Have you ever noticed that we never procrastinate about goofing off, shopping when you should be saving, overeating, having “one too many” or visiting those web sites you…hmmm…shouldn’t be visiting?
It’s human nature to prefer to do what’s easy and pleasurable in the short-term (even though you’ll surely regret it later on) rather than knuckle down and do what’s best.
It makes no sense, but doing what’s good for yourself and others takes work: doing what ain’t so good is momentarily easy but painful and unfortunate later on.
The renowned Brazilian psychoanalyst Dr. Norberto Keppe says the reason we act this way is because we suffer from an inverted will. Unconsciously we prefer wrong over right.
So what’s a procrastinating slacker to do when it comes to growing your voice over career? That’s the subject of this week’s Inside Voice Over video training blog.
Watch this week’s short training video Here Now
After you watch the video be sure to leave a comment. I always love to hear from you so I can support you as you grow your voice over career.
To your voice over success,
Susan Berkley,
Founder, The Great Voice Company
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Thank you Susan. A few years ago I took a voice over class at a Technical College which got me interested in possibly making this an addition to my current career. I would like to orate books and also work with marketing businesses. Now having a private room,computer,headphones and mic for Voice over I have been procrastinating with getting the recording software downloaded into my computer and going the next step which is to learning how to operate that system. August is a busy month for me but in September I will get started! Thank you!
Wow! How TIMELY….while I do NOT consider myself to BE a procrastinator, I am hitting the wall HARD right now in regard to being productive in the fashion that fueled my great success for over 4 decades.Being a procrastinator was never an option for me. I factored in to my life so much responsibility and necessary constant activity that to procrastinate, even to SLOW DOWN, was to be RUN OVER by a Greyhound bus size load of negative impact and results.
It was always better to keep up the constant pace than to have giant tire marks on my back….
Somehow, maybe through my catastrophic career ending injury, I seem to have lost the edge that brought to me a measure of success that few people attain.i have been blessed to have placed in front of me in recent months, the dream opportunities of a lifetime.
I believe Dr. Keppe’s classic THE ORIGIN OF ILLNESS may best describe my current malady.
I am blessed with such incredible folks such as yourself, Darren Hardy, Dr. Keppe, Matt Furey, Dan Sullivan, and new and rising “star” Benjamin Hardy, soon to be PHD. Been Hardy, PLUS my faith, plus my own HISTORY of great successes to draw from, and yet EVERY STEP that I need to make seems to come with a dibilitating and maddening “limp” that was never there before.
For a FACT I am in the “BEST of hands” that can help me to get through this very challenging time. Perhaps I have BECOME a full fledged procrastinator and can’t “see” (THE ORIGIN IF ILLNESS)it……
Regardless, I am forever blessed and grateful to be considered WORTHY if every day being so hard and challenging, because out of great tribulation comes, eventually, great and motivational testimonies of breakthroughs and phenomenal results, if I will only “stay the course”. I love you, Susan Berkley, you are like family to me. You inspire me and you have already done SO MUCH to help me to get to where I need to go. Yours for great success!!!
Lewis
Very interesting point on why people tend to procrastinate. This will be useful to me in many areas of my life, not just in my future VO career 🙂
I appreciate your advise,generally speaking. In my case,you know what they say about PEOPLE WHO ASSUME.
I HAD 2 major knee surgeries in April and am still receiving rehab,barely able to walk or come to a standing position! Therefore, my primary goal is to regain my function to WALK! Neither
my voice acting certification nor skills will disappear but my knee function can.
In other words,not everyone who is not active in spending money or time in voice acting is procrastinating.
Susan, I appreciate your bring to my attention that some great achievers were procrastinators. It makes me realize that if they had to go to the extremes that they went thru to make it I surely can quit procrastinating by realizing that I’m procrastinating because of the problems that I’m concerned about to become VO. I was aware of this but you brought to my attention at a time that I really needed to get up and get started..So I will be calling you soon.
Thanks a lot I’m looking forward to working with you and the Great Voice Staff.