How Procrastination Sabotages Your Money Success

It's something we ALL have in common...Procrastination. It effects us in a variety of different ways. Some will procrastinate washing the dishes, some will procrastinate writing a report and some people will procrastinate paying the bills.

Procrastination always has consequences, however the consequences of procrastinating washing the dishes are very different from the consequences of procrastinating paying the bills.

Over the years I have coached many clients on breaking free from their sabotage barriers towards money. I have come to understand that procrastination is often at the core of their money problems.

When trying to overcome money challenges, many people spend a lot of time thinking about the consequences (outcomes) they have created such as high credit card debt, lack of money for college tuition, lost opportunities, dependency on a job (or relationship) that is not in alignment with who they truly want to be, broken relationships, and the list goes on and on.

Analyzing the consequences is not a very effective way to create positive change. When you are experiencing consequences that you dislike, you must move yourself backward through the behaviors that created the consequences. This style of analysis will make it much easier to recognize your money self sabotage behaviors, and it becomes easier to make changes that create significantly new (and better) consequences.

I will provide you with an example of how procrastination can have sabotaging consequences on your money success.

Susan is a very capable professional sales representative. By most standards she was doing very well financially, however, she felt she was "stuck" at her current income range of $50,000 and $80,000 per year. She worked on commission and knew that many other sales reps in her company and her industry were making well over $100,000 per year. This made her very frustrated as she knew that she was very capable of making this level of income as well.

Susan was dumbfounded at her inability to get "unstuck" financially because she knew that she worked just as hard (if not harder) than her peer sales reps. Susan needed to shift her focus so I took her through a process that allowed her to backtrack through the behaviors that brought her to this place. It was easy to see that she was very strong in her ability to do everything she needed to do to produce consistent sales revenue, with the exception of one specific behavior that she realized she habitually procrastinated.

Susan was super-proactive at closing the sales of prospects who followed up with her for their proposals and requested information, but she was a super-procrastinator when it came to initiating the follow up with the prospects that did not pursue her. Her product was in high enough demand that she was able to make a decent living from the commissions of prospects who wanted to do business with her and were willing to chase her down for information.

The next step for Susan was to explore her internal need to procrastinate this particular behavior. As she began her exploration she became visibly agitated and it was clear that she had strong internal justifications for her procrastination.

It would have been easy to assume that she procrastinated this follow up work because she was afraid of the potential rejection, however, self sabotage barriers are seldom that logical so she dug a bit deeper. As she continued through the process she began to realize that her desire to procrastinate the follow up work was actually coming from a deep fear of damaging some of her most cherished relationships. Susan explained that she already made much more money than most of the people in her family and she secretly worried that if she ever made it into the six-figure income range it would somehow damage those relationships. This fear caused her to set up an unconscious way of holding herself back from making "too much money" so she could keep those important relationships safe.

Once Susan found the authentic "positive intention" behind her self sabotage, she then began to work to create new, more effective internal processes that would allow her to make money and keep her relationships strong and healthy.

Within four months Susan broke all of her past sales revenue records and was on her way to making well into a six-figure income!

Every consequence (outcome) you create in your life started from a series of behaviors. If you are experiencing undesired consequences of your money behaviors, use the steps below to make shifts that will compel your mind to move you toward the accomplishment of your money goals.

1. Let yourself vent about the undesired consequences, but don't allow yourself to get stuck there.

2. Backtrack through all the behaviors it took to end up with your particular consequence. Write out all the behaviors and map them sequentially.

3. Pick out the specific behaviors that you procrastinate.

4. Uncover your hidden emotional barriers and their genuine "positive intentions." Remember, your actual emotional barrier may not be logical so be accepting of whatever comes up in your search. You will know you have uncovered the true barrier when you can identify the positive outcome (positive intention) this barrier actually wants for you (i.e., safeguarding relationships, protecting you from rejection, etc.).

5. Use your knowledge of the desired positive intention to install healthier, more effective ways to reach the desired positive outcome.

You don't have to be at the mercy of your existing internal processes. When you break free from your mind's need to procrastinate you can change your world in the most amazing ways!

What BEHAVIORS do you procrastinate that result in the sabotage of your money success?


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Troyann Williams is a highly renowned Break Free from Self Sabotage Specialist. Troyann has devoted her life to developing products and services that help people break free from their self-sabotage barriers for reaching even greater levels of success. For a FREE GUIDE: Recognizing the 5 Most Significant Ways You May Be Sabotaging Your Own Efforts to Be Successful, go to ==> http://selfsabotagebehavior.com