How to Stop Procrastinating?
Procrastination is a common human problem, so we’ve collected these procrastination quotes to help anyone struggling with this malady.
Do you struggle with procrastination and the frustration and guilt of not doing the things you need or aspire to do? If so, you’re just a habit away from taking daily action that will turn it around for you.
If you don’t struggle with it, that’s awesome! Perhaps you’re here for a friend… or to grab some quotes for work. Either way, we’re glad you’re here and hope you’ll find some favorite procrastination quotes here.
If you do struggle with getting things done, then you’re definitely not alone. But if you want to get your goals done, you can simply kick this habit with daily creativity and goal setting.
Procrastination is kryptonite to creators.
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®
Table of Contents
- How to Stop Procrastinating?
- The Procrastination Problem
- The Good News About Procrastination
- Are You Working in Your Zone of Genius?
- Don’t Beat Yourself Up
- Overcoming Procrastination
- Manifest Your Dreams
- Procrastination Quotes
Over 9,900 people a month search the term, “How to stop procrastinating“.
Over 165,000 people per month search the word “Procrastination“.
And that’s just the numbers searching…
Those procrastination statistics are just the numbers of people who are actively searching the term. It doesn’t even touch the number of people who may be habitual procrastinators who never Google the word. Maybe they procrastinated on that too. ?
To help inspire you to take action, we’ve compiled an entire list of favorite procrastination quotes. But first, more perspectives on procrastination to help you along with your aspirations, because, well…
“Your dreams won’t get done without you.”
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®
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The Procrastination Problem
Research estimates that approximately 20% of people are chronic procrastinators.[1]https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/why-wait-the-science-behind-procrastination
If you’ve ever procrastinated on anything, you’ll know how there’s nothing about procrastination that makes you feel good about yourself. It’s a self-defeating habit that hinders the success of many creatives.
Corralling the free flowing creative spirit into time and space can be a challenge. To lasso the wild horse of imagination and tame the bucking bronco of the creative mind is a bumpy ride. However, once harnessed, that beauty can take you wherever you want to go.
“You will never regret the results you achieve by requiring yourself to focus and get stuff done.”
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®
The Good News About Procrastination
Are you here because you’re amongst the procrastinators who searched that term? If so, it’s likely that you’re tired of that pattern and ready to do something about it.
But If you’re procrastinating, there may actually be a good reason…and a good solution! If you’re always placing other things in front of your goals, that could be an indication that your heart isn’t really in it. If that’s it, maybe it’s time to assess and course correct if needed.
So don’t worry, but do look into this because you don’t want to delay getting on with the most important parts of your life.
Examples of Procrastination Excuses
- You don’t put your work out there because you don’t have a website yet.
- Not publishing your work because you haven’t decided which social platform to use.
- Not starting your business because you haven’t incorporated your business yet.
- Perfectionist…tweaking your website even though you’ve spent months and it looks decent enough.
“Procrastination always comes with excuses. Excuses diffuse dreams. Action builds them.”
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®
Are You Working in Your Zone of Genius?
Sometimes procrastination is not a ‘who’ (it is that’s procrastinating), but a ‘what’ that’s the cause. If you’re procrastinating on some things but not everything, it could be an indicator that your work is not yet in alignment with your soul purpose. In that case, procrastination could be a clue that you’re not yet working in your zone of genius.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do those things. Naturally, we all have to do things that we’d rather not do. But if you’re procrastinating doing the endeavor you believe to be your passion, it may be time to examine that and delve deeper into what lights you up. What fuels your inner flame?
If you’re uncertain as to your purpose, no worries! That’s actually common and a normal part of the process.
Your zone of genius is tapped into your inner reservoir of resilience… your personal Holy Grail which cup is perpetually full.
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®
Don’t Beat Yourself Up
If you’ve been in a procrastination rut, don’t beat yourself up. Don’t be hard on yourself when it feels like you’re coming up short, or spinning your wheels. It’s completely normal to get stuck and have doubts at various places along the way. It’s just another lesson to absorb. We learn through failure, trial and error, IF we keep testing, tweaking, adjusting and adapting.
