You are tired of the consequences and have made a gut decision that you are going to face your procrastination. Having become more aware of the mechanism and the meaning behind it (see The Psychology of Procrastination – part 1 and part 2) you are ready to try some tools from therapy.
Alone or with the help of your psychologist, you will learn how to cut the target down to size. Rather than giving the task you have postponed inordinate importance, you are going to lower the stakes. You may take a new look at your thinking and behavior thanks to cognitive therapy. You will learn to chop your goal down into do-able matter-of-fact steps so that you can bypass your anxiety alarm system.
You can imagine the manageable steps you will take from start to finish before you begin to do what you’ve been procrastinating on. You can work with me in my psychology office to acquire relaxation techniques you can combine with visualizing your taking action step by step. You may also enhance your ability to overcome procrastination using EMDR. Soon you will have the pleasure of discovering firsthand that “Life by the yard is very hard; life by the inch is a cinch.”
Debra BERG, The Bilingual Psychologist in Paris