Anxiety Control Center

Feeling Stuck? Secrets to Moving Through Fear, Anxiety and Procrastination

Hello, and welcome. I’m Dr. Audrey Sussman and I would like to invite you to  a Free TeleSeminar l will be giving on January 28, 2010.

If you’re like most people, you’ve struggled with procrastination.  If you ever feel stuck, or if fear or anxiety ever causes you to procrastinate, then this TeleSeminar is for you.

Feeling Stuck? Learn the Secrets to Moving Past Fear, Anxiety and Procrastination

Get an invitation to this Powerful TeleSeminar by going to the box on the right side of this Page. Just put in you name and email and the invite will be sent to you.

“Conquering Procrastination: A workshop for intelligent, creative people that get stuck”

DATE & TIME: Thursday, January 28th at 9:15pm Eastern
Cost:  F.R.EE
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)
Get Invited by:  Going to the box at the upper right, to sign in.

When they first start working with me, over 60% of my clients reveal that they believe procrastination means that they are inherently lazy or unproductive. Yet, when we start talking about how they live, we find that these same people are able to juggle many of life’s challenges with ease. The people who find their way to my office or seminars are usually high achievers, and in many cases very successful in their careers and life. So procrastination has nothing to do with being inept, lazy or apathetic.

It is actually just the opposite. For most people procrastination is caused by FEAR. Fear can come from early childhood experiences, and the beliefs a child forms because of them. It is a pity that so many talented, intelligent people secretly carry around fear at the deepest level of their unconscious mind.

Fortunately, there are many ways we can lift these unconscious fears, and free you to work through your inner blocks, and become the person you really want to be.

If you’d like to find out how, please join me the Teleseminar on January 28, 2010.  Once you sign up using the box on the right, you can even submit questions you’d like answered during the Teleseminar.

Spots are limited, so please sign up now.

I look forward to sharing these techniques with you.

Sincerely,

Audrey Sussman

Audrey Sussman, PhD, LCSW, NBCCH, is Director of the Anxiety Control Center. She is a National Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Neuro-Linguistic Programmer. She holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Doctorate in Clinical Hypnosis from American Pacific University. Audrey is a nationally recognized seminar leader and author of “Power of Thought: Untold Secrets of the Unconcsious Mind”, “The Workshop Facilitators Handbook”, “Calm, Comfort… Yours for the Asking”, and the “Relief Series” books. In her active private practice, her clients have achieved lasting transformations using the program she has developed.

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Over the past few weeks we’ve been talking about procrastination. In the next few posts instead of thinking about the stress of procrastination, and the things we don’t want, I thought that it would be fun to switch “gears” and talk about creating images and thoughts about pleasant things.

Tomorrow’s post will give you an exercise to stimulate your mind in the positive direction.  It will take just a few moments, and will be a fun yet powerful way to use your very creative mind.

After doing the exercise and will have the positive part of the “map across” technique, that I discussed in earlier posts.   A “map across” is a NLP technique, which borrows a positive feeling from one area and puts it in a situation where that feeling would make a difference in your reactions.   Well I hope you are curious, for curiosity is the first step to any learning.  Come back again tomorrow for the exercise.

Want to be invited to the Conquer Procrastination TeleSeminar?

We are getting closer to the fr.ee teleseminar on  ways to re-programing the Mind to Stop Procrastination .“  If you would like to Conquer Procrastination and Fear this year, sign up to get an invitation to this powerful teleSeminar.

GIFT: Everyone who has sent questions will receive an invitation to our upcoming seminar “Stop Procrastination a program for Creative, Intelligent People Who Get Stuck.”

For those of you new to teleseminars, this is an online event that you can listen to by phone or on your computer.  It will be given January 28, 2010 at 9:15 pm. Attendees will have the opportunity to interact “live” with Dr Audrey Sussman.

Details will be emailed to you shortly if you are on the invite list.

There are two ways to be invited:
1. Sign up by going to the upper right side of this page, put you name and email and click on the “sign in here” tab.  You’ll also receive a powerful yet easy to learn exercise for calming your mind.

2. Send a question to Audrey, the colored link, takes you to her email address. Just write down your question and your name and email, and send it off.   We’ll look forward to interacting with you “in person”.

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Want to be invited to the Conquer Procrastination TeleSeminar?