One thing is certain: daily effort produces results. Daily doing dissolves doubt and keeps the horizon in view, even if that day’s ‘doing’ is re-planning for a better tomorrow. Even if that day’s doing needs to be undone or redone, that’s one mistake closer to knowing what works by ruling out what doesn’t.
So as you plan your next goal, envision what you’ll want to have done over the next 30 days. Decide your next action toward that. For goal setting, you may benefit by using the 90 Day Goals Journal. You can get that or a free 30 Day Goals PDF here.
Overcoming Procrastination
Procrastination… deferred dreams… plagues the majority. Become the minority. Become the mover and shaker in your own world.
The fastest way to plow through procrastination is to stop talking, analyzing and anguishing over what to do, and just get busy doing the next most important thing on your goals list.
One of the things that contributes to procrastination is perfectionism. Another contributor is the fear of failure.
Procrastination is the Moriarty to progress. So the fastest way to kill procrastination is to starve it by doing your work… by making progress… by diving in and doing before you have it all figured out. So don’t procrastinate on your dreams. They deserve to be kept alive through daily creative initiative.
Don’t overthink things. Just do. It is in the doing that we figure things out. Fuel your future. Do the work that matters to you.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
~Don Marquis, humorist, poet, journalist, playwright, 1878-1937
Manifest Your Dreams
Procrastinators are often dreamers who stall out when their perfect vision is impeded by real world physical plane resistance. Dreamers subsequently often feel overwhelmed as to how to bring their vision to life… it’s so big… so grand… so far away that they feel defeated before they begin.
Remember… every journey begins with one step and then another. If you’re planning a vacation across the country or overseas, that’s far away too. But you begin planning and doing… planning and doing all the steps necessary to get there. Same for your journey of spinning your dreams to life.
We’ve covered finding yourself and your purpose in other articles. The purpose of this article is to share thoughts and a collection of procrastination quotes to help inspire you to action, and to keep you motivated.
PROCRASTINATION QUOTES
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
~Mason Cooley, American aphorist, 1927-2002
Achievement
Never mistake activity for achievement.
~John Wooden, basketball coach, author, 1910-2010
Action
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
~Arnold Glasow, businessman, published first book at 92 (1905-1998)
Never mistake activity for achievement.
~John Wooden, basketball coach, author, 1910-2010
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
~Napolean Bonaparte, French revolutionary military leader, 1769-1821
“Procrastination becomes a burden removed by action.”
~LeAura Alderson, Cofounder-iCreateDaily.com®
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
~Winston Churchill, British politician, army officer, writer, 1874-1965
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
~Peter Marshall, (Ralph Pierre LaCock) TV-radio, actor, b.3/30/1926
Procrastination is a dream slayer, slave maker and life taker that shadows your mind and obscures your goals. Action is a super power. Take it.
~LeAura Alderson, Cofounder-iCreateDaily.com®
Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
~Michael Landon, actor, director, producer, 1936-1991
Begin and Procrastination Quotes
Begin. To begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
~Decimus Magnus Ausonius, Roman poet, rhetoric teacher, 310-395 AD
Belief and Procrastination Quotes
Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.
~Roy T. Bennett, author, The Light in the Heart
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
~Brian Tracy, motivational speaker, author, b.1/5/44
Choices Quotes
Plant the orchard of your future with the seeds of today’s choices.
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®
Create Daily
The more we create, the better we become at creating.
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®
Creating daily places you in charge of the flow.
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®
Procrastination is no match for consistent daily effort.
~LeAura Alderson, Cofounder-iCreateDaily.com®
When we pick up the pace, we increase our capacity.
~LeAura Alderson, creator, iCreateDaily.com®
Decisions
All we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us.”
~Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Delay
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
~ Mario Andretti, American-Italian race car driver, b.2/28/1940
If you choose to not deal with an issue, then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance.”
~Susan Del Gatto, stress coach, author