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Confronting Procrastination And Healing Your Relationship with Yourself

Philip A. Christensen
3 min readMay 14, 2024

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Confronting Procrastination And Healing Your Relationship with Yourself; Mindfulness; Life; Life Lessons; Lifestyle; Mental Health

We both know: that purpose is important. When it comes to things you don’t want to do or stress you out, any reason is good to postpone. I don’t know about you, but that was my expertise when self-sabotage was flourishing in my life. Yes, I see procrastination as a form of self-sabotage.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. — Charles Dickens

If you constantly postpone different actions for the future, again and again, there comes a time when you end up punishing yourself from the past for procrastination and for all the pressure you put on yourself now.

Imagine if you had a coworker who worked the shift before you and always did only the easy things, leaving you with very difficult tasks, so your work was always very challenging, you probably wouldn’t like them too much, right?

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. — Sven Goran Eriksson

You’d probably consider them lazy or thoughtless or indifferent or just not a very good person because they always put the tasks they don’t want to do on you, right?

If you constantly postpone difficult things, then in the future, the previous shift coworker towards whom you’ll start having those feelings is you, you’ll see yourself…

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Philip A. Christensen
Philip A. Christensen

Written by Philip A. Christensen

Author and coach, I write for ambitious solopreneurs, creative freelancers, and overwhelmed leaders who want to know how to deal with their self-sabotage.

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