The Solution: Have an even BIGGER Problem

Procrastination is pretty common. So I was eager to learn how a relatively new client would handle a task he agreed to take on ... one he'd been meaning to finish (and start, too, for that matter) for the better part of ... a year.

To our mutual delight, he reported just this morning that he not only started, but finished, the task in its entirety! (Again, congrats, D.)

When asked what helped him finally get it going, he summed it up in this way:

"When faced with an even BIGGER problem, the stuff that seemed impossible got a whole lot easier to just go ahead and do."

In other words, he realized that in order to solve this new problem, he needed to take care of that original thing first. So he did. And just like that, he started ... and finished ... a project he had be putting off for the better part of a year! Just like that, it moved from the impossible ... to completed.

Dependencies and inter-relationships of things can be a real pain sometimes. But in this case, it turned out to be a cure for procrastination.

So, what BIGGER problems can you use to help clear out the backlog of your procrastination?