Minimizing Fallout
from Risks, Self-Sabotage,
and Procrastination
When people allow instinct and intuition to be part
of their decision-making process, they experience less regret
and feel less conflicted when they make important decisions.
—karol ward
There is an excitement to taking a chance, to stepping into the unknown or trying something that could be slightly dangerous. Knowing that you won’t ever get ahead unless you try something new can be very compelling. Getting that rush, that feeling of accomplishment when the risk you are taking was somehow successful, can make it worth the danger. But taking chances inherently increases risk. When you go out on a limb, that limb can break, creating chaos instead of perceived order. Your intuition can help narrow down which actions you should take, lessening the risks.
If we didn’t ever have to take a chance or if we don’t have to work for it in some way, what good is the reward? We might as well sit on our hands, and what fun would that be? Taking risks to better yourself and those around you can be priceless, depending on what you’re doing. Frequently, we take more risks in our personal lives than we do in business because we are so afraid of losing our job, our client, our position, and even our significance if we take a risk and fail. This is understandable when you have people depending on you, including yourself. It can be very scary.
Look beyond the risk to the quality of life. Being driven often comes at a price. You won’t win every time, but you won’t win anytime if you don’t try. If you start looking at successful people, the interesting thing is that they are always moving forward. They’ve gotten to the point where they don’t have to question whether it’s worth it or not. They just trust it will work out and dive in. They’ve determined through experience that there will always be risk and they take the risks that feel right. More often than not it is worth the reward because of the way it’s worked out previously. They believe it will turn out to be positive, so they are confident. The universe makes it happen. They are optimists living with the expectation that all will be good. They trust their intuition and operate on the assumption that it will be a success, which, in their eyes, minimizes the risk. But there’s a good possibility it wasn’t always that way.
Once they started taking risks and realizing that things wouldn’t change unless they took some intuitively directed chances, their mindset changed, and they began transforming their lives. The thought of self-sabotage isn’t part of their mentality. Now, they dive in without hesitation once they determine it is something they want. They don’t procrastinate.
When you live with a poverty consciousness instead, you tend to question and doubt whether the risks are worth it. If you’ve grown up with scarcity, you are used to scarcity and therefore have a difficult time taking the chance. This generally holds true in your professional and personal life. Taking a risk with a relationship can be more daunting if you were raised without a father or mother because he or she took off and left you to be cared for by your single mom or dad. Never having the money to pay the rent during childhood has become your (unintended) mantra, and it’s always a struggle, so taking a chance and possibly losing your job can be terrifying. These are real concerns and real fears. These are not unique in general but are very specific to each individual. Like the people mentioned earlier who were able to use their intuition to minimize fallout, who were able to change their mindset, you have to decide if you’re ready to start taking risks—even if you begin with small ones.
Try This!
Think of what holds you back. Think of why you may not want to take risks. Could it be because you don’t believe you can do it? Is it because you’ve had so many bad experiences already that you don’t think it’s possible for you to have good ones? Is it because you’ve failed multiple times in the past, so you take it for granted that’s what it will always be? Could it be because you feel like you don’t deserve it? Is it a poverty consciousness or something else you grew up with that has taught you things won’t work out?
These are all valid reasons. However, taking the risk may very well be exactly what you need in order to move forward. But you shouldn’t do it blindly. Instead, let’s practice.
Think of something you want but you need to take a risk in order to get. It could be a new job, a relocation, a raise, and so on. Focus in on what it is. Think about what the actual risks would be. Now, tune in to your intuition. If you were to take the risk, what do your intuitive vibes tell you?
- You will fail.
- You will succeed.
- It’s a good idea.
- It may not produce the outcome you expected.
- It will be better than you expected.
- You will be happy.
- You will be miserable.
- You will feel like you accomplished something great.
- It will be a step back in your career or life.
- It will propel you to the next level in your career or life.
