If you struggle with procrastination, do this.

17 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Clegg argues procrastination stems from anxiety about future failure, not laziness. Instead of fighting the urge to delay, shift your focus by imagining success and asking yourself empowering questions like "How awesome is this going to be when it works?" rather than dwelling on what could go wrong.

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If you struggle with procrastination, you definitely want to do this. And the reason I said definitely want to do this is because procrastination is not actually a problem. It's not actually a real struggle. It's just the symptom of a problem and the symptom of a struggle. What's the real struggle? The real struggle is anxiety. The reason we put things off is because we think they're not going to work. Anxiety is wasting present energy on a future outcome that's undesirable to me. And so when I'm expecting something not to work, I do not have the ability to put all of my effort in it. I may not have the ability to put any of my effort in it. And so if I want to overcome procrastination, the thing I must do, I must play a different mental movie than the one I'm playing when I'm seeing it not work out. How do I do that? Ask better questions. Instead of saying, what if this doesn't work out? Ask this question. How awesome is this going to be when it works? Congratulations. Procrastination solved.