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It's time for another Q & A Tuesday. Should we try that again? It's Q & A Tuesday! It's

Q & A Tuesday.

Q: Okay so we have a great question for today's Q & A Tuesday and I think it's something that

all of us deal with. How do you deal with procrastinations? So this is from someone

who writes in... I have no idea how to pronounce her name, so let's give this a try, Mijanou?

Mi-Jan-ooh??! Meejanow? "Meej." We're going to call you Meej and this is what she writes:

She writes: "How do you avoid procrastination and get a sense of urgency in the good sense

so that you take action now?"

A: Okay, so I actually have a two-part answer to this question and the first thing I want

to talk about is the overarching reason why all of us fight this nasty thing called procrastination.

And, I learned about this first from a author who I so admire, his name is Steven Pressfield

and he wrote an amazing book called The War of Art. If you haven't gotten it, you should

get it! We'll do a book review on that sometime soon.

Anyway, Steven talks about this idea called The Lizard Brain. So this Lizard Brain, all

it's concerned about is survival and the lizard brain wants to keep you hidden. It wants to

keep you safe. So it really stops us from doing things, from putting ourselves out there

that could be scary and it just basically makes us procrastinate. Now the thing that

you have to do is feel that fear. Feel that resistance, that resistance that actually

Steven Pressfield talks about that's attributed to the lizard brain, and just keep going anyway.

Another favorite author of mine, his name is Seth Godin. If you haven't heard of him,

definitely check him out and, he says all we need to do is ship. We need to ship our

things constantly. So what does that mean? That means writing your blog. That means produce

your music. That means create your videos. You have to create some momentum so you can

kind of push past that lizard brain and get your things going and get it out there.

There's no secret recipe, unfortunately, there's no secret sauce to moving past it besides

one of my favorite things to do is called "just do it!" Jezzdooet... So I'll talk to

you about what I do when it comes to getting over procrastination and that's this; tip

number one, this is what I do and it's called social accountability. So what does mean?

It means that I like to embarrass myself past procrastination. So I tell everybody and her

sister about what I'm going to do so that they can publically, socially hold me accountable.

So this way if I tell my girlfriend, "You know, I'm going to shoot these new videos

and you're going to see them next week." If she doesn't see them, she's going to call

me out on it and I'm going to be pretty embarrassed. So I like to use that social accountability

to get me to move past procrastination and get some sh*t done. The second thing that

I do is I schedule it.

So I often like to say, "If you don't schedule it, it's not real." And, a very wise friend

of mine and her name is Michelle Vargas, she was saying, "You know, if you don't want to

schedule it. You probably don't want to do it." And, I think that that's a very good

kind of inside tip for yourself because if you're not willing to put it on the calendar,

you're probably not willing to do it.

So that's all I got for you when it comes to procrastination. Again, it's a nasty thing

that all of us deal with but if pay attention to your lizard brain, I guarantee it if you

know it's there you can overcome it and then if you're anything like me, you can put some

public declarations out there. Get the things in your calendar and you can move past it.

So thank you so much for watching today. Hope you found it useful. If you like it, go ahead

and like it! Leave a comment below and if you want more great stuff, come and see us

at marieforleo.com. Thanks and I'll see you next time!

(Michelle, I'm fu**ing busy!)