Once you’ve gone through all the possible outcomes and more, using your intuition, think about how it felt, what you saw in your mind’s eye, and if you heard anything or just knew things about taking the risk. Going even deeper, did your intuitive senses match, or did they give you different answers? If they were different, focus in again using all your psychic gifts and determine, kind of by unanimous decision, which way you are leaning. Remember, you can always ask your intuition for clarity if you’re not sure what it’s trying to convey to you.
You can use this type of guidance anytime you are debating whether to take any size risk, whether it is big or small, with a caveat that you try to follow through with what your intuitive guidance is telling you! Taking that risk may be exactly what you need to jump-start your success.
No Regrets
Think of it as risk versus reward. If you take the chance, you may be rewarded. If you don’t, you’ll never know what the reward would have been. I am not saying every risk is worth the chance of reward, but if you let your fear control your actions, you will stay stuck exactly where you are. You won’t ever be able to get ahead in business or in life. You will be stagnant. Everyone knows, in theory, that you only regret the chances you didn’t take. But we are talking reality here, and the reality is you may regret chances you took that didn’t work out. When you take a chance and it doesn’t work out, it can make you or break you, which is why it is so important to check in with your intuition before jumping headlong into something blindly. However, if you don’t use your intuition or take any chances, you never know what will actually work out. The fear of failure will inevitably create regrets in every part of your life.
I worked with a client, Daniel, who played sports. In Daniel’s first year, he played well only until someone else bested him, and he then shrank back and took on a supporting role. When he came to me, questioning why he wasn’t scoring anymore, I told him, “You will remember playing. You may remember some of your teammates. You won’t remember the goals you missed. You damn sure will remember the goals you made! So take the initiative and go for it!” Just like Daniel, when you begin doubting your abilities or you let someone else’s expertise overshadow yours, you allow yourself to fail. Failing is easy; everyone can do it. The real challenge is to go for it—give it 110 percent, knowing that even if you fail, you won’t regret it because at least you are moving toward your goals. Fight for what you want! Go after what you desire by making those moves, and you won’t be disappointed.
An Open Mind and a Willingness
to Succeed Are All You Need
It is amazing when you begin connecting to your intuition—you start to feel a bit less vulnerable and less exposed because you can be more confident in what you are doing. At this point, whether you have a highly developed business acumen or you’re still in the embryonic stage is irrelevant. All you really need is the desire for greatness. Expect success now. You’ve activated your metaphysical senses and by combining them with your existing skills, there will be no stopping your growth. Staying open to the process will automatically propel you forward and keep you on your path to becoming the badass you want to be.
When you use your intuition to help guide you with your decision-making, you lessen the risk of the action you are taking. If you knew what the outcome would be before you jumped into something, it would make you so much more secure. You’d feel comforted in the wisdom that what you are going to do will have a positive outcome. Clearly, this would lessen your fear and make it more feasible to attempt things. Anything becomes easy when you know the end result ahead of time.
Making smart decisions will always be better than diving headlong into new experiences blindly. Remember in CHAPTER 1 when I defined your basic clair senses—clairvoyance (sight), clairaudience (hearing), clairsentience (feeling), and claircognizance (knowing)? These are the senses you need to use in order to tune in to any given situation. Utilizing your intuitive abilities will help you lessen any risks and increase all your gains. You can start with a very basic intuitive feedback system and progress to a more highly developed intuitive guidance technique as you increase your acumen.
Think about betting on the roulette wheel. When you place a color bet, meaning you choose not a number but either black or red, you have a fifty-fifty chance of doubling your money. There are basically two ways to decide the bet. The first is to guess. Literally, just guess. Your odds are still fifty-fifty. Or you can use your gut. You know this to be your intuition and, more specifically, your clairsentience. Placing your bet by feeling if you put it on the right color may increase your odds of winning. Why not do this with every risk you take in life?
Raising your awareness also raises your probability of success. I don’t claim you will be right all the time. You will get better as you go. Think about what risk is involved. If it’s monetary, it could be as small as one dollar or infinitely bigger. When you become more comfortable with your intuitive feelings, you will find you will take bigger chances. Whether at the casino or in your business, you have to raise the stakes a bit, and that works much better if you have greater insight into what your better options may be.
