How To Stop Procrastinating Your Goals

You’re not lazy, just goal foolish. 

You procrastinate because the goals you've set for yourself stink.

Or the skills required to accomplish the thing you're procrastinating on stinks.

Procrastinating isn't bad. It doesn't mean you're lazy, even though you might be. 

Most of the procrastination, at least in my life, is on things I'm not passionate about or didn't have the necessary skills to achieve. 

Someone on my executive team once told me, Nate, you're not good at the details. 

You can speak about our purpose, our mission, and high-level strategy, but when it comes to training someone to enter an order into the system, you're not so good.

I dread these tasks. 

My ADD flares up and strikes me at the worst time. 

If you want to know how to stop procreating, you need to have goals you're passionate about. 

Last year I had a goal to develop my network. The goal was to add ten new vital connections to my top important network of 150 people. 

This means I would need to go to conferences, join local associations, and be "more social." I would message people whom I'd like to meet on LinkedIn. 

I made the goal and broke it down into eight small milestones. 

Then I procrastinated. 

I looked at the goal and said maybe I'll work on it later this week.

The goal is essential from a business view, but I dislike it. I'm not too fond of conferences. 

I'm an introvert. You wouldn't know it meeting me. I'm a puppet, and my brain is my puppet master. 

The moral of the story is, you have to be passionate about your goals. They have to excite you. They have to utilize your unique skills. You have to want to achieve them. 

If you continue to procrastinate, it just means your goals stink, or…

What you're trying to achieve is beyond your skill level, and it scares you. 

I wanted to create something my current B2B clients could take home with them. 

Something different. 

I decided to build a coffee brand, JetFuel Coffee Co. 

Like there wasn't enough coffee brands already. But this looked and felt different. And it was delicious.

After a decade of marketing, brand design, selling, copywriting, and everything else that entails building a brand. I did it. 

I was passionate about it, and even though there were skills I failed miserably at, the brand is now a reality. 

I was passionate about it, and my skill set could accommodate the tasks. 

When my skills weren’t where they needed to be, I learned or hired someone. 

Another goal I had last year was to learn Spanish. 

I failed. 

Miserably. 

My wife is Colombian, my kids are 50% Colombian, and I'm the dummy that doesn't want to learn Spanish. 

I'm not passionate about it. My brain doesn't want to develop the skills to learn a language. I find it difficult. It's a chore. 

There are many other things I want to learn that will add a vibrant piece to my life, like public speaking, which is a current goal I'm all in on. 

Being fluent speaking another language isn't one of them. 

I can translate it on my phone, and soon there will be economical headsets that will translate language in our ears. 

Language will soon be commoditized, and yet, these excuses are apart of my procrastination. 

Do you see how it works? 

Find goals that excite you, don't be afraid of difficult things, and execute on those goals every day.