15 Quotes by Neil A. Fiore

Procrastination is not the cause of our problems with accomplishing tasks; it is an attempt to resolve a variety of underlying issues, including low self-esteem, perfectionism, fear of failure and of success, indecisiveness, an imbalance between work and play, ineffective goal-setting, and negative concepts about work and yourself.

Just because you find more work and problems on your path than you anticipated doesn’t mean that you made a wrong choice or a mistake!

The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work; even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you’re committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you’re choosing a self-punishing form of work.

Denis Waitley, the author of The Psychology of Winning and The Joy of Working, who defines procrastination as “a neurotic form of self-defensive behavior” aimed at protecting one’s self-worth.

You’ll need to drop the model of self-alienation that you learned as a child – the one that tells you, “You are lazy and need someone to force you to work.

To make changes, you’ll need to break out of automatic pilot and start making conscious choices when.