Email reply procrastination hell – part 2

Thank you for your coaching on this…… I’m a little ashamed to say that I didn’t reply to the email! It’s more complex than this, though, in that I decided I didn’t want to reply to that specific pitch call.
BUT: I would like to contact her with new pitches. And keep putting it off because I feel awkward about ignoring her previous email…
It got worse when I saw another piece that was commissioned by the publication on a topic I’d have loved to write on…. and had been meaning to pitch and kept putting off…
Can I just send her an email and ignore the last one?!
It was literally 3 months ago now and I can’t believe this has been hanging over me…
It is an example of where procrastination builds up and up and becomes so much bigger than it needs to be.
Ultimately in that specific pitch call, at that specific time (I was on holiday when it came in!) wasn’t for me – and it was me looped into a group email, so it wasn’t even a one-on-one thing. But instead of owning that, I’ve let it stop me contacting her with my own pitches, out of some misplaced shame?!
Do you have any tips on overcoming that? I imagine it will be just sending a damn email to her……. but i’ve built it up so much in my head!!
Thanks so much……

 

Answer:

 

The sky is the limit when it comes to what you can do – how she responds is housed in her own model. You get to stand in your reasons for not responding confidently and have your own back. Notice what’s keeping you from doing that.

If your desired R line is to send another pitch, what does the rest of the model look like?
C: Pitches
T:
F:
S:
A:
R: Send pitch to her via email

If there was a reality in which no matter what you decided to do, there would be no negative repercussions, what would you choose to do? Why?