13/06/2016
SEVEN DAY PROCRASTINATION CHALLENGE
Discover to how to beat the damaging habit of procrastination and get your tasks done on time
Procrastination – which is when you put off tasks that you should be focusing on – can stop even the most promising career in its tracks. It can diminish the quality of your work, lead you to miss deadlines, cause others to avoid working with you, and can even damage your reputation. The good news is there's a lot you can do to overcome this bad habit.
To understand how procrastination impacts your life, you need to be aware of what it looks like, what the emotional repercussions are, and how you got into this pattern of behavior in the first place.
It’s important to emphasize that procrastination isn’t the same as laziness – a lazy person may procrastinate, and a procrastinator may be lazy, but one doesn’t automatically follow to the other.
A procrastinator is more likely to be unmotivated or overwhelmed than lazy.
You may be a procrastinator if you say things like;
• I won’t be able to get it all done, so why bother?
• I’ve missed the deadline already, so what’s the point of even trying? I’ll just take the blow and move on
• I won’t do it well, so I won’t do it at all
• I’m not in the mood right now. I’ll do it tomorrow
• I’ll do it once I’ve got all these little things out of the way
• There are so many things to do that I don’t have a clue where to start
Do any of these sound familiar? Once you recognize that you procrastinate, the next step is to understand why you do it, and when.