Submitted by: John Tebar

Most people seek great deals and opportunities, yet why do so many people keep kicking tires and not taking action? Well that my friends is procrastination. The person that kicks the tires over and over again is simply procrastinating. How long does it take to make a decision? You check into the opportunity, determine whether it is right for you or not, then join or go to the next deal. But what happens when you would like to get into an opportunity then you simply freeze? Well believe it or not though one would call that paralysis of analysis, it is procrastination.

Procrastination is an action, it is a formed or conditioned behavior. Your not convinced about something, but there has to be a conflict for you to freeze or become indecisive. It is when intention and counter-intention meet. At that point, one freezes. Have you ever decided you wanted something, and then suddenly something else comes up to negate your choice? You have an intent or objective then what occurs is a thought comes up to counter that idea, this is what we have learned as children.

Let us say we want to buy a particular item, it cost $ 10.00 then we look at the fact that we don’t have $ 10.00. What do we focus on? We focus on lack due to our upbringing, whose parents has not made the statement we can’t afford it. We make $ 35K a year and we don’t have $ 10.00. What is going on here? The intention to purchase just ran into the counter intention to not purchase. Let us analyse what is countering it. First you have the conditioning from the parents saying One can’t afford it. Next, we have the feelings from the earlier time in your childhood that is attached to that experience. The combination of the two develops stress. Now what? There’s the deal, great deal, awesome opportunity, yet no action is taken. What we have is procrastination, the intention meeting that counter-intention.

The reason for this, is that when we were children, most parents are not trained in the area of possiblity thinking or lack inductive reasoning. As a child if there was something that we wanted, a parent could have asked us to earn it in some way. They could have shown us by setting up a lemonade stand, that we could earn the money to buy what we wanted. There are so many other possibilities to help us think differently and get what it is that we want. The behavior is not to buy. feel frustrated and upset. As a child you are stopped in your enthusiasic track! You are generally not given a solution.

To think inductively in the example above, one could say wait a minute, I can go home and get $ 10.00 sitting on my dresser. You could also say, let me set aside money this coming paycheck and buy it. Of course there are probably more ways on how you can get it, instead of how you can’t.

Once procrastination takes over, it becomes that repetitive behavior that gets put in place on any similiar circumstance. So there is no wonder why you have such difference results from person to person. The levels of this behavior can vary, where depending on the theater one can make a decision quickly and in another theater one can not. These circumstances could be love, money, or even spirituality. A conflict arises the behavior sets in.

Those who are interested in your opportunity or book or report will take it for free; If they believe the answer to their problem, is resident. Ask them to spend a buck and suddenly they are not interested or they simply act by not doing. Not doing something is an action, procrastination is the action. You would have to show that what you can give them is of greater value than the money they will pay. IF a person is frozen on a decision, they have to be logically motivated to take action. Doing something directly perferably guided will break that person from that particular decision.

You have a goal and what inhibits you is some problem. I wouldn’t say that it is always procrastination, but through my expereince a major amount of it is just that. When you have a problem, look for the intention and counter intention and anayze what the cause is. Don’t be a tire kicker for the rest of your life, take action from what is truly in your heart and in your mind.

About the Author: John Tebar personal and business coach consultant, author, public speaker, Entrepreneur has weekly newsletter sign up at

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