How to overcome procrastination, free yourself from the overwhelm that keeps you stuck in the procrastination cycle that’s sabotaging your success What is procrastination? What triggers procrastination and why do many sensitive people or those with sensory processing challenges get caught up the procrastination cycle.
What Is Procrastination?
Procrastionation is a pattern of delay; putting off or postponing essential tasks, not doing things that need to be done even though there will be reprecussions, blowback or disadvantages to not doing these tasks.
Myths Around Procrastination
Many people assume procrastination is laziness when in reality procrastination is wanting to do something but being so overwhelmed by the triggers; the feelings or response it brings up to due to a struggle with self-regulation.
Understanding What Triggers Procrastination
Procrastination is usually triggered by emotional discomfort; the anxiety, stress or trauma response we have to certain task characteristics. For example when the task is something that takes us out of our comfort zone; something we don’t find easy, or a task that seems to difficult, big or complicated, or requires to behave a certain way.
We are more likely to suffer procrastination when we are already mentally, emotionally or physically exhausted, overwhelmed, feeling depressed, suffering from grief or dealing with trauma.
Because highly sensitive people, empaths, people with sensory processing challenges or those suffering from PTSD or CPTSD are more easily overwhelmed, they are more likely to fall into the procrastination cycle.
That is why it is important for people who get easily overwhelmed by the world around them to do what they can to regulate their nervous system and find healthier ways to manage certain tasks.
How To Overcome Procrastination – Stop The Procrastination Cycle
Understand Your Personal Triggers
To overcome procrastination it is useful to understand and recognise your own personal triggers. Understand that your triggers are simply feelings and fears you are trying to avoid. Anxiety and fears, that if left unchecked move into chronic procrastinating.
Name What Your Actually Feeling
Naming out loud what you actually feel helps reduce the emotional intensity because it shifts focus from the emotional centre of the brain into the rational part of the brain.
Reset Your Nervous System
Learn how to reset your mind, your body and nervous system off the overwhelm into the relaxed response, into more calm and clarity.
This will make it much easier to recover from and overcome procrastination in your everyday life.
Reverse Engineer The Tasks You Are Putting Off
Learn how to reverse engineer and break down the tasks you have been avoiding into smaller actionable steps to overcome procrastination and the overwhelm that leads to chronic procrastination and self-sabotage.
You can learn now in my Free Mini Training – Break The Procrastination Cycle – A Nervous System Reset + Reverse Engineering Tool to help you stop procrastination in your life, business and relationships.
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