4. Procrastination Exploration – What is your procrastination costing you? Do you have a procrastination reputation? Do you continually have to make procrastination explanations or reparations to others? Are you in procrastination isolation so nobody will know what you’re not doing? Is your credit history in procrastination degradation because of paying bills late? Are you in procrastination desperation because you might lose your job or significant relationships? Sometimes understanding how badly you’re paying and in exactly what ways can provoke you to seek assistance.

3. Procrastination Consultation – Talk with friends about how they overcame procrastination. Buddy with them on their own projects, holding each other accountable to get things done. Hire a procrastination coach, someone who has worked with hundreds of people and not only knows about procrastination generation, but has helped many veteran procrastinators with procrastination renunciation.

2. Procrastination Transformation – nothing helps you achieve more easily than knowing all steps you need to take, having a plan to take them, scheduling that plan into your calendar, creating incentives to make following through more attractive (and consequences to make it less attractive!), and putting some accountability supports into place. This, combined with a simple procrastination meditation, will get you back on track quickly and easily.

1. Procrastination Emancipation – Once you’ve fully understood that one of big reasons you have been procrastinating is that you’re focusing only on finishing (and that’s too daunting) you’ll begin to instead concentrate on starting, which is a much more approachable and manageable way to get thing done. All you need to do is keep starting, and finishing will take care of itself.

Centerfielder Johnny Damon exemplifies this. Prior to this game, he was hitting a dismal .108 for series. Then he hit two home runs including a grand slam.

Will anyone in all of New England remember his batting average for first 6 games?

The Red Sox players prepared for this game in an unusual way.

They did not take batting practice.

Instead, they watched “Miracle on Ice,” movie about amazing gold medal performance of 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, still considered one of most stunning upsets in sports history.

At some point, you are ready. You know what to do.

The rest is focus and inspiration.

And that’s more important than batting practice.

Copyright 2004 by Tony Papajohn Tony writes and speaks on success. Subscribe to his free SuccessMotivator e-zine at http://www.successmotivator.com