A coach notices that entrepreneurs he works with create chaos right after achieving stability, whether through a new baby, home remodel, or scrapping a working marketing campaign. He traces this pattern back to his own extreme procrastination, which vanishes under deadline pressure, suggesting some people need disruption to feel alive.
I had like 2 months to write this speech and every day I'd open the notebook and the words just would not come. And then this week as the deadline starts looming, all of a sudden I cranked this thing out in 1 day. And the irony is that it's probably better because I had that stress and I cranked it out in that 1 day, right? I'm gonna perform better. But how can we recognize when we're starting to go down this path of self-sabotage? You guys, I see this all the time with entrepreneurs that I coach. Finally get to a stable, safe place, and this happens in their personal life as well. Have a new baby, let's remodel the house, let's adopt a puppy. In business, finally hit our first profitable month, let's launch a new product. Get to a place where you have some safe operating margin, let's hire some new employees, let's move to a new office. Let's scrap our marketing campaign and start from scratch, right? We love injecting chaos because that's actually where we feel the most comfortable.
