Procrastinators Are Mired in Self Doubt

Everyone is familiar with procrastination. You decide to put something off for just another day before getting around to it. When that day rolls around, you push it back again and again until it’s almost too late.

While some might think this is caused just by laziness, there’s actually another significant factor in play: self-doubt. While it might not be obvious at first, one of the biggest reasons that people put things off for so long is that they’re not really confident in themselves.

They’re almost afraid of failing to the point that they decide to postpone it altogether for as long as they can. This can save you a tiny bit of discomfort, but it’ll quickly build up stress because you have less and less time to accomplish the task you’re delaying.

There are some times when you really don’t feel ready to tackle something, and you never really do feel fully ready. The solution isn’t to just put it off forever until you get some kind of mysterious boost in confidence that’ll help you overcome it, but rather to just leave your fears and your doubts behind and tackle whatever it is you’re working towards head on.

You can start off just doing the little things without procrastinating. When it’s time to do some work around your home, don’t keep putting it off to watch TV or something.

Once you get in the groove of learning how to just put your foot down and do something, you’ll feel a lot more comfortable doing the same thing with larger tasks.

Building that foundation of self-trust and inner strength is important for so many reasons. Not only will it help you be more productive by stopping your procrastination, but it’ll also help you be more confident in any decisions you make.

Those basic skills of being able to trust in your own abilities can be applied in a wide range of different places. This isn’t to say that a bit of planning or a bit of waiting is a bad thing.

Sometimes it can be advantageous to wait a little bit until the time is just right or to get a better idea of how you should go about something. However, that’s not the same thing as procrastinating, which is just putting something off until another day just because you don’t feel confident in doing it.

Perfectionism Kills Productivity

Being productive can be a major challenge for anyone who’s trying their best to be successful. There’s only so much time in each day to accomplish the things you want to do, so you need to be efficient in order to get as much done as possible.

However, productivity can often be made more difficult by certain characteristics, especially perfectionism. Being a perfectionist means that you won’t be satisfied with your work until it’s flawless in every way in your eyes.

You cannot fail in anything that you do, because that would be a mark on your record. You’ll accept nothing except the absolute best, no matter what. This isn’t the worst quality in the world, but it absolutely kills your productivity.

In order to be productive, you have to be able to accept a few minor kinks in your work. Taking the time to go through again and again and iron out anything that’s wrong with your work takes up so much time that could be spent on getting more work done.

Eventually, you’ll have missed out on so much time that it starts to cost you. One of the most important things that perfectionists have to realize is that while successful people may seem like they’re faultless at times, they’re really not.

Many had humble beginnings that involved a lot of trial and error, and they almost always failed in a few of their projects. It’s beyond rare for someone to have worked their way up to success while maintaining a perfect record across the board.

What you might see as imperfect and a failure is perfectly acceptable to others. They won’t understand why you’re wasting time changing things when they’re just fine as they currently are.

Another reason that perfectionism can hurt your productivity is that it creates a lot of unnecessary stress. By always worrying about putting things out that are absolutely flawless, you’ll be scrambling and stressing trying to fix the smallest of details that most people would generally overlook.

Additionally, by getting all worked up, your work will probably be less perfect as time goes on when you start to make irrational decisions. Having quality control in your work is a great thing, and you should practice it, but you should practice it within reason.

Everything you do doesn’t have to be the pinnacle of your career or personal life. Learn how to balance your desire for quality work and your time to be able to work more on things that you’re passionate about.

Fear of Rejection Will Block Your Success

The fear of failure is so strong in many people that it effectively reduces their chances of success overall. People are worried so much about rejection or coming up short that they don’t even try, which some see as worse than failure.

As the famous saying goes, you miss all of the shots you don’t take. A very common scenario for this, especially among younger people, is asking people out on a date. They get all caught up in their thoughts and are so worried about being rejected that they avoid any negative feelings entirely by just not trying in the first place.

This type of thinking might save you from some short term stress or sadness, but it won’t do a thing for you in the long run. After some time, you’ll start to run into some deep seeded regrets about having not acted because you were too scared.

These are the types of things that will keep you up at night a few years down the line, with the question always picking at you, “What if…?” Having all of these long running regrets can really put an extra hindrance on your success.

Essentially, all you’re doing is putting off that short term sadness if you get rejected and turning it into long term regret. If you decided to buckle down and go for it - and you did end up getting rejected - you’ll likely be over it in a day or two, maybe a week or two at most.

On the flip side, if you have regrets about not having done something, those can last for years on end, and it’s much worse knowing you can’t go back and do anything about it. By deciding to be inactive instead of pursuing your goals vigorously, you’re closing the door on the vast majority of opportunities presented to you.

Nobody achieves success because it just happens to fall into their laps. They really dig for it. Not one successful person out there hasn’t had their fair share of failures. Having a record that isn’t spotless doesn’t make you a failure overall.

Even if it takes you hundreds of attempts to get something right, the important part is that you got it right in the end - and that you kept on trying despite your failures. If anything, overcoming these failures makes you a stronger person and makes that success so much more satisfying to achieve.

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