This week’s guest post comes from Monika Mundell’s Freelance Writing blog. I love when I find articles that echo the principles of Someday Syndrome. It makes my job of helping you clear the somedays from your life that much easier. 
Enjoy!
Is your business stuck because your tend to procrastinate? If so, join the crowd. If we were to believe this article, then around 95% of the population tends to indulge in procrastination from time to time.
What’s worse is that when we are already stuck in a mental hell hole we are the worst candidates for this mental disease. At least that is what I call it.
Procrastination stops us from having so much fun, achieving so many things and yet, we keep doing it. Why is it that we have this nasty, self sabotaging habit seemingly built into ourselves?
Do you know the answer? I certainly don’t. What I do know though is that there is a way to make the transition from major procrastinator to action junkie (OK, perhaps not to those extremes, but I’m sure you know what I mean).
If you are the classic type of self sabotage - action - self sabotage -action person then you need to determine why it is you are doing this. Often it is because we fear something. The most common fears associated with procrastination are:
Are you perhaps seeing one of those in your own reasons to procrastinate? If you do, then take action now by taking super-small steps toward the other end of the spectrum.
When we are buried in clutter, we usually say “I don’t know where to start” and give up before we even get going. Instead we should say, “lets do this” and start in one corner. Soon enough we see progress and this is the biggest kick we can experience to keep going.
The same applies when we try to lose weight. We mull over our bellies, the pants we don’t fit into anymore and the sexy clothes we can’t wear anymore. Therefore we tend to hide our bodies from the world and it gets worse and worse as we keep indulging into comfort foods to make us feel better.
Unfortunately those feelings are only superficial. They are not really real and last a mere few minutes before the guilt returns. If you do this, know this; unless you get out there and become physically active AND change your diet, things will only get worse.
I should know because I have been at that junction only a couple of months ago. I had only two choices at the time:
Guess what I did?
I’m happy to announce that I not only lost a lot of weight, but I feel fantastic and get a lot of compliments from friends about my improved looks. Does this mean I am were I want to be health wise?
No, but I know that I can do this as long as I keep travelling on that road I chose. That knowledge gives me power to continue, because in the end it is worth it - I will have gained my life and health back!
I urge you to never under-estimate the small steps in anything you are trying to achieve. I’m living proof that it can be done - in many areas of life, not just with weightloss and health.
Remember, success starts with a small step and plenty of repetition.
Good luck and let’s do this!
Monika’s Freelance Writing is about sharing the knowledge of making money on the Internet. It is about blogging, freelancing, affiliate marketing and Internet marketing and helping you to establish yourself as the unique person you deserve to be.
7 Responses to “Biting the bullet for massive action”
Leave a Reply
Please join in the conversation and leave a comment - I’d love to hear from you!
I think it’s brilliant to remark on the small steps being bigger than you think. It’s always seemed to me that we think we should be doing more, more, more but it’s the small things that make the difference.
Joely Black (@TheCharmQuark on Twitter)´s last blog post..My inner self smokes and other stories
My sister and I have a version of this strategy that we call “micro-tasking”, where, when overwhelmed, you break a task down into the smallest steps imaginable to get you going. For example, finding and opening a relevant document counts as one task completed. It’s amazing how motivating this mental trick can be.
Roving Lemon´s last blog post..Slow learning
Small steps are a very good way to make big changes many times.
For instance - with physical fitness. Nobody gains 50 pounds overnight - and the inverse is true, nobody loses it that fast.
We didn’t learn to walk and talk and do math and science and write or whatever in 6 months. It took many years.
Perhaps if we can look back from where we came once in a while, see how far we’ve come and realize that it was done via a lot of small steps… that’s a good way to encourage us to take just that next small step.
Brett Legree´s last blog post..viking fridays - a story of give and take.
@ Joely: I agree with you. I learned over the years that looking at the smaller things brings me actually further in my various quests than simply trying to bite a bullet that is too big.
Thank you for commenting.
@ Roving Lemon: Micro-tasking sounds really cool. And it works doesn’t it. I think sometimes we forget to give ourselves a pat on the back thinking too much at the big picture rather than the small steps we have achieved in the interim.
Great to see others who feel the same way.
@ Brett: Nice how you put this my friend and so true. I loved your example of learning to walk.
@ Alex: Thank you once again for the honor of re-publishing my post on your blog.
Monika Mundell´s last blog post..Biting The Bullet For Massive Action
Hey Monika! Thanks for your insightful post
I agree it’s all about taking the small actions - we often overthink and overcomplicate the tasks we need to do. I mention this quite often in my blog. When we start with the first step, we will naturally roll into a momentum to do the whole task. Great work! 
Celes | EmbraceLiving.Net´s last blog post..Are You Emotionally Generous?
Thanks Monika - it is actually something I remind myself of almost daily, while I work out my own ideas for self-employment, and work towards moving overseas.
I say to myself, “it won’t happen overnight, but that’s okay - it will happen, with small determined steps”.
Or I’ll just watch my children. Same thing - they can do so much, a little at a time. They just know how to do this intuitively.
Brett Legree´s last blog post..viking fridays - a story of give and take.
@ Celes: No worries, thank you for your feedback. Now I’ve found a new blog to add to my reader too. See you around.
@ Brett: I think kids do this naturally because they still don’t have any real conception of time. Instead of fighting it (like we adults keep doing) they just enjoy each day as it comes.
I often think back on my own kids days and wish I could live without the time pressures and responsibilities of an adult.
Monika Mundell´s last blog post..Biting The Bullet For Massive Action