EXORCISING PROCRASTINATION AND OVERWHELM
This blog post is in response to Natalie’s 10 Day Freedom Plan Blog Challenge Day 7
Desires are mental images in our makeup. They are longings! Depending on our primary temperament, we may achieve them early or belatedly based on when we take action or refrain from taking action.
If you’re primarily melancholic in temperament, perfectionism will surely build a fortress in you. The fear of mistakes makes the melancholic refrain from taking action when necessary. He feels that his mistakes will place him at the mercy of his critics rather than receiving their commendation.
To counteract this feeling, the melancholic sets out to consume all available information on a subject without taking action. This information overload in turn overwhelms him; leading him to procrastinate. This can be expressed mathematically as follows:
Perceived perfectionism + Information overload + Overwhelm + Procrastination = Inaction.
The melancholic fails to understand that procrastination is the thief of time. It’s the lazy man’s apology.
My experience within Days 1–6 of Natalie’s 10 Day Freedom Plan Blog Challenge exposed me to, that, imperfect little consistent actions taken are far better than a perfect idea in the mind.
Sticking to the #10DBC as my #freedomplan, assisted me in achieving two imperfect processes:
FOCUS.
WRITE FIRST, THEN EDIT LATER.
In a bid to keep pace with the challenge, I was able to focus my entire mindset on my response to each day’s Blog Challenge. With this goal in mind, my concentration becomes legendary. For the first time, I was able to internally shut myself and refused to be distracted by either social media or any other thing not necessarily incidental to the day’s challenge until I’m done with the day’s response.
Allowing myself to embrace imperfection as a realistic fact of life enabled me to produce imperfect works as evidenced in my responses to Days 1–6 of the blog post challenge.
Without pressure from within me, I was at ease in a dignified and relaxed mindset to participate and produce blog posts responses without fear of criticisms.
It’s even interesting to note that the blog post challenge prizes didn’t even put pressure on me!
My mindset is that, with or without the prizes, the challenge is my #freedomplan to beating procrastination and overwhelm. It’s a win-win situation for me. I made this clear at the beginning of the challenge.
The challenge is gradually getting to its conclusion with just 3 days left. I’ve exorcised procrastination and overwhelm these past days and I intend to continue. It remains a lifetime commitment to daily write in order to beating this dreaded double-threat.
Can I really continue to keep the pace?
Yes, I can because I already have an immediate focus.
My immediate focus is the adventure promised in Day 8 of the challenge which is a secret for now. I can’t really wait to welcome Day 8.
I’m very inquisitive. What’s even embedded in Day 8? What is Natalie arranging for us behind the scenes?
I can be very curious. Yes, I can be, even though, it’s said that curiosity killed the cat. Will I die of curiosity? No! I won’t die. I’m not a cat. I’ll be patient. It’s only a matter of few hours to herald the arrival of Day 8.
Let’s head off to Day 8 and have fun. It promises to be adventurous!