Hey, it’s Marie Forleo and you are watching MarieTV, the place to be to create a business
and life you love, and today I want to make a declaration about procrastination.
I declare that not all forms of procrastination are created equal and I believe that some
forms of procrastination have unjustly gotten a bad rap.
People are always trying to overcome it and beat it down and the sad fact is procrastination’s
gotten whipped harder than Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey.
Rather than beating yourself up for procrastinating I want to challenge you to see it from a new
perspective.
Here’s what I mean.
What if sometimes your procrastination isn't such a bad thing?
What if some part of you deep down inside knows that this is your last chance to turn
around before you go down Sh*t Show Lane?
The point where if your life were a horror movie, the audience would all be yelling at
the screen saying, “Oh, no, don’t do it.
Don’t go down there.”
Here’s an example from my own life; actually, it was just last year.
I was considering doing a business deal with someone.
I put it on our project list and we wanted to move it ahead.
I surround myself with drivers, people who get things done, but for some reason, this
deal was not moving ahead.
We’d look at the project every day but somehow we push it to the back burner and then we’d
feel bad about procrastinating until one day I got this crazy pants phone call from that
person we were supposed to do the deal with that made me see exactly why we procrastinated
even if we didn’t know it yet.
This person went postal over such a tiny detail that it made me wonder how did I not catch
this sooner.
Clearly we were not meant to do business together and thank God no contracts have been signed.
In other words, thank God we procrastinated.
Now this isn't the only time that procrastination has been a blessing and not a curse.
The point is that now I know if I'm procrastinating uncharacteristically it may be a sign that
something is seriously off.
The bottom line is this and yes, it’s a tweetable:
“Sometimes putting it off is a sign you need to call it off.”
What say you on this topic, oh brilliant one?
Have you ever found that procrastination was actually a good thing?
If so, what were the signs that gave you the indication that this was different, it wasn’t
your run of the mill, wait to the last minute habit?
Leave a comment and let me know.
As always the best discussions happen after the episode over at MarieForleo.com so go
there and leave a comment now.
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