Wednesday 7 November 2018

Procrastination and How To Deal With It

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Let me start this first post of “organisation month” by welcoming you to the Under Blue Skies blog (if you are not already a follower please click the “follow” button).  I felt that since we are talking about organisation this month in both the blog posts and the Wish For Today posts I had better speak a little about one of the biggest problems that affects us all.

It can be very sneaky and sometimes it does not really feel that we are doing anything bad although we often put things off until the very last minute or even second and sometimes we just end up just not doing the thing we should be doing and start to feel bad about it.

So let us face facts – you are never going to feel good about doing some things despite what you say – WE ALL procrastinate at some time in our lives!

Why?

Some of us will procrastinate on doing something because it takes us out of our comfort zone.  We may have a tool box full of strategies but we still delay the action as much as we possibly can. However once we complete the task we realise that it wasn’t really as bad as we believed it was going to be.

We have a tendency to blame social media but in reality procrastination has been around for more years than the internet and it is stated in by Oxford Dictionaries that the word procrastinate appeared in the late 16th century.

FEAR is the key to a lot of procrastination!

Fear can be a major factor in the cause of procrastination

Fear of Attachment
Fear of Becoming Separated
Fear of Success
Fear of Failure
Fear of Being Controlled
Fear of Being Free

Procrastination often affects health and relationships as well as time management BUT to procrastinate is not a symbol of failure.  Many highly successful people can be prone to procrastination.  However if it does affect your health or your relationships then maybe you should rethink your definitions of success. 

If you are suffering from severe procrastination related to anxiety then it is important to ask for help from friends and family and then if necessary take medical and/or professional advice.

You can do some self help providing that the affliction is not too deep or complicated. You could do some “soul searching” even though it might be uncomfortable.  Ways to do this include

Meditation
Journaling
Creating Vision Boards

Recognise that procrastination is a habit even though you may have forgotten what actually created the habit but you can take action against it.

When you realise that you are making excuses not to do something or that you are wasting time in order to avoid getting things done. 

Simply follow the instruction below and then start doing the thing you have been putting off……..

Starting from 5 and count backwards to zero and once you reach zero start to take action on the thing you have been procrastinating about.

IT CAN REALLY BE THAT SIMPLE!



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