creating a passive source of income, and taking back control of your life!

I'm Marelisa Fabrega, author of "Make It Happen!" and owner of the popular blog, Daring to Live Fully. I used to be a procrastinator. I'd leave everything to the last minute, I was constantly late, and I always had an excuse for not getting started on my goals. When I realized the harm that procrastinating was doing to my life, I decided to find a way to overcome procrastination once and for all.

I started reading everything I could about procrastination, experimenting with what I read, and making adjustments, until I discovered a process for beating procrastination. Now, every time that there's a new goal that I want to pursue, I simply apply the process and get to work on my goal. That's how I came to write "Make It Happen!"

Since overcoming procrastination, here are some of the things that I've done:

    Create several eBooks which are great sources of passive income.

    I'm a runner and regularly participate in 10Ks.

    I'm a weight lifter

    I taught myself to draw.

    I meditate daily, as well as practice Qigong and Tai chi.

    I'm an avid reader -- right now I'm tackling Shakespeare.

    I'm constantly upgrading my skills so I can become a better blogger, reach a wider audience, and increase my blogging income.

    I've taken up French (my fourth language).

    I constantly give myself challenges, such as a challenge to raise my IQ, trying something new every day for 30 days, a 30-day declutter challenge, and a flat-abs in 30 days challenge.

    I volunteer at a center that helps victims of domestic violence, offering legal and business advice.

As you can see, overcoming procrastination has allowed me to flourish, and it can do so for you, as well. What important task or project have you been procrastinating on? Whether it's starting a blog, going back to school, applying for a grant, decluttering your home, or training for a marathon, "Make It Happen!", will help you get started and see the task or project through to completion.


Rest assured, there's no such thing as a procrastination gene. Procrastinating is a learned behavior and, just as you learned it, you can unlearn it. Whoever you are, or whatever your life situation is at the moment, this workbook is going to help you drop the procrastination habit, and replace it with the habit of taking action.
When you stop procrastinating you'll be gaining back hours of lost time and putting them to good use.

If you're like most people, you've probably asked yourself the following: "How can I find more time?" The answer, of course, is that there are 168 hours in a week, and there's absolutely nothing that you can do to increase that amount of time. What you can do is make better use of the time that you have, and "Make It Happen!" will show you how.
"We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with.
Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them." Lucius Annaeus Seneca Here's some of what you'll find inside "Make It Happen!"

    How to turn weak intentions--also known as "anemic intentions"--into robust resolutions, with really sharp teeth, that you'll act on.

    Do you have a long to-do list and you're not sure which task to get started with? Use the matrix created by the United States military to identify the most efficient target for an attack to decide which project you should work on first.

    Eight guidelines that will allow you to design your "Ideal Week", and create a schedule that you'll stick to.

    Why scheduling "play" into your week is vital for your productivity.

    The Sydney Opera House was initially slated to be completed in 1963 for $7 million, but it was completed in 1973 for $102 million. We're all guilty of doing something similar, albeit at a much smaller scale . . . things always seem to take longer than we thought they would. Here's how to get your "inner contractor" to finish projects on time, and within budget.

    A technique which involves your kitchen timer which is a life-saver when it comes to procrastination (the simplest things are always the most effective).

    As Denis Whitley once said, success is heavy and carries responsibility with it. Discover how fear of success may be the culprit behind your procrastination problem (and what to do about it).