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Procrastination: Getting to the Core of The Problem

by Kevin Hogan

Over the last month I’ve written a lot about getting past putting the important things off.

I know so many people who know they will never earn more for their family than they are today but just can’t pull the trigger at either :

a) starting an easy home style business that would add significantly to their bottom line or

b) finishing projects that they’ve started.

I can think of at least 30 people who have started books, put time into starting a website but they set it aside, “wondering if it would work.”

It does NOT work.
IT never does.

You and only you decide if IT will work.

The car does not go to a gas station by itself and fill up with gasoline. But EVERYTIME YOU go to the gas station you fill the car up with gasoline.

There is no “wondering” if IT will work.

Geezuz, if Kevin Hogan, who has no grammatical skills whatsoever (I know this is true because reviewers at amazon remind me of this all the time) can write 15 books and earn a ridiculous amount of money, ANYONE can.

I don’t know what a gerund is. I don’t know what dangling participles do. I don’t know what a direct object is. I know you aren’t supposed to end sentences with the word “is,” like the last sentence….or use lots of….pause’s…

But I never wonder if “IT” (the book) will sell.

It won’t.

IT never does.

Either I choose it to happen or I don’t.

And that’s just one glaring example.

Our internet web site shouldn’t make the kind of money “it” generates. I can tell you a dozen reasons why, but the fact is, that IT doesn’t generate money. I decide if it will and I put my attention there and THEN it does.

There is no question about the result.

Most people who put things off, don’t get things done once they start them…most people are pretty honest with themselves and recognize it. But it can really be helpful to quantify a future threatening problem like procrastination. That’s the purpose of this questionnaire you get to take today.

A questionnaire is not a scientific instrument. (I wish…) What this questionnaire does is allow you to take a snapshot of yourself as far as putting important things off in life.

There is no personality disorder or disease that goes along with a high or low score. This simply helps you find where you can trigger more positive behaviors…and like all good questionnaires, there is a self scoring tool that should be used as a guide.

If you find the guide conflicts with who you see yourself as, then start logging each day what you wanted to be doing when you made your plan for the day, and contrast it with what really happened.

If you want to cheat and get a “perfect score,” just check the right hand column all the way down. If you want to be a procrastination martyr just check all the things under “often!”

(Remember this isn’t a test. No one sees this. Honest self examination is free of charge and causes no pain you haven’t felt already.)

OK, let’s get to it.

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Kevin Hogan
Network 3000 Publishing
3432 Denmark #108
Eagan, MN 55123
(612) 616-0732

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