We are getting closer to the fr.ee teleseminar on  ways to re-programing the Mind to Stop Procrastination .“  If you would like to Conquer Procrastination and Fear this year, sign up to get an invitation to this powerful teleSeminar.

GIFT: Everyone who has sent questions will receive an invitation to our upcoming seminar “Stop Procrastination a program for Creative, Intelligent People Who Get Stuck.”

For those of you new to teleseminars, this is an online event that you can listen to by phone or on your computer.  It will be given January 28, 2010 at 9:15 pm. Attendees will have the opportunity to interact “live” with Dr Audrey Sussman.

Details will be emailed to you shortly if you are on the invite list.

There are two ways to be invited:
1. Sign up by going to the upper right side of this page, put you name and email and click on the “sign in here” tab.  You’ll also receive a powerful yet easy to learn exercise for calming your mind.

2. Send a question to Audrey, the colored link, takes you to her email address. Just write down your question and your name and email, and send it off.   We’ll look forward to interacting with you “in person”.

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Here is the next question about feeling like there isn’t enough time.  Jake once again give great suggestions on how to deal with this.

Question from Participant in the 30 day writing challenge:
I started strong, but then I missed a day and got totally out of rhythm.  Now I’m three days behind and it doesn’t seem worth it anymore.  Maybe I’m not really dedicated to this after all.

Jake Answers:
Usually when a writer is thinking about giving up, it’s more about fear than about rhythm.  But there are times when we simply get off our game.  Here’s the key:  don’t let a couple of missed days get between you and your life as a writer.

If a vegetarian accidentally takes a bite of a burger, it doesn’t mean he is no longer a vegetarian.  It just means he took a bite of a burger.

But countless writers will interpret a day or two of missed writing as evidence that they are not really dedicated to their craft.

Usually the truth is the opposite.  If writing was just a hobby for you, you wouldn’t be agonizing over your missed writing days.  You’d just find another hobby.

In fact, it’s probably your fierce dedication to being a writer that’s causing you so much agony.  Because you’re not writing and you don’t understand why.

Dwelling in the past is not going to help you overcome this problem.  The only way to get back into rhythm is by allowing yourself permission to not be perfect.  There are going to be days that you miss.  There might even be weeks.  The key is recognizing when you get off rhythm, and picking back up as soon as you do.  Grab your journal, hide out for 15 minutes, and write today.

Soon, you’ll discover that you don’t even have to try to find your rhythm.  Your rhythm will find you.

Want to be invited to the Conquer Procrastination TeleSeminar?

We are getting closer to the fr.ee teleseminar on  ways to re-programing the Mind to Stop Procrastination .“  If you would like to Conquer Procrastination and Fear,this year, sign up to get an invitation to this powerful teleSeminar.

GIFT: Everyone who has sent questions or who is doing Jake’s writers challenge, will receive an invitation to our upcoming seminar “Stop Procrastination,” a program for Creative, Intelligent People Who Get Stuck.”

For those of you new to teleseminars, this is an online event that you can listen to by phone or on your computer.  It will be given January 2010.  Details will be emailed to you shortly if you are on the invite list.

Attendees will have the opportunity to interact “live” with Dr Audrey Sussman.

There are two ways to be invited:
1. Sign up by going to the upper right side of this page, put you name and email and click on the “sign in here” tab.  You’ll also receive a powerful yet easy to learn exercise for calming your mind.

2. Send a question to Audrey, the colored link, takes you to her email address. Just write down your question and your name and email, and send it off.   We’ll look forward to interacting with you “in person”.

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Writers block isn’t just about the actual writing.  It’s about the subconscious, underlying emotions that get in the way of writing.  For deep rooted emotional blocks, many students set up private coaching sessions with me.  In these sessions, we use cutting-edge hypnotic techniques to get under the surface, uncover the subconscious roots of your creative blocks, and eliminate them at the source.

Here’s something you can do today to put yourself on the path to discovering the writer within you: give yourself the permission to write badly.

All writers write badly, all the time.  Even the true greats leave hundreds of discarded pages in their hard drives, never to see the light of day.  Accepting that this is a natural part of the process allows you to focus your energy where it belongs: not on judging the pages, but on creating them.

