So why do we procrastinate? Dr. Jane Burka and Dr. Lenora Yuen take you through the common reasons in their wonderful book, Procrastination. I’m going to review them in my next several blogs. The one I’m going to talk about today is,
The Fear of Failure.
Are you afraid of finding out what your best is? That if you put your all into something, and show it to others, the judgment may be too harsh to bear? What you may do to manage this intolerable feeling is to procrastinate. When the project is finished in a rush, you can then tell yourself, “It’s not my best because I didn’t have the time to make it so.”
In other words, you didn’t fail because it’s not your best. “I can always do that next time,” you tell yourself. And the next time never comes, because of your fear of failure.
If you recognize yourself in this dynamic, stay with me, because I’ll be exploring this more…
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