167: My Million Dollar Blog Post (and How Procrastination Almost Stopped me Writing It)

How to Overcome Blogger Procrastination

In today’s lesson I want to talk about an issue that I think is at the heart of why many blogs don’t reach their potential. In fact it’s an issue that I think is at the heart of why many people don’t reach their potential in many areas of life.

Listen to this episode here on iTunes.

I want to talk about procrastination and why we so often don’t do what we know we should do.

• In this episode I’ll share a quote from my mum that changed my life.
• In this episode I’ll share a couple of stories of my own procrastination and how I pushed through it to achieve some pretty remarkable things.
• In this episode I’ll share with you a challenge that I hope will help us all to get something off our ‘someday’ list and put it onto our ‘today’ list

If you’re someone who procrastinates and perhaps feels that they’re letting opportunities pass them by because you’re not taking the action you know you should take – this episode is for you.

Further Resources on How Procrastination Stopped Me Writing a Million Dollar Blog Post

• How to Start a Blog
• 10 Surefire Ways to Overcome Blogging Procrastination
• 7 Tips for Avoiding Procrastination. Without Delay is the Easiest Way.

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkU

Challenge: Identify one thing that you have been avoiding.

• Tell someone about it – tell someone in your ‘real life’.
• Tell us in the Facebook Challenge Group (here’s the specific thread to comment on)
• Put a date on it of when you are going to do it by
• Get to work!

Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Hi there and welcome to Episode 167 of the ProBlogger podcast, an episode that I think could just be the most important episode I’ve ever done. My name is Darren Rowse and I’m the blogger behind problogger.com, a blog, podcast, event, job board, series of ebooks and a book all designed to help you as a blogger to grow your audience and make money from your blog. You can learn more about ProBlogger at problogger.com.

In today’s lesson, I want to talk about an issue that I think is at the heart of why many bloggers don’t reach their potential. In fact, it’s an issue that I think is at the heart of why many people don’t reach their potential in many areas of their life. Today, I want to talk about procrastination and why so often we don’t do what we know we should do.

In today’s episode, I’ll share a quote from my mum that changed my life. In today’s episode, I’ll share a couple of stories of my own procrastination and how I pushed through that to achieve some fairly remarkable things. In this episode, I’ll share with you a challenge that I hope will help us all to get something off our someday list, something we’ve been procrastinating on and to put it on our today list. If you’re someone who procrastinates and perhaps feels like you’re letting opportunity pass you by because you’re not taking action that you know you should take, this episode is for you.

I want to start today‘s show with a quote from my mum. I quite often quote Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein and other such people on my Twitter account at @problogger but I added to my tweets recently this quote from my mum because I realized that it’s something that had really shaped me and really put the finger on an issue that had been a bigger part of my life and that had potentially held me back in many ways.

This is the quote, “Your life will be better if you take action on the things you avoid.” It’s a very simple idea. Your life will be better, your blog will be better, your business will be better, your relationships will be better if you take action on the things that you avoid.

That’s a bit of a paraphrase because my mum used to say this in many different ways and she started saying it as, I was probably around the age of 4 or 5 and she began to notice that I was a procrastinator. My earliest memory of procrastination was when I used to get a 20 cent piece for pocket money on every Frida...