Risk does not always involve money, but let’s start there, because we can all use a little more. When all is said and done, money can’t buy happiness, but it can definitely make it easier to be happy. Using your clairsentience, you might find you can decrease your risk, and you might be surprised at how attainable your goals can be. Having said that, let’s do some work to help you realize how it can work for you.
Try This!
Go ahead and open a newspaper and go to the stocks area. If you don’t have a newspaper, you can go online and find a stock site. Pick out five stocks that you see, preferably ones that you are not familiar with or that you know nothing about. You are going to become a market aficionado and intuit the trend for each stock over the next week or so. Write down the first stock in the middle of a piece of paper. Put it in front of you.
To really tune in to your intuitive vibes, you must relax. In order to do that, you can work on your meditative breathing for a few minutes. Once you feel your mind, body, and spirit slowing down, start meditating on that particular stock. Breathe in and out, thinking of the stock the whole time. See the actual name of the stock or the stock symbol in your mind. Ask, internally or out loud, which direction you feel the stock moving. You might feel a slight tug one way or the other. Pay attention if your body or even just one part of you, like your head or your arm, feels pulled. Notice if your body temperature changes or gets cooler or even warmer on one side versus the other. One side of you may twitch a bit; feel that. How does it feel in your gut? What’s your knee-jerk reaction? Usually, that’s an indication of your clear sensing drawing you toward something. In this case, your intuition will be letting you know whether this particular stock is moving you down or up. Now, flip over your paper, and based on what you felt, draw an arrow up or down to represent the stock’s price either increasing or decreasing over the next day. Write the date next to the arrow on the back of the paper.
After you’ve done this for the first stock, do the same for each of the others, one at a time. When you do the second stock, it might actually feel different than it did with the first one. This may be due to the direction of the stock’s trajectory (gaining or losing value), or it might be because it is a more familiar exercise the second time around. If it didn’t feel like you were lured either way for any of them, that’s okay. Just go ahead and guess. Usually our best guesses, especially after meditation, have a basis in intuition, even if we don’t recognize it as such.
When you’ve worked all the stocks, put away the papers. Don’t look at them, don’t compare your answers, and above all, don’t judge the work you did. Over the next week or so, do it again, each day, recording your projections for the week. Don’t look at what you’ve already intuited every day until after you do the work. Then, flip the paper again and write the date and direction you felt drawn to.
At the end of the week, pull out the newspapers for each day or open each stock on the internet on a site that will show you the daily stock value. Record the starting value on the first day, and then mark the values for each date that you tuned in. Compare the actual activity to what you recorded. Pay special attention to any trends you notice. In particular, you may have been right on with one stock and not so much with another.
Beyond whether you were right or wrong, how did it feel? Did you gain confidence in your clairsentience the more you used it, or did it stress you out? Did you enjoy it? Was it comfortable? Was it hard not looking right away to see if you were right? And were you right, for the most part, or wrong? If you were wrong every single time, maybe it’s because you misread your body’s clues. For example, now you know that if you feel cold on the left, that means to going up instead of down and vice versa.
This method of risk can be simply vetted by doing exercises like the stock predictions. Not only will it help you practice tuning in, but it also has great potential to help you make some money in the market. Don’t forget, actually playing in the stock exchange never comes with guarantees, so be smart and know when it feels right or when it feels wrong. Start small until you feel comfortable. Then you can wager more money, and yes, you bet I said “wager” because there is definitely risk involved. Be that speculator and work it—with a decreased risk when you listen to what your intuition is telling you.
Visualize Risk Reduction
You’ve just utilized your clairsentience, along with a smattering of your other senses. Concentrating on your clairvoyance can present you with another way to tune in to your intuition to reduce risk. Seeing possible outcomes in your mind’s eye can lead to a deeper understanding of what you should do in a particular situation. If you have the knowledge to make better choices, why wouldn’t you use it? If you could see which side of the coin was going to land face up before it flipped, wouldn’t you pick it? Just think of the possibilities.
