Are You Guilty?
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after tomorrow."...Samuel Clemens
Hello superstar. how are you doing today? I have been holding on tightly to God’s grace sufficient for this season and my All-sufficient has indeed carried me. I am in awe of His faithfulness. Did you read my newsletter last week? You can review here.
This week I focus on Procrastination. Are you a procrastinator? There are two categories:
a. Mild avoidance
b. Chronic delay
Procrastination is the act of delaying or postponing tasks or decisions, often to the point where it creates stress, missed deadlines, or reduced productivity. It's not just laziness—it can be driven by deeper causes like fear of failure, perfectionism, or feelings of overwhelm.
It’s kind of like mental tug-of-war: one part of you wants to get things done, but another part resists for emotional or psychological reasons.
Why have you chosen to torture yourself this way? My goal is to disempower your excuses. Here are some ways in which procrastination shows up.
It typically shows up in these ways:
Replacing important tasks with easier, less urgent ones (hello, cleaning your desk instead of writing that report)
Feeling anxious about a task and avoiding it, even though you know it’s important
Waiting for the “right mood” or a sense of motivation that never quite arrives
Pushing back on constantly sitting with your manuscript to write so you can finish that book.
Not following through with your meal plan to shed off the excess weight or cutting off a little sugar from your diet?
How do you overcome this?
Deploy the three-minute rule which is backed by research. The three-minute rule is a simple trick to beat procrastination: tell yourself you’ll work on that dreaded task for just three minutes—no more. Doesn’t matter why you’ve been putting it off; all you commit to is three minutes. If it still feels unbearable after that, you’re free to stop.
But here’s the interesting part: psychologists have found that once people start, they tend to keep going. In one study, nearly 98% of participants who tried the three-minute rule kept working beyond the initial time. That tiny commitment helps make the task feel doable—unlike the more popular “20-minute rule” from the Pomodoro technique, which some found too intimidating. Just three minutes is often enough to break through avoidance and kickstart momentum.
Credit to do.it edu.
Has this been helpful? Write back to me if it has empowered you with the strategy, you can integrate immediately to overcome procrastination.
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T.P.F.W Segment:
Proverbs 14:23 (New Living Translation)
All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
A.T.W Segment:
Around the world this week, How Smell Guides Our Inner World.
Smell is deeply tied with the emotion and memory centers of our brain. “We don’t know exactly how chemicals translate to perception.” But scientists are making progress toward systematically characterizing and quantifying what it means to smell by breaking the process down to its most fundamental elements — from the odor molecules that enter your nose to the individual neurons that process them in the brain. Find out more here
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