Beat Procrastination: Unlock Your Potential & Help Others | @caroline-cavanagh | Anxiety

23 May 2025 · 1 min

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Caroline Cavanagh traces procrastination to anxiety about producing something foolish. When someone called her selfish for hoarding her ideas, she reframed sharing as generous: a keynote reaches hundreds instead of one person at a time. Overcoming the fear to speak or write becomes both personal victory and service.

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Procrastination is just a posh word for anxiety. Because I feared that if I wrote a book and it was crap, I'd look like a mug. Yeah? And the thing that flipped it was someone saying to me one day, Caroline, you are such a selfish bitch because you can only work with so many people a day and all that stuff is in your head. If you put it on paper, other people, a lot of other people can get it. And suddenly not writing a book was selfish. Yeah, so the book and that premise, I guess, of keeping stuff in my head and only working with people one-to-one also relates to going on a stage. So by going on a stage and delivering a keynote, a training session in an organization, I've then shared some of that stuff in my head and given the same tools to more people. So it's selfish not to do it, and the fact that I absolutely love it is just a bonus.