If your procrastination is making a mess of your life and you do not understand why, you are not alone, and you’re not a bad person. You can overcome procrastination.

by

Angie Dixon1

If you are a chronic procrastinator, you can tell many stories about the devastation of procrastination. You have probably sat for hours at your desk, knowing that you need to work on a project, while your boss or client waited, blowing a big deadline, but incapable of doing the necessary work. Not just unwilling to work, but simply incapable of moving and doing the work required. Does that sound familiar?

You know what I mean, right?. I’m sure you’ve also had this experience, of you’re going to lose the project, your client is going to pull the project, maybe that you’re going to lose your job, or that you will have to repay a deposit, or that you’re going to lose a deposit you’ve already spent, or that you’re not going to get paid, but you cannot do the work, no matter how hard you try. Even knowing the consequences, you do not move. You cannot move.

When I had these experiences, I used the term, “my life is a train wreck,” believed my life was just a train wreck, and I often felt like “wreck” was the perfect description, because my life was literally falling apart. I felt completely out of control of my life.

The weird thing was, I was behaving like someone with a serious problem. A drug addict or alcoholic, or someone having a “nervous breakdown”.But those things weren’t going on. I wasn’t melting down, I just wasn’t acting like myself. I wasn’t getting my work done, because I couldn’t, but I didn’t know why I couldn’t.

Procrastination was wrecking my life, and it wasn’t just a little bad habit, but no one else understood this. They could see the train wreck, but they couldn’t see the cause. They could see me self-destructing, but to them it was just me not doing what I should.

I had to learn for myself that this was not just laziness or my needing to “get off my butt.” I had to study procrastination, learn techniques to stop it, and learn to understand how goal-setting, time management, stress reduction and decisions could help beat procrastination.

But I beat procrastination, and it can be beaten. I want you to know that your life does not have to stay off the rails.

Angie Dixon, a writer and personal development expert, is the author of

Procrastinate Later

, a multi-faceted program for people who are ready to overcome procrastination. Learn more about Procrastinate Later, and read the Procrastinate Later blog at the main Procrastinate Later website, http://www.helpforprocrastination.net

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If your procrastination is making a mess of your life and you do not understand why, you are not alone, and you’re not a bad person. You can overcome procrastination.