Hey, what's up? Jen here, and this is a happy bit. I've been thinking about procrastination this

week and wondering why we do it. Well, I realized the root of procrastination in general is fear.

Fear that we're not good enough, that we're not going to perform good enough, that we're going to let

someone down. Wow, right? In her book, Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert talks about fear and how we need

to put fear in the backseat and never, ever let it drive. Fear is a long for the ride and we have

to make the choice to dance with the fear, to understand the fear,

but to never ever let it make choices for us. Many of you have told me you want to write a book

or start a business or tackle that mountain of laundry or get your garage organized or whatever it is.

These projects can seem just completely overwhelming. Often we're afraid that we don't even know where to start or that it's going to take forever

or that we'll never finish it.

There's a lot of unknowns in that formula.

Well, we can tackle the fear by breaking it down into bite-sized pieces.

So if you wanted to organize the garage, it might begin by purchasing some totes or getting some hooks on the walls,

just sitting in the space and visualizing where you want everything to go, creating a picture in your mind first,

then writing a list of every component, and then writing down how long each component will take,

and then breaking it out. Okay, I see that I have about five hours of work here

and if I give it two hours a weekend for the rest of the month, I'll be done before the end of the

month. And then you break it down and go for it, chunk by chunk by chunk. So that's called chunking.

It helps reduce the fear because you become knowledgeable about all the pieces.

Now, it's so funny, but a lot of times when we're procrastinating, we will get really busy with other things.

We actually avoid the thing we want to do most or need to do most by staying busy with all

these other things.

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