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Flex Your Emotional Muscle

to Overcome Procrastination

ow that we’ve talked about the cognitive component of pro-
Ncrastination, let’s take a look at the second important com-
ponent of the procrastination process—your emotions. Have you
ever had a feeling of anxiety when you were faced with a task, so
that you ended up avoiding it? For example, a person may avoid
following through on creating performance reviews because he
feels anxious about the conflicts that may arise when evaluating
employees.
Ending procrastination partially involves building stamina and
resiliency, or what I like to call “emotional muscle.” With practice
and exercise, you can toughen up so that you can withstand your
emotional drives to retreat from productive pursuits. However,
building emotional muscle is a constructive striving to build on
the positive emotional capacities involved in the activation of pur-
poseful and productive efforts to produce and prosper.
Building your emotional muscle when reacting to the anxiet-
ies, fears, and unpleasant emotions that cause procrastination will
allow to you tolerate the tensions, pressures, and frustrations that
take place along the path of life. While you are building emotional
muscle, you learn to let go of short-term rewards in favor of larger