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You’re Intimidated: The act of dressing it up as procrastination

Dominic Medford
3 min readJun 13, 2024

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Let’s cut the crap. You’re stuck, aren’t you? Procrastinating, paralysed, unable to move forward.

You tell yourself it’s because you’re a perfectionist, or maybe you just don’t have the time. But here’s the brutal truth: you’re intimidated. Intimidation is the biggest driver of procrastination, inaction, and paralysis, and it’s about time you faced it.

The Cruel Reality

You look at your goals, your dreams, and the vastness of what you want to achieve, and you feel a knot in your stomach.

That knot is fear.

Fear that you’re not good enough, that you’ll fail, that others will see you for the imposter you think you are. This fear is paralyzing you. It’s cruel, but it’s the reality.

Wake up! You’re not paralysed because you’re lazy or overburdened. You’re paralysed because you’re scared. Scared of the magnitude of your ambitions and the possibility of failure.

The Eye-Opening Truth

Now that we’ve ripped off the band-aid, let’s get real. Intimidation is a universal experience. Everyone feels it. The difference between those who achieve greatness and those who remain stuck is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act despite it.

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Dominic Medford
Dominic Medford

Written by Dominic Medford

Law and Political Sciences student in Australia who dabbles in writing about his thought processes in his spare time with the hope that it can be insightful.

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