If you Google, “how to overcome procrastination” you will find over 100,000 results. Looking over the results, I realized that procrastination must be quite a problem if there are so many posts, articles, and books written on the subject.
The problem is that most of the articles about procrastination actually keep us from doing whatever we are putting off doing. The articles recommend “getting organized to do it”, “getting motivated”, or telling us any number of mental lies we can use to hide the fact that we are not doing what we tell ourselves we need to be doing. Instead we are procrastinating by reading about how to overcome procrastination.
For many people that want to create a business, you can spend more time studying how to create a business than actually doing something to make that business a reality.
In my case, I have been procrastinating the building of a speaking, coaching, and consulting business for three years. For three years I have been blogging, writing free articles, incorporating my business, and discovering new accounting tools that make my year-end tax preparation for $0 in income much easier. It wasn’t until a number of months ago that I realized I was having a problem.
On a Monday afternoon, when I was getting ready to leave a Toastmasters meeting, one of my friends made a comment to me, “You have all these ideas for product, programs, and speeches. When are you going to actually follow through and sell something?”
I was floored and for three months I didn’t have an answer.
It wasn’t until I was meeting with a friend a few weeks ago that I had an answer. During the meeting, I realized what separated me from people that were successful with their businesses was not knowledge. I have enough of that. What the true separator was that successful people had an idea then executed it. They didn’t let procrastination get in the way. They took an idea and they executed it until they had created a complete product, service, or business.
I didn’t do that. Instead I jumped from idea to idea without completing anything.
After my meeting, I had enough of my mental excuses of why I couldn’t create a product, so for 6 days I spent my free time doing what I had never done before. I sat down and executed my idea for a product.
The result was an eBook and website that shows that it is possible to overcome procrastinating and create a product in a weekend.
The goal of the eBook is to help you overcome what I have overcome, the inability to turn ideas into products. It does this by giving you a plan for a Friday night through Sunday evening self-directed boot camp. During your self-directed boot camp, you will formulate an idea, get your idea organized, turn it into a product,and then get your product packaged and available for sale.
The product you create isn’t going to be a massive product that will change the world, but I hope that it will be the product that shows you it is not as hard as you think to create and sell your products and your ideas.
Does this sound like it could help?
Then check out the sales page or just click buy now:
The cost is $37
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Procrastination is a fact of life and success is a choice. Whatever we want to achieve in life, we must remember that we are the masters of our fate. If we chose to fail, the we will. If we chose to succeed, then we have claimed our privilege.