In the example of the Clooz customers above, these people are looking at the entire problem and finding the solution unattainable. When that happens, it becomes easier to avoid the problem entirely than to tackle it in bits and chunks. If you re looking at an organizing nightmare and your stress level is mounting, isolate one corner or one stack of paper or one closet that can be tackled. If you can learn to tackle small portions of tasks at a time, you will be able to make progress. If you continue to see the whole picture and get overwhelmed with the task, you ll continue to procrastinate.
Procrastination can lead to undesirable results.
For instance, if you re not in the habit of making regular backups of your computer files, the first time your hard drive crashes, you ll learn about the undesirable side of procrastination. If you only keep copies of your genealogy information in your house and haven t shared it with anyone yet, when you have some sort of catastrophe, such as a flood or fire, that procrastination beast will be paying a house call. Sometimes it s hard to recognize procrastination and perfectionism in ourselves. I recommend that you allow yourself to work on little projects that will work toward bigger projects. If you only have 10 minutes, you can go file some papers, but you don t have to file the whole stack.