Cancel Dinner Plans with Your Inner Critic • Part V

The “C” in proCrastination stands for cancel.

Cancel your expectation of how this journey of exploring procrastination should go.

Why?

Because expectations invite your inner critic to dinner.

Dinner turns into a movie. Movie into a sleepover. Before you know it, breakfast and lunch have passed and your inner critic is still hanging around.

What's the best way to cancel your expectations so your inner critic leaves the premises?

Know your expectations, and cancel them.

Your inner critic gets away with its tactics when you keep your expectations out of full view.

Bring them them into full view.

I expect to…

😮trade 4 decades of procrastination for readiness and resolution overnight

😧start doing things differently just because my inner critic beats me into it

🤔clean a whole room this week that's been filling up with deeply personal memorabilia for 30 years

🫤make a huge personality change without any support

😯be like Suzie even though I'm Tommy

Once you've uncovered the expectations that were hiding underneath that tarp, it's time to cancel them!!

How?

🔹Continue to explore procrastination, and how it shows up in your life.

🔹Show yourself kindness in the process.

🔹Uproot any expectations that try to sneak in under the tarp.

It’s big relief to know that life is more fun and more productive when you expect nothing.

No expectations + faith that all will go well is a winning combination.