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Diminishing The Value Of Success

One can diminish the value of an achievement so that non-accomplishment isn’t a big issue.

One also falls into a self-fulfilling prophecy, that if one isn’t interested in doing a task, that task must not be interesting or important enough in the first place. This leads us to switch our goals, leading to excuses and missed opportunities.

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Our Unrealistic Expectations Of Doing Things Perfectly

Our Unrealistic Expectations Of Doing Things Perfectly

Life isn’t black and white, but in a shade of grey. Our expectations about doing things perfectly and wanting the results in absolute terms is often unrealistic and hinders our progress.

We need to take the first step and get used to action, without being stressed up about...

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The Speed Of Action

We usually want to take action as fast as we can, but with important decisions, we tend to wait and research more so that we can check the options and not make any mistakes.

The preparation time we need is often fear-based because we don’t want to mess up ...

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Procrastination And Wanting To Avoid Loss

Loss aversion is a big reason for fearing to do a project. Making progress sounds great, but correcting mistakes and counting your losses seems like an avoidable activity.

We want things to be perfect, and bad days are not really motivating for us. We need...

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Flinch

Flinch

  • Fear is a natural and common emotion even with full-preparedness.
  • Whenever we do something that leads us towards growth, there is a certain kind of resistance and discomfort known as ‘flinch’.
  • This kind of fear happens to us when we are about to give a live public appearan...

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Overcoming The Fear Of Failure

People can lose time, money, respect, resources among other things when faced with failure, and that leads to fear-based procrastination. We need to keep in mind that mistakes happen, and only with action and errors does one learn something and moves towards growth.

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Procrastination And Making Excuses

Procrastination And Making Excuses

There is a denial of procrastination, where we are telling ourselves that we are working as we should and there is no problem at all. The valid justifications we make to cover the problem or delay is essentially an excuse.

We make excuses as it is a valid cover to ...

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Procrastination And The Fear Of Failure

Recent studies on procrastination seems to suggest that the fear of failure could be a core reason for postponing tasks, as it is hard to:

  1. Amend mistakes.
  2. Lack of expected progress even with the effort being put.
  3. A wasted day having a spillover effe...

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Fear And Procrastination: The Thing We Have Not Done Before

Fear And Procrastination: The Thing We Have Not Done Before

  • We mistakenly think that if something feels difficult and out of our comfort zone, then it is not ‘us’, paving the way for resistance.
  • The task is difficult because we haven’t done it before, and avoiding it only hinders our growth.
  • Inversely, anything looks easy when you ...

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Procrastination: The How And Why

Procrastination: The How And Why

We usually procrastinate instead of being productive due to various reasons like having fun being distracted (like playing video games) or just lounging around as the task is too easy (or too difficult).

We start with a big, audacious goal and quickly realize that it is not feasible. Our l...

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Not Wanting A New Challenge

Not Wanting A New Challenge

We think we have worked all these years and achieved a certain level, and attempting something new and outrageously out of our league will make us into a ‘newbie’, something learning the ropes and making mistakes.

Getting out of our comfort zones may not feel ‘comfy’ but i...

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