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Here's why acknowledging your fear works: You're scared because you expect a lot from yourself and you're afraid you'll underperform. When you acknowledge that fear, you're acknowledging that you might not have all that it takes to meet your expectations; you might not have all the tools, information, skills, etc. Admitting that, in turn, reduces your expectation of getting it perfect right off the bat.

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The results, published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, showed that participants who formulated intentions to overcome obstacles were twice as physically active—exercising nearly one hour more per week—as participants in the control group, who received information about the importance of physical exercise but did not formulate implementation intentions.

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"life is often a matter of just getting on with things because the alternative is too terrible to countenance. This is procrastination's bleak underlying message"

Ah, again, Mark ends up in the same place that I have in my struggle to understand procrastination. Procrastination's "bleak underlying message" is about not getting on with life, our life, itself. I'm not arguing that we "fix" anything here, only that we wrestle with this terrible truth.

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To counter that, I have started creating 30-day containers in which I experiment with a new idea. Rather than steadfastly incorporating something new into my life for all eternity, I turn it into an experiment with a finite time-frame.

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