What’s underneath your procrastination might surprise you…

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What’s underneath your procrastination might surprise you…

Let me know if this sounds familiar cuz this was me this week:

“I don’t have a lot of calls this week, I’m going to get sooo much done!”

And now it’s Thursday, and I’m thinking, what happened… Sure, I’d love to blame it on the second week of January, I’m trying to get my stuff together, and a lot of balls are flying in the air…

So, I was dog-sitting for a friend this week for 12 hours.

Of course, I jumped at the chance cuz if I’m deeply honest, I really love having 4-legged company in the house.

In my head, I was thinking, piece of cake, the dog is well trained, and I’ll take her for a long walk, and I have no calls, so yeah, it will be a peaceful and productive day, right?

Yeah, you know where this is headed… She arrives at o dark thirty and immediately cuddles on my lap in my blanket as I’m still drinking my coffee and doing my morning pages.

The whole house felt different having a dog here again, that small, bouncy, cuddly energy.

Yet, what I didn’t realize is that Emma, my 11-year-old pup who died 6 months ago, having a dog in the house again, even just for a day, wasn’t just “cute and distracting.”

It was emotional, comforting, tender, and it was the kind of moment where your heart shows up first, and your to-do list comes second.

By the end of the day, no big surprise, I’d gotten way less accomplished than I’d planned.

My first instinct was to judge myself: “Why can’t I stay focused? What am I so beyond? I’m teaching this stuff and shouldn’t I be much better at getting things done?”

It was then that I caught myself because here’s the truth that I keep coming back to:

The plans you and I create are based on what we can see today.
And what shapes our behavior is usually based on what you and I can’t see.

That’s the real reason I am creating The Soulful Marketing Method. I’ve been sharing with you insights from these past two weeks.

It’s a systems thinking tool based on the Iceberg Method. It’s where surface-level “events” such as procrastination, distraction, avoidance, etc.) are only the visible part of your experience.

Underneath that are the patterns, structures, behaviors, and beliefs driving the whole picture.

Since I’m not into icebergs, and it felt a bit overused, I wanted to make it more relatable to folks like me. I reimagined the Iceberg as a Mountain for one simple reason:

I’m a hiker and LOVE being outside in the woods, climbing, walking, and seeing nature.

And when you’re climbing a mountain, there are things you can’t see, like the top of the mountain while you’re climbing it. You’re too busy navigating the next step… the switchback… the weather… the terrain that’s right in front of you.

So when you’re procrastinating or putting something off for tomorrow, the next day, or next week, it’s rarely just about the task. It’s about all the layers of the mountain that are buried deep.

You have to start looking under the surface beneath those layers because it’s about what you can’t see: your behavior and how you feel.

Sometimes it’s grief, fear, or perfectionism that’s trying to protect you. Or maybe it’s an old belief that says: “If I can’t do this perfectly, I need to keep revising it until I get it right, even if it takes months or years.”

The big “aha” moment is that instead of trying to force the task and chalk it up to laziness, you work with all you uncover underneath.

Also, what jumped out at me the most is that procrastination isn’t always resistance. This is where purpose matters because procrastination isn’t always resistance; sometimes it’s misalignment or fear sitting on top of something tender, or maybe you’ve lost your core purpose of why you’re trying to accomplish “the thing” in the first place.

When you start to name what’s under the surface, the next step gets smaller, safer, and strangely easier.

When that happens, it’s the moment you stop staring at the trail and start paying attention to the actual terrain.

And this is the learning: instead of muscling through the task, you work with what’s underneath it because that’s what’s actually driving your procrastination.

Here’s a simple way to do that in two minutes. I call it a Mountain Check In:

What’s the surface task I’m avoiding?
What feeling is underneath it?
What belief is attached to that feeling?

Then pick one tiny move: 10 minutes only. Not to finish. Just to prove to your system that it’s safe to begin.

I’m still building the Soulful Mountain Method, and I want it to be practical, grounded, and actually supportive—not another thing you “should” do.

If you want to be notified when it’s ready, simply leave me a comment and say yes.

Until then, keep using the Mountain Check In. It’s small, and it’s powerful.

And with what’s happening around the world, if youre feeling a little lost about your purpose lately, you’re not failing, you’re human.

Come back to why you started your business, project, or whatever you’re working on that has you slowing down. Come back to who you’re here to help.