Quick Therapy for Procrastinators

Procrastinators, you may not need therapy. You may not need to understand why you procrastinate. In fact, I would hazard to say that trying to figure out why you procrastinate may be just another form of procrastination. (Of course, there are also some fairly serious issues that can cause procrastination that do require treatment from a licensed mental health practitioner.)

Now if you are attached to understanding why you procrastinate before you will even be willing to move forward, then pick a reason and move on. Yes. Pick a reason! Make one up! We make up all our interpretations anyway, so make it good. Here is an example: I procrastinate because my mind is actually busy working on figuring out the best way to do something. I am not actually procrastinating at all. I am simply “off-line”. There! That was easy.

If you prefer a gloomier outlook you could decide that the reason you procrastinate is because you have a deep-rooted fear of failure that stems from the harsh judgments of your parents. OK. That is a fine reason if it works for you. It may or may not be true, but I am not interested in that. I am interested in how you choose to live now.

OK. That was the therapy part. You have just completed your therapy. Now that you understand why you procrastinate, you are free to choose to do otherwise. Now that you have decided on a reason for your procrastination are you now willing to do something about it? I’ll wait here a second…

But, wait! There is some pie left in the fridge. Yummers! We’ll have to tackle this procrastination later….

More to come…