✅ The Stop Procrastinating & Just Get Started Checklist (Overview)
How to Overcome Resistance and Make Getting Started Easy (and Enjoyable)
Procrastination is Killing Your Creative Potential
Without addressing it, your creative momentum becomes more of an unpleasant start-and-stop than a steady stream of progress rushing toward the ultimate realization of your creative ideas.
Not only is procrastination bad for the objective completion of your projects, but it also chips away at your creative confidence and self-belief.
The more you procrastinate the more you get entrenched in a negative feedback loop.
When you continually delay your creative work, you’ll feel guilty or anxious, which in turn can further discourage you from starting, creating a cycle of avoidance.
☠️Left unchecked, procrastination is the #1 killer of your creative potential.
So, check yourself before you wreck yourself.
This is an overview and outline of what you will find in my free The Stop Procrastinating and Just Get Started Checklist.
Use The Stop Procrastinating and Just Get Started Checklist and the information in this series on procrastination to help you move your ideas from concept to completion.
It may mean the difference between keeping your most meaningful ideas stuck inside your head or actually bringing them to life.
*NOTE: Stay tuned as I add links to more in-depth Medium articles below.
What You’ll Find in the ✅ The Stop Procrastinating & Just Get Started Checklist (and Medium Article Series)
This free guide breaks down into four extensive sections, each addressing different aspects of procrastination, particularly as they apply to creative entrepreneurs.
Here’s a sneak peek into what you’ll find:
1 — The Stop Procrastinating and Just Get Started Checklist (Diagnostic Tool)
This diagnostic tool will help you understand why you procrastinate and how to break free from it.
You will use this checklist to quickly diagnose: a) why you’re procrastinating — and, b) what to do next to overcome your resistance.
*Click through to get a walkthrough of how to break through your procrastination using this diagnostic tool.
2 — Why You Procrastinate as a Creative Entrepreneur
This section digs deeper into additional specific reasons that creatives often find themselves battling procrastination more than others.
You’ll explore your Procrastinator Type, why you might be prone to procrastinate in certain phases of the creative process (and not others), and more.
*Learn more about how procrastination shows up for creators and creative entrepreneurs.
3 — Bad Procrastination Advice (and What to Do Instead)
There is a lot of unhelpful advice out there for creative entrepreneurs regarding procrastination and overcoming resistance.
*In this article (and section within the free guide), I debunk some common, yet ineffective advice about overcoming procrastination, replacing it with proven strategies.
4 — Quick Tips — Strategies to Overcome Procrastination and Just Get Started
Dive into my lightning round of research-based and practical strategies to obliterate procrastination, and supercharge your creativity.
Discover the power of ‘Temptation Bundling,’ to transform resistance into fun, ‘Implementation Intentions’ for automated behavior, the ‘Pomodoro Technique’ to boost focus, and ‘Gamifying Your Work’ for engaging productivity.
*These tools can help you end procrastination and put you in control of your creative momentum.
Overcome Your Resistance to Your Creative Work: Stop Procrastinating. Just Get Started.
👉Grab your free copy of The Stop Procrastinating and Just Get Started Checklist.
⚡️Use this checklist to quickly diagnose: a) why you’re procrastinating — and, b) what to do next to overcome your resistance.
When you get the free checklist, you’ll also get a free mini-course via email to help you tackle the checklist in bits and pieces (it’s pretty comprehensive)
Let me know what questions you have.
*NOTE: I’ll be updating this document with more internal links to Medium articles digging deeper into the complex psychological phenomenon that is procrastination.
More About Coach Jeff
My name is Jeff Fajans (rhymes with “lions”) and I help creative entrepreneurs bring their biggest ideas to life and reach their next level of creative success.
I have a PhD in Positive Organizational Psychology from Claremont Graduate University, where I studied under Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the world-renowned author of Flow. My research focused on how to help people learn, develop, and lead more effectively to better achieve creative goals.
I am also an avid music creator and guitar player. 🤘
Through my 1-on-1 coaching, 30-Day Creative Momentum Challenge community, internationally acclaimed digital courses, and speaking engagements, I’ve helped thousands of people from around the world connect with their purpose, clarify their creative vision, amplify their motivation, and create actionable strategies that make achieving their most meaningful goals inevitable.
These are people who are pursuing big goals like starting or leading a business (and scaling it to higher levels of innovation & growth), writing + filming a feature film (and it winning a Sundance award), building an app or product (and getting accepted into Y Combinator or getting VC funding), writing a book (and hitting the Amazon bestseller list) or even exploring a meaningful side hustle or passion project.
