Do You Procrastinate and Cram? This Episode is for You
Episode description
You might think that procrastination and cramming are related, that the former leads to the latter. But not always.
Procrastination is an avoidance pattern. You put off doing a thing because it presents some level of discomfort. Instead, you replace it with something less challenging, something to distract you from the discomfort you know you’ll eventually have to face.
For the self-employed entrepreneur, procrastination is a death sentence for your business. Putting things off means pushing off potential profit. Procrastinate long enough and you go out of business.
So we have to set deadlines for ourselves, hard dates to accomplish a task — write content, publish a post, launch a course. Without hard dates, we can find ourselves in a perpetual state of revising, adding and subtracting from the project we need to launch.
Set a hard deadline and commit to it. Use every ounce of discipline you have to not stray. Even if you miss the mark a bit, at least you’ll have made some headway and have data to make improvements moving forward.
As you get closer to these deadlines you’ll want to cram. You are undoubtedly on a grow path so that means continually learning and expanding your knowledge and expertise.
And you’ll want to include everything you’ve learned to the very last minute. That’s normal. You’ll always feel like it’s not ready so you’ll push and cram to to the very last minute to make the thing the best it can be.
So you see, in this context procrastination and cramming aren’t related. Procrastination is an unproductive pattern of avoidance and cramming is wanting to deliver the best possible product you can.
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