Summary: <p><strong>Welcome to Episode 10, a very short but profound one about Procrastination</strong></p> <p>If you feel overwhelmed today and decide you are going to postpone starting your business idea prep until things get better, easier, you have more money, you are less busy, the kids go back to school or there are 8 days in the week.</p> <p>Then,</p> <p>I would like to share a really apt paragraph from author Tim Ferris, who, in case you have no idea how famous he is, wrote <a href="https://amzn.to/2RmNBaX">the 4-hour workweek</a> several years ago and it is still one of the world’s top 10 business books to this day</p> <p><strong>He really has a handle on how most of us think when we promise ourselves we are going to start that business on Monday or the weekend or when we get home from work.</strong></p> <p>And I recommend you copy these words down somewhere so you can see them every day at home and keep a copy on you somewhere for when you have weak moments and need a reminder of where you want to be.</p> <p>These few words really rang true with me, so I wanted to share them with you</p> <p><em>Here is the magic paragraph about procrastination</em></p> <p>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p>T<strong>he stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time.</strong></p> <p><strong>The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either.</strong></p> <p><strong>Conditions are never perfect</strong></p> <p><strong>Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.</strong></p> <p><strong>Pro and con lists are just as bad.</strong></p> <p><strong>If it's important to you and you want to do it </strong><em><strong>'eventually</strong></em><strong>,’ just do it and correct course along the way.</strong></p> <p>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p>And that’s it in a nutshell, very simple really isn’t it…</p> <p>What exactly is it you are procrastinating about?</p> <p>To move forward, right now, promise yourself you will organise your thoughts then press the start button in your mind, even if only for 5 or 10 minutes or half an hour today and not wait for tomorrow or the weekend.</p> <p>Give up that time watching TV or scrolling through your social media today just for those few minutes and work on your business idea instead.</p> <p>Ridiculous as it sounds the minutes really start to add up.</p> <p>If you do 10 minutes every day, that is over 1 hour you have found in a week where you have said, <em>I just don't have any time spare</em>, which can then become half a day a month.</p> <p>If you don’t change you’re thinking you will regret you never started on the path towards your dream...</p> <p>You can do anything you want to you know, you just have to want to!</p> <p>And if you find yourself really struggling with procrastination, I will suggest you listen to my previous podcast or read up from my website, in the article section about the topic of<a href="https://www.createyourperfectbusiness.co.uk/the-obstacle-analysis-grid.html"> Obstacle Analysis.</a></p> <p>If you find you are dragging your feet but you can’t quite put a handle on why you will probably benefit from creating an obstacle analysis grid and giving yourself a name to your problem.</p> <p><em>That way you will be able to do something about it instead of procrastinating!</em></p> <p><a href="https://www.createyourperfectbusiness.co.uk/procrastination.html">I also answered a reader's question about this topic on my website </a></p> <p><strong>Mentioned in this episode:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/2RmNBaX">Tim Ferris - The 4 Hour Work Week (updated)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.createyourperfectbusiness.co.uk/the-obstacle-analysis-grid.html">The Obstacle Analysis Grid</a></li> </ul> <p><br></p> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/createyourperfectbusiness/message