Make your life easier—trust your intuition to help you however you can. In order to do that clairvoyantly, you can use symbolism to assist you in perceiving what your intuitive guidance system is trying to impart to you. Symbols offer you a way to interpret the impressions you get when you tune in.
Imagine, if you will, that you have decided to make a change at work. There’s no urgency, so it’s on you to settle on what time of year you should aim for to switch it up. How can you select the best month or season? You can just throw caution to the wind and not tap into your natural gifts. You’ve got a 25 percent chance that it would be the optimal plan. Or you can utilize your clear sight, reducing your risk of making a move at the wrong time. Let’s do it that way.
Try This!
Employing your past practice of breathing and meditation from CHAPTER 4, go ahead and let yourself relax a bit before trying to tap in. Once you’ve chilled out, think about what you want to accomplish by shifting your job. Do you want to leave where you are working altogether? Do you want to switch up your own inventory? Do you want to run a sale special? Are you hoping to get a raise or a promotion that you need to apply for? Do you need to hire someone to help with your responsibilities? Decide what it is you are hoping to attain.
Now that you’ve established what you want to do, it’s time to do the work. You are going to allow your intuition to show you, clairvoyantly, when would be best for you to make the changes you are looking forward to. Close your eyes and think of the seasons, using symbols to represent each one. For example, you may see a strawberry for summer, a pinecone for winter, a pumpkin for fall, and a flower for spring. Using these examples gives you a quick, more complete answer. Now, see yourself, in your imagination, in your new position, career, or job. Where are you and what are you doing? Without censoring or judgment, ask for one of the season symbols to show up in your mind’s eye to let you know in what season you’ve successfully made the change. Does it make sense? Did you see the image clearly? Did you see something else?
When you’ve finished, do it again. Come at it from a different angle. This will help you establish if what you’re visualizing is truly your clairvoyance at work or something else. It can be difficult to know whether your imagination has taken over, but double-checking helps. As with all your gifts, the more you practice the more you’ll be able to validate what you are getting intuitively. By practicing using your basic gifts on a somewhat regular basis, you will become more confident.
The wisdom you’ve gained by visually intuiting the symbol to show you the best time to make your move will afford you the greatest possible outcome. Maybe you would be fine if you changed things up during any season, but things may not work out if you did it at the wrong time. This is about reducing the risk you are taking by tuning in. By seeing with your intuition, you can have faith that you’ve picked the right period in your life to switch it up. You’re not only lowering the risks; you’re upping your potential gains. What could be better than that?
Obviously, you can use this method of using symbols to look ahead clairvoyantly for any area of your life: when or with whom to list your house, when to move across country, which job to take, which job to apply for, whom to hire, whom to fire, and so on. Essentially, when you need to evaluate your choices, tap into your intuitive sight to reduce the risks of ending up with a bad result by seeing the better ones in your mind’s eye.
Try This!
Imagine that you have a huge presentation to do. Maybe it’s to your board members at work or it’s to try and land a new account with a potential client. Here’s the rub: if you blow this, your job is toast. You’ll have to pack your bags and walk out with your tail between your legs. This production of yours will have to be spot on. What you choose to do for the actual presentation can make you or break you. How can you reduce the risk of flushing your career down the toilet? You listen with your clairaudience.
It’s critical to figure out ahead of time what they will be looking for. What will excite your superiors or your newest customers? If you don’t settle on a specific theme or option they will appreciate, you are risking just about everything. Like before, you can guess. By guessing you are using a bit of intuitive juice already, mixed with logic based on what you know about the people you’re presenting to. When you specifically tap into your psychic abilities, though, you increase your odds of producing the best performance they’ll want to see.
Let’s suppose you can either pitch them product X or product Y, which, to your knowledge, are both good. But they have a lot of options available with other people, so you need to make sure you have the one they are more interested in pursuing. How can you accomplish that? By utilizing your clairaudient gift. Listening with your intuition can tell you exactly which direction to go in to lessen the chance they will fire you.
