How to overcome procrastination

Be it organising your office or finally starting that novel, we always seem to find another excellent excuse for not doing it today.

Gary Sall, co-founder of positivechangesolutions.co.uk, believes procrastination comes from a fear of failure. Here, he gives us his top tips for combating that fear of failure and overcoming our inner procrastinator.

Gary Sall runs motivation training courses using a combination of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

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