of private coaching?

Because it is truly life-changing. When your coach asks you that mind-blowing question that suddenly allows you to see what you've been missing all along that was literally right in front of your face.

You just need someone with a different perspective to help you see it.

Are you ready to experience life from a different perspective?

Spots Limited Apply Today!
Find Balance Digital Download