Focus in on your intuitive hearing. What might you hear that would indicate an answer in the affirmative? What sound would indicate a negative? For example, you might hear a ding, ding, ding to let you know that’s a good idea, or a song that plays in your head with the lyrics “no, no, no, no, no.” You might hear the actual word for which thing is the right thing for your particular situation. There are so many ways to tune in to your clairaudience that you are bound to find one that will resonate with you more, and that may become your easiest, go-to way to help you manage risks.
Relax using your meditative methods. Breathe until you feel grounded. Think about products one at a time. See them in your mind’s eye next to each other—product X and product Y. When you’ve gotten to a good place and can see the products, imagine turning up the volume on your new internal earbuds. Adjust both sides equally; this way you will hear with both ears internally. You’ve got the sound up perfectly, so let’s do this. Visualize product X. What do you hear? Any sounds, songs, words? Pay attention to whether they seem to be in the affirmative or the negative. If you’re not sure, ask for another sound to confirm. When you’ve gotten your answer(s), immediately change gears and focus on product Y and do the same thing. Do you get more of a positive vibe from one versus the other? More of a negative sense?
If you can’t hear anything, it may simply be because you can’t relate to this situation. Remember, you can adapt this exercise to something that’s more personal to you. Try using these methods, all your intuitive gifts, for a condition in your life that you need help with. You will likely find it will work better for you! Your clairaudience is waiting to be heard!
Knowing How to Lessen the Risk
You’ve already used your other clair senses to help you reduce risks, but what if you just knew things as easily as you know what color your shoes are? How amazing would that be? In this section we’ll look at how you can use your claircognizance, or clear knowing.
In relationships it is critical to trust your vibes. In this day and age there are so many interactions made online rather than in person that you have no choice but to use your intuition to decide whether to work with or even go on a date with someone you don’t know. Using your claircognizance to help sway you away or toward someone is one of the best ways to thin the herd. It can also keep you safe.
Try This!
Use Your Feelers to Get to Know People
Let’s try an experiment. Use your claircognizant sense to tune in to a variety of people. To practice, you can use people you already know so you can get a handle on what it feels like. Think of five different people you know—make sure you mix it up with some you like and some you don’t. The purpose here is to try and understand what your clear knowing feels like.
After you’ve selected your five, begin to think of them one at a time. Without restraining or judging, let yourself focus on the first three descriptors you get about them. For example, when I think of my husband, the first three adjectives I get for him are protective, mushy, and fierce. To me, it describes him to a T. When I think of a specific ex-employee, I immediately know that immature, insecure, and untrustworthy come to mind. By tuning in to people I am already familiar with, I can easily comprehend what the words feel like for me when I just know something about someone.
If you haven’t already, go ahead and focus on your five people and experience, without questioning it, what three words you would use to describe them. These are things you just know. Recognizing how you have portrayed these people will help you moving forward in future relationships. Whether it’s your personal or professional life, you can tune in to a person’s energy to determine what you know about someone, even though you don’t necessarily know them. By doing this, you can reduce any risk that’s associated with that particular relationship. It can be your first meeting on a date, or it can be a decision about whether you want to get into business with someone new. Creating a rapport among new affiliations can increase your chances of getting ahead in life, and the more you trust your clear knowing, the more naturally it will begin showing you who people are. Trust it and it will decrease any risks connected to your new relationships.
Addressing the Issue of Self-Sabotage
Everyone wants to be successful. But are we afraid to succeed? What actually comes with success? I mean, you put forth the effort, and you work very hard, doing whatever you can to get ahead. You might even set a goal and create a path to get there. But, somewhere along the way, something shifts. Just when you think you are going to succeed, you do something stupid.
