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of procrastination. You will feel relief when the job is no
longer hanging over your head.
Or2. Do it anyway—but for your own reasons.reason 2. You’re afraid of the Job
This is a hard thing for many of us to admit—to ourselves let
alone to someone else. But it may be what’s keeping you from
doing a job you need and want to accomplish. If you can identify
your reluctance as fear or low self-esteem and track it to its source,
you can deal with the fear and get on with the job. Here are three
of the most common varieties of performance anxiety:
- Fear of failure
Consider the student who never studies and flunks out. He can
always tell himself, “If I had studied, I would have passed the stu-
pid course.” But what if he had studied—and still failed?
For most of us, “won’t” is a lot easier to deal with than “can’t.”
If you don’t try it, you don’t have to confront the possibility that
you can’t do it. You will always be able to tell yourself and others
that you could have been a great success at just about anything you
wanted to do. - Fear of success
On the other hand, if you do pass the course, folks will expect
you to do it again, or to go out and get a job, or to apply what
you’ve learned. If you never try, you’ll never have to face the con-
sequences of success, either. - Fear of finishing
“If I pass the course, I’ll graduate. If I graduate, I’ll.. .”
You’ll what?
If you don’t pass the course, you’ll never have to find out what
happens next.