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Ideas for a Worrier Procrastinator
Avoid mentally catastrophizing tasks and events.
Recognize that making no decision is, in fact, making a decision.
To help yourself become more decisive, follow a two-part decision making process. First, commit yourself to the goal, then determine what steps you need to take to achieve that goal.
When faced with a challenging task, be sure to give as much consideration to what’s exciting about it as you do to what’s making you afraid.
Instead of panicking with a rhetorical “what if?” question, go one step further and state the answer.
Reduce the number of qualifiers, such as “kind of”, “maybe”, “perhaps” in your speech.
Reduce your worrying by changing your “I don’t know”s to “One thing I do know is….”.
Read motivational books and develop a personal repertoire of motivational phrases.
Break down every large, intimidating project into an assortment of smaller, easier-to-do tasks.
Spend more time with optimistic people who inspire self-confidence, and less time with pessimistic people who foster worry and self-doubt.
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