Audrey says that she reminds her clients who are writers, to write for the “trash can.”  This way they are freed up to write anything, anyway they want, since it is for the trash.  It doesn’t have to be good.  So much great writing has come “out of the trash can” writing.  She learned this technique from someone who felt stuck in his music writing, and once he started thinking of writing this way it opened him up to his own creativity.  That’s the great thing about being a coach, you learn from your clients.  What is a stumbling block for one person may actually be just the key they need to feel free for another.

Jake says that when you give yourself permission to write badly, you are actually allowing inspiration in.  You will notice that your writing becomes more fun and exciting, freer, and fuller. Writing ceases to be a chore, and begins to feel like an adventure.  Before long, you’ll discover that you no longer have to drag yourself to your journal in the morning.  You actually want to write!

Of course, there is a time when judging your work is important, when it’s time to invite the editing brain to the table, and give it free reign to pull apart the pages you’ve written.  But it is not during the initial creation of your work.  Remember, it is only by writing the bad stuff that you discover the good.

We are getting closer to the fr.ee teleseminar on “Re-programing the Mind to Stop Procrastination “.  If you would like to Conquer Procrastination and Fear, This powerful teleSeminar is for you.    Want to be invited?

GIFT: Everyone who has sent questions or who is doing Jake’s writers challenge, will receive an invitation to our upcoming seminar  “Re-programing the Mind to Stop Procrastination“. A program for Creative, Intelligent People Who Get Stuck.”

For those of you new to teleseminars, this is an online event that you can listen to by phone or on your computer.  It will be given January 2010.  Details will be emailed to you shortly if you are on the invite list.

Attendees will have the opportunity to interact “live” with Dr Audrey Sussman.

There are two ways to be invited:
1. Sign up by going to the upper right side of this page, put you name and email and click on the “sign in here” tab.  You’ll also receive a powerful yet easy to learn exercise for calming your mind.

2. Send a question to Audrey, the colored link, takes you to her email address. Just write down your question and your name and email, and send it off.   We’ll look forward to interacting with you “in person”.

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Today Jacob Krueger continues to talk about Fear and it’s role in procrastination.

Question (from a participant in the 2010 writing challenge):
I’ve been doing the challenge, but I hate everything I’m writing.  And now I feel like I’m starting to lose steam.

Jake’s Answer:
As writers we play a strange game with ourselves.  Instead of dwelling on our successes, we focus on our failures as evidence that we were not meant to be writers.  Usually this has more to do with fear than anything else.  Fear of failure.   Fear of rejection.  Fear that we don’t have what it takes.

When your judgment of your writing is based on fear, it has little connection to reality.  You may dismiss brilliant writing as terrible simply because you are afraid that others won’t like it.  Or you may fall in love with scenes that are not working, simply because they feel safe to you.

There are many ways to overcome these kinds of fears.  Many writers find that it helps to get honest feedback on their work from writers they respect.  That is one of the benefits of  being part of Jake’s Workshops or Master Classes.  This is a community where you can receive honest feedback about what is actually working or not working in your writing, rather than playing out your worst fears in your head.

Jake continues to explain that writers block isn’t just about the actual writing.  It’s about the subconscious, underlying emotions that get in the way of writing.  For deep rooted emotional blocks, many students set up private coaching sessions.  In these sessions, Jake teaches them to use cutting-edge hypnotic techniques to get under the surface, uncover the subconscious roots of creative blocks, and eliminate them at the source.

Here’s something you can do today to put yourself on the path to discovering the writer within you: give yourself the permission to write badly.  Jake will explain what he means by that in tomorrow’s post

We are getting closer to the fr.ee teleseminar for on “Conquering Procrastination and Fear that Overcomes You” This is a powerful teleworkshop For Intelligent People Who Get Stuck.”  Want to be invited?

GIFT: Everyone who has sent questions or who is doing Jake’s writers challenge, will receive an invitation to our upcoming seminar  “Re-programing the Mind to Stop Procrastination“. For those of you new to teleseminars, this is an online event that you can listen to by phone or on your computer.  It will be given January 2010.  Details will be emailed to you shortly if you are on the invite list.

Attendees will have the opportunity to interact “live” with Dr Audrey Sussman.

There are two ways to be invited:
1. Sign up by going to the upper right side of this page, put you name and email and click on the “sign in here” tab.  You’ll also receive a powerful yet easy to learn exercise for calming your mind.

2. Send a question to Audrey, the colored link, takes you to her email address. Just write down your question and your name and email, and send it off.   We’ll look forward to interacting with you “in person”.

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