Take my client Jan for instance. She had an important meeting, but she didn’t have time to stop and get gas. She took so long getting ready because she was nervous thinking of what changes would happen in her life if she were to succeed. So, of course, she was driving along and cough, cough, sputter—the car died like a dinosaur during the Ice Age. There was no starting it because she was out of gas. She knew she needed it, but she didn’t get it. Why did Jan take so long to get ready? Why the heck didn’t she stop and take the five minutes to fill up the tank? Possibly because she didn’t want to be late, but maybe it was because if she had made that meeting and she were to succeed, the benefits would have been too much for her to handle. And, maybe, she was self-sabotaging. Jan was scared to succeed.
Let’s look at another example that may be a bit more practical and, yes, common. Your boss tells you they think you’d be perfect for a promotion that’s just opened up in a different department, and you’re all but guaranteed to get it. You’ve been comfortable where you are for a while, but this new position can line you up to becoming more successful overall. All you need to do is fill out the one-page application by end of business the next day and hand it in. You take the application, get excited, and think about it all day and night. The next day you just need to hand it in. But you don’t do it. You don’t hand it in. The promotion goes to someone else who wasn’t as qualified but handed in their application. Why? Because you’re lazy? Probably not. More likely because it made you nervous.
Is it so puzzling to figure out why we do this? There are a few reasons. If we don’t try, it’s not really like we sucked. Right? If we don’t put the energy into succeeding, it’s okay that we fail because we never really worked for it. Worse yet, if we succeed, what will that do to us?
I work with clients all the time who, after some serious soul searching and guidance, have finally figured out they are sabotaging themselves. It’s taken them a long time to admit it because, after all, there is no one else to blame, and by admitting it, they now have to open themselves up to facing the reality that they have to make a decision. It’s that pivotal moment in life when you can stay down or you can soar, possibly beyond your wildest imagination. This, my friends, can be scary.
Life is not all peaches and cream; it’s not singing in the rain and splashing in the puddles with your rain boots on to protect you. Nope. It’s exhilarating at times, absolutely, but it can also be scary to navigate through. Owning up to your shortcomings or even the skills you haven’t quite acquired yet can be devastating. After all, it forces us to be honest with ourselves about our perceived limitations. Then what do you do? Well, that part is up to you. Own it so you can begin to change it.
You’re never going to win if you don’t try. You’re never going to get ahead if you can’t take that first step. You will, though it’s clichéd, only regret the chances you don’t take. From taking the shot to score in sports, to making the pitch to get the client, to asking the girl out, it’s never going to happen if you don’t take that chance. Sabotaging yourself by not even trying will always end in failure.
Instead of failing before you even start, how about attempting to succeed? Maybe, just maybe, if you stop self-sabotaging, you will start living your best life. Take it one step at a time. The second you realize you may be doing it, write down all the reasons you may be self-sabotaging—all the ways you might benefit if you stop denying yourself. Then try to make it happen! It may not be easy, but to move forward you have to start somewhere.
Procrastination
As I sit here writing, I realize that one of my biggest deterrents to getting things done and finishing things up is procrastination. I also know, as I write this, that I can change my habits to increase my success. When we procrastinate, we stall our energy. Think of it like an arrow. We shoot the arrow out of a bow, so first we pick up the bow, the idea. Then, we load the arrow, putting together the plan. Next, we pull it back, cocking the arrow, or creating a strategy. Finally, we either release the arrow and let our energy soar, working to put the plan in action, or we drop the arrow because we waited too long. We procrastinated and stalled out our energy.
I don’t know about you, but I am done stalling out. I want to move forward. I think you want to also, so let’s do it together.
The first step is acknowledgment. I’ll start. One thing I procrastinate with is calling people back. I get a number of calls a day, which I don’t answer. Obviously, if it’s a client or something important, I need to return their call, but I don’t always check my voicemail right away. I wait, for a variety of reasons. Sometimes I’m in the middle of something. Sometimes I am not working that day. Sometimes I just don’t feel like working right then in that moment. The problem, though, is if I wait too long, it makes me feel bad and it also makes the person wonder if I ignored them or at the very least why they didn’t get a call back. (Sometimes I don’t realize there is a voicemail. Those times don’t count!) Worst-case scenario is someone who needed a session ASAP has now gone somewhere else, and I’ve lost their business. I am not only procrastinating, I am sabotaging my own business, and that is ridiculous!
