What is the difference between fear and procrastination?  Is there a difference?  I don’t think that there is a difference and I am going to tell you why I believe this to be true.  When we fear something we try to avoid whatever it is that makes us fearful.  Fear is a funny thing because there is the type of fear that makes us uneasy to the point that we may even tremble, and then there is the fear that we experience when we get the adrenalin rush from a thrilling rollercoaster ride.  These two types of fear show us two things.  The fear that makes us tremble keeps us stationary; we are hesitant to go forward because of the unknown.  The fear that we experience when we look at a gigantic rollercoaster ride is a fear that moves us into action.  We move in to action because there is a desired outcome.  We want to feel the experience of having faced our fear.  That fear combined with a desired outcome motivated us to reach a goal and a benefit.  Our goal was to face our fear and ride the rollercoaster and the benefit was the conquest of the ride, not to mention the adrenalin rush. 

When we fear something we just don’t know what to do.  We are not sure what is going to happen and we are not sure that we understand what is making us fearful.  We love to watch scary movies but at the same time we are afraid of the dark.  We like snowboarding but we worry about avalanches.  We like deep sea diving but we are afraid of sharks.  The point is this, that no matter what it is that you fear, if you take charge and face your fear the odds are that you are going to feel much better when you put your fears away and focus on the outcome. 

Now, what is procrastination and what does it have to do with fear.  Procrastination is what we do when we don’t want to do something.  We will rationalize and tell ourselves that we will take care of business tomorrow.  We rationalize that we can take care of things later.  We are afraid to commit to the moment.  We are afraid to move out of our certain comfort zone.  Sure we have the right intentions when we put things off, but they are not focused intentions.  They are what I like to call scatter brain intentions.  I call them that because that is what they are.  They are all over the proverbial road.  If we had a particular goal and we kept putting it off, do you suppose that we would eventually accomplish that goal?  I would guess that one would never reach that goal until the focus was on the goal.  But, that is not all that we would have to do, we would have to take the action or actions towards that certain goal.  We would have to get off of our soft end and move on things TODAY!  Sure there are those who would say, “I’ll do that tomorrow”, and then go back to sleep.  They continue to invest in the illusionary world of tomorrow.  They fail to see that yesterday no longer exists and that tomorrow is an illusion.  They don’t realize that the only real time is right now, this moment, this day.  They fail to invest in themselves TODAY.  Why?  Maybe we fail to take action TODAY         because we are afraid that we may fail.  Or, maybe we are afraid that we may succeed and we would not know how to handle success.

So you see my friends fear and procrastination are brothers, brothers who can work together to defeat you, or to help you to succeed.  You can use fear and procrastination to avoid YOUR successes.  And, you can use fear and procrastination to your demise.

YOU decide, but do it TODAY.   I can help you to get started, visit me.

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