Ursula Schiller

Why you should move to a different culture!

    I bet you have your own good reason why you should move but procrastination and nay saying might already have discarded your reasons as nonsense. Don´t give into that! Last time I wrote about the money issue which always comes up when I talk to people about moving. Gladly we have that out [...]

I don´t have enough money! Really, that´s the reason?

      In the last post I wrote about you being your biggest naysayer, procrastination and myths when you want to move abroad. Every single time I moved abroad, people told me that was impossible because of the money. Money seems to be the first thing people can think of to give them a [...]

CAUTION! Procrastination at work! It’s not possible! I can’t! Me? Not today! Maybe tomorrow!

Todays post is inspired by Torre DeRoche’s post about your biggest naysayer and Annie Andre about moving abroad! Naysayers are everywhere! They are everywhere because if you achieve in finding a way to e.g. live in another country, that will show the naysayers what they don’t have or do. That’s painful for them! That’s admitting [...]

2 simple tricks to outsmart your procrastination process!

    As you know, we talk here a lot about procrastination, giving you tips how to overcome it and examples of courageous people who took action to overcome procrastination. Remember that procrastinating means that you are thinking a lot about a task, postponing it and exchanging it with another low priority task. The problem [...]

Maria, a Nicaraguan inspiration! She didn’t procrastinate, she took action!

    Things seem to go well for Maria, don’t they???   Some weeks ago I wrote about Maria, a strong Nicaraguan woman who set up a small diner and managed to convince the local soft drink distributer to give her soft drinks worth $350 USD on credit. Things went well for her I thought [...]

Stop getting busy – start taking action! A simple step you can take within 10 minutes!

    Stop using getting busy! Pure procrastination!   What is your daily routine when you start your computer? I bet it is similar to mine. When I start my computer I have a plan! I have a to-do list! I know I will take action! Then I hear the typical Windows starting sound, tick [...]

Procrastination! Avoid feeling like shit! – Never stop in the middle of your project!

    Putting your project aside for a moment, week, hmm let’s be honest a month or more   When you think about procrastination you probably think about the pain of getting started with an unknown, boring or difficult project. You might imagine the project on your to-do list day after day without really finding [...]

Stop procrastination! / How having less helps you to stop procrastination!

    Diminish your belongings and stop procrastinating!   As you might know I recently moved to Central America with 50 pounds of my belongings. Now I live in a 10 m² room. Here I bought 6 cups, knives, forks, spoons, 3 plates and 2 pots. That’s it, I don’t need more. Why do I [...]

I feel sad so I procrastinate! – What to do when you feel sad and procrastinate?

    Yesterday I received an email from another precious reader of this blog: Myra. She gave me the permission to share her story with you. To protect her privacy I changed her name and edited some parts of the email. Thank you very much Myra for being so brave and sharing your procrastination story [...]

How to achieve goals?

    “…but I don’t know how to achieve my goal”   Yesterday I received an email from my precious reader Natalie. She said that the she liked my articles about procrastination and that she really wants to achieve her goals but she doesn´t know how. She explained me that the tactics she used until [...]

Procrastination help – There is no way around taking action

      Case study of somebody who apparently is seeking procrastination help Today I want to tell you about a coaching client I had. During our first meeting John (not his real name) said he came to me for procrastination help. At first he told me about his plans with his new business, how [...]

Overcoming procrastination – An easy tip you can act immediately on

    Overcoming procrastination by the use of contrual level theory Note: This is just one part of the procrastination puzzle. I will provide you with several other pieces of the puzzle in the following posts. The idea is to give you an easy tip for overcoming procrastination. While reading my fair share about overcoming [...]

Interview with Adam Stanecki about his greatest fear, getting started and motivation

    I would like to introduce Adam Stanecki from Simplify my small business.com. He is a serial entrepreneur from Melbourne, Australia who runs several websites at the moment. I got to know him by listening to one of his short and crisp podcasts about fear. Afterwards I got in touch with him and found [...]

Wishful thinking and procrastination – how your evaluation of a task influences your procrastination time

    As you know from this post procrastination is characterized as delaying a task, or exchanging an important task with a less important one. This delay obviously will reduce the likelihood that the task will be finished on time. You might now think that probably no one will acknowledge that he delays a task knowingly [...]

MEIN LIEBSTER BLOG AWARD! – Favorite Blog Award :) YEAHHH

      On 18 November 2011 Sarah O´Leary, a dear friend of the blog nominated this blog for the Liebster Blog Award! Thank you very much Sarah! I really appreciate it!   Some of you might already know Sarah from my post about my mastermind group. She writes over at wellnessthenaturalway.com about herbs and wellness [...]

How you can stop your procrastination process!

    Last Friday I wrote about the influence of one’s environment on one’s fear and resistance. Today I will write about procrastination which is related to resistance and fear. Procrastinators are described as people who needlessly delay, postpone or exchange an important task for a less important one. This is seen as an active [...]

The influence and support of your environment

Yesterday I received an email from Claudia, a precious reader of the blog. She was surprised about Maria’s courage – the woman I mentioned in my last post who started a small diner with the approach of ready, fire, aim. Claudia was astonished how much influence your environment apparently can have on you. This might [...]

Addicted to certainty?! – A different look at the fear of the uncertain

If you turn on the TV, read the newspaper or blogs you will read a lot about uncertain times as if it would be something new. And indeed it is quite new that people have to deal with the current crisis and its consequences. We in the western world became very used to having a [...]

When fear of uncertainty hit they make you say: “I could never do that!”

    Last week I moved with 50 pounds of my belongings from Germany to Central America to live there for the next 8 months. When I talked to people about this move there were only two reactions I got. The first reaction was that they changed the subject which probably means they were not [...]