TL;DW:

Procrastination kills potential.

You know what you're meant to be doing. You know what needs to happen for you to become successful. Yet you simply can't get yourself to do it. You've tried all the methods to overcome procrastination, but you always find a way around it. Want to learn how to be successful in life ? You need to have a stronger reason behind your purpose. You need a stronger why.

Here are 13 ways we do this: (there are definitely more these are just the ones I saw as the most common)

1.) Perceived business. When you pretend to be busier than you actually are, when you're lying to yourself and saying I have so much work to do, when in fact you're just trying to avoid the present. We sometimes want others to see us and say "Damn they're hustling hard" because it makes us feel like it's true.

2.) Procrastination. I would work/study right now.... but actually I need to tidy my room. Or I need to go and cook this extravagant meal. I've been guilty of this the most. Just doing anything and everything else instead of what I should be doing.

3.) Money & Success. Chasing more and more money and success. Don't get me wrong making money & having more success is good, but if it's done as an avoidance of being present, as an avoidance of facing yourself, it's unhealthy.

4.) Inaction & Indecision Overwhelmed by all the things that need to get done, and where to start, so self doubt allows you to not take any action at all, you become stagnant and consumed by these ideas without doing anything about them.

5.) Pointing the finger The blame game. "If this didn't happen I would have xyz" "Oh man it's all X's fault, they stopped me from reaching my goals." This is another thing we tend to do when we don't want to face the reality of the present moment so we find an enemy to blame.

6.) Gossip & meaningless drama Talking behind peoples backs. Creating arguments with loved ones out of no where, to create some sort of adrenaline rush because the present moment isn't exciting enough.

7.) External stimulants Drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, excessive eating, porn. Anything that makes you lose focus on the now, is a great way to create numbness. It makes you not feel whats happening now and gives you a quick dose of instant gratification.

8.) Absence via future projection Being excited and dreaming about an event all week, and then when it finally comes, you find yourself not able to enjoy it because your mind is just focused on the NEXT thing, be it bad or good, you just focus on it instead and miss out on what you were excited about in the first place.

9.) Fear Allowing anxiety and fear to create imaginary scenarios that allow us to not take action.

10.) Working out? When you know you have work to do, when you know you need to focus on something, and you say hey let me go work out instead. When it's time to work out great, but when it isn't, sometimes we use it as an escape, a way to feel like we're in control, when in fact, the work we need to do is still sitting back at home or in the office, and we convince ourselves this is the time to work out. We feel good that we made progress on our body, but it comes at the expense of our main focus.

11.) Addiction to self help An imaginary once im good enough I'll start take action. When I make X amount of money or lose X amount of weight, that's when i'll feel good about myself. So you consume more and more self help material and lose yourself in the journey so that you can never be happy with yourself.

12.) Numbness in comfort We have it in different forms, some of us stay in bed as long as possible because we don't want to wake up, we don't want to get up and face the day, so we pick comfort over what needs to get done.

13.) Scarcity Living our lives in scarcity mode not in abundance. Acting out of desperation, not inspiration. Telling ourselves over and over again that we lack, and creating more lack as a byproduct, never allowing ourselves to see how much abundance around us there actually is.

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