Congrats Steve - excited to dig in.

Fear. Doubt. Inadequacy. It's no wonder we delay taking meaningful action and procrastinate. However, on the other side of the resistance to act, you will find these negative emotions relent to feelings of pride, progress, and satisfaction. The key is to consistently find the courage to start.

5. Fear of Success: You are afraid success might cause you to be held to a higher standard or take away the crutches and excuses you've used in the past. Success can eject you from the comforts you've become accustomed to, so you shy away from pushing harder and doing more. You put it off.

4. Fear of Failure: You know that making investments in nutrition, mental training, & fitness is going to benefit your already strong game. However, what if you don’t achieve your goals after doing everything right? That’s scary, especially for your ego. So, you delay going all in.

3. Anxiety: Doing a particular activity creates worries, doubts, and an uneasy feeling in your stomach. You avoid the medical checkup because you’re worried about what the results might say. You avoid meeting with the coach because you don’t know how it will go. Anxiety creates a resistance to act.

2. Negative social comparisons: The people you train with are far more accomplished in the gym than you. Every time you have to take weight off the bar makes you feel bad about yourself. You delay going to the workout to avoid that feeling of inadequacy. Low competence often leads to delayed action.

1. Boredom: The physiotherapy exercises you’ve been prescribed are tedious and almost any other activity is more enjoyable. You procrastinate on your physio to avoid boredom. Of course, recovering from an injury is important, but you’d rather avoid boredom for as long as possible.

But incredibly organized people procrastinate, even if they’ve attended various time management workshops. And incredibly passionate people procrastinate, even on things most important to them. It turns out procrastination is a (somewhat unconscious) strategy to avoid/delay unwanted emotions like:

Procrastination can feel like (a) A time management issue - if you were better at managing your time you wouldn’t be scrambling to do things at the last minute or (b) A priority issue - if this was important to you, you wouldn’t wait so long to do it.

Ya man, spreadsheets and log books can only bring so much joy - from a confessed spreadsheet junkie. Thanks for the reply.