How to Eliminate Procrastination

How to Eliminate Procrastination

September 05, 2025โ€ข3 min read

๐ŸThe Story - One Way to Eliminate Stuckness and Procrastination ๐ŸŽ

What if you were to take just one bite of the apple, she said? What if, instead of thinking of the whole apple or the whole tree, you just had one bite, how would that feel? You see, I can easily get overwhelmed by thinking about:

๐ŸŽThe tree (a metaphor for my business)

๐ŸŽAll of the apples (a metaphor for each of the strands or task lists that exist for the business) - you know things like:

๐Ÿ‘‰ social media posts

๐Ÿ‘‰ creating a sales page

๐Ÿ‘‰ making a new product

๐Ÿ‘‰ writing your blogs and newsletters

๐Ÿ‘‰ creating automations for your new course

๐Ÿ‘‰ marketing

Or, how about I use the metaphor of the tree, but chunk it down to

๐ŸŽjust one apple from the tree at a time

๐ŸOr better yet, just one bite of that one apple

๐—ข๐—ฟโ€ฆ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐˜„๐—ฒโ€™๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐˜€ - one bite at a time:

What if I waited until the apple was fully ripen and fell from the tree and just picked up that one apple one bite into it one bite at a time.

๐™’๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ก๐™™ ๐™๐™–๐™ฅ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ž๐™› ๐™„ ๐™™๐™ž๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ?

My answer was so freeing - Iโ€™d feel the weight of stress drop off. Iโ€™d actually get shit done because Iโ€™d only be focused on that one thing - one small aspect of the whole.

This post IS that one small aspect. Itโ€™s just one piece, one post. Resisting the temptation to then sayโ€ฆ.. Ah yes and now I can turn that post into a blog, then into a video thenโ€ฆโ€ฆ.

No, if I bring it back to just one bite.

๐™๐’‰๐™š ๐™ฅ๐’๐™ž๐’๐™ฉ ๐™ค๐’‡ ๐’•๐™๐’Š๐™จ ๐™ฅ๐’๐™จ๐’•?

Well, procrastination or stagnation invariably happens when we look at the whole tree. Iโ€™m not saying we shouldnโ€™t ever look at the whole tree - heck Iโ€™m a big picture thinker and a projector. But when I do that, invariably it stops me in my tracks.

Iโ€™ve recently been working on my own shadow side (which I help others to do as well). Shadow work is so fascinating, enlightening and life changing but many avoid it. What Iโ€™ve found it thatโ€™s my biggest asset, being able to shake the tree and look at what falls out. Being able to dig the soil up a little to see what the condition of the soil is like, what I might need to add or take away (metaphorically speaking of course). Thatโ€™s the gold. If you can bring yourself to do that, then magic does begin to happen.

Avoiding taking one bite or waiting until things were perfect were getting in my way. For a long time I stopped myself because I didnโ€™t have a simple way to explain what it is that I do. I didnโ€™t fit within a label like โ€˜Life Coachโ€™ or โ€˜Transformation Coachโ€™ or โ€˜Personal Growth Coachโ€™. I just didnโ€™t feel I fitted that mould. But I also hadnโ€™t found a way to explain it in a simple, no fuss way.

Then I realised, it hit me that my story was masking the 'avoiding taking one bite of the apple' thing, it was just in disguise. So today I thought, ok what if I just go out there and explain what it is, without putting a label on it. Just type and see what happens. So here goes:

I use my gift of intuitive knowing to get underneath the BS - under the programming that runs things in the foreground, which stops people showing up as their authentic magnificent selves. In a nutshell thatโ€™s what I do - I'm a BS Shifter. I shift your BS Stories by facilitating the space and method for you to dig underneath to reveal the truth about what's holding you back.

There itโ€™s out now, unrefined, uncomplicated, unfiltered. And itโ€™s not labelled, just results driven.

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๐‘บ๐’•๐’‚๐’š ๐’•๐’–๐’๐’†๐’… ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’• ๐’•๐’˜๐’ ๐’˜๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐‘ฐ ๐’…๐’†๐’๐’—๐’† ๐’…๐’†๐’†๐’‘๐’†๐’“ ๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’Š๐’•๐’† ๐’๐’‡ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‚๐’‘๐’‘๐’๐’†

Fiona Christie, life coach, course creator, quantum change facilitator

Fiona Christie

Fiona Christie, life coach, course creator, quantum change facilitator

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