Now it’s your turn. What do you procrastinate about? Is it business/professional? Or personal? Is it holding you back from attaining what you want? Is putting off what you should be doing keeping you from moving ahead? Think about this because it’s serious. Why are you doing it? Is it a theme in life? Are you afraid of something? Are you truly just lazy? Is it because you don’t feel like dealing with the issue? Is there some other reason, like when my husband doesn’t fix the drip in our rental property’s shower because the person who put it in did it wrong and he will have to rip out half of the marble? Sometimes there is absolutely a legitimate reason. However, that doesn’t give you a pass to procrastinate. I tell my husband to weigh the outcome. Procrastination long term in this circumstance can lead to a huge water bill or worse—replacing the entire shower. Fixing it may lead to replacing a portion of the marble. Which is worse? To me, for sure, it’s the water bill and the possibility that the whole thing will need to be ripped out. Replacing or having to cut the marble is no big deal. So why procrastinate?
Try This!
What will you do now? What would it take for you to stop procrastinating? Once you determine the reasons you are doing what you’re doing, you can take it a step further and explore your possible outcomes using your intuition. If you continue to procrastinate, what will that do? Take a deep breath and tune in to your abilities. Then ask the following questions:
- What do I see happening?
- Will I lose a client?
- A job?
- An opportunity?
- A position on a team?
- A relationship?
- Money?
- If I stop putting off what I need to do, what will the benefits be?
- Can it increase my ability to do something?
- Will it add to my wallet?
- Will it make my life easier?
- Will it add to my client base?
- Will it open the possibility to gain a big account?
The list can go and on. You will never accomplish as much as you can if you stop putting things off. Now that you’ve tuned in and asked the hard questions, the next step is to figure out how to actually stop procrastinating. There is no magic pill to take, nor is there a button to press. Unfortunately, what’s needed here is to continue tuning in to your intuition on a constant basis and weigh the two main questions above until you get to the balance you want.
Close your eyes. Using your clairvoyance and the rest of your gifts, visualize each benefit you’d reap if you stopped procrastinating, one at a time. As you do, move your eyes up and to the right (keeping your eyes closed). After you’ve done that, move your eyes back to center. Now, again, using your intuition, tune in to the next benefit and move your eyes up and to the right. Then, move them back to center. Do this with each and every advantage you’d have if you stopped procrastinating.
Next, do the same with each negative outcome that may happen if you continue putting things off, but when you focus on each one move your eyes down and to the left. Then, return your eyes to center. When you’ve completed your list of consequences from postponing your tasks, open your eyes.
Finally, imagine something that makes you really happy. As you do, with your eyes open, look up to the right and smile. Immediately, think of one of the benefits you’ll have if you stopped procrastinating. Go through the list of happy thoughts and gains one by one. Then do the same with frustrating or negative thoughts and disadvantages while looking down and to the left.
When you are totally done, look up to the right and smile. You may or may not instantly stop procrastinating. It might take a few attempts, but every time you start to consider procrastinating instead of tackling something head on, repeat this exercise. Your mind’s natural desire for happiness should begin to outweigh the desire to put things off!
Nobody said it would be easy. It takes work. It takes effort. You are trying to become the person you want to be, and that means taking strides toward change. Addressing your weak spots is the only way to take control of your destiny. If it is too scary to deal with them all at once, tackle them one at a time, but don’t put it off. Procrastination keeps your focus consistently on the future, worrying or even agonizing about what you have to do. When you tackle the task, whatever it is, you will finish it and can live in the present moment without the concern over what may come. You can do it. Why wait?
There are so many chances to be taken in life. Without drawing on your intuition about which ones to take, the odds may very well be against you to succeed. When you become too afraid to go for it because the situation is scary and feels like too much of a gamble, you can lean on your gifts to help you try when appropriate. Those risks won’t feel as insurmountable when you know you have an “in” with the universe. Even the big risks, like relocating, can be taken when you have that intuitive connection.