Procrastination and the Fear of Failure

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How to overcome procrastination in daily life – professionally and personally? There are a number of correct answers to this question, the most popular and widely accepted to be, “Well, you simply just do it.”

As anyone who has gone through this same issue (and still have their moments of unwavering productivity), they have actually found that it often has to do with a deeper issue…

The fear of failure

It’s very easy to procrastinate when finishing the project means putting yourself out there — whether that be to a teacher, a boss, a group of peers, or to the infinite universe of the Internet.

Finishing a project means standing by it, and letting it represent you.

You point at this thing and you say, “I made this. I did this.”

And the rest of the world looks at it and says, “They made this. They did this. That’s her/him.”

It’s easy to be motivated and excited in the beginning of a project because you know you’re “going through the learning phase.” Half the high comes from making mistakes and learning from them.

It’s the ending that forces you to come down, plant your feet back in reality, and say to yourself, “Ok, so how does this thing look compared to everything in the real world? And more importantly, does this thing really represent who I am?”

Usually, they’ll finish, and immediately upon looking at what they have made, think to their self, “I could make better.” That’s the endless process.

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And for many of us, the reason we keep our projects hidden from the world.

We wait for that thing that we will finish and it will stand to represent the best part of us, the very best part, the part that one day we can only hope to become. Instead, it doesn’t. It represents the best part of us that was yesterday, and our quest continues. Just stop procrastinating because you should realize that it was one’s ego trying to fool them, out of fear.

When you bring awareness to the process, you can actually hear that part of yourself (many writers, for example, refer to their inner critics as their parents, scolding them for writing something “wrong”), trying to keep you from moving forward.

It’s just plain and simple fear. Though, it is not ever plain and never simple. It’s a fear of rejection and being wrong and not being good enough. So, just stop thinking too much and go ahead to take that first step towards that seemingly mind-bending task/project and find out that the first step is the beginning to the finish line. Try it!