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Advantages and Disadvantages of Making the Best of Today
Tomorrow your accepted plan? Quickly reconsider that costly limitation.
How are you doing with procrastination? It can impact your life. Think it’s not logical, or have good intentions but have poor follow through?
It happens everywhere, at home, at work, and in other places. If tomorrow is your accepted mantra, quickly reconsider that plan. Problems vary, so your goal is to eliminate them or reduce them.
Many think that procrastination is about a lack of time management or will power. Experts often say it may be more about how our emotions and our brains deal with what is going on in our lives.
It is all about how we cope. If you view a task as not pleasant, you may decide to go instead for something that gives your mood a boost. That allows you to avoid doing the job at hand. You can create a vicious cycle by procrastinating then feeling bad or shame or guilty. Check if any of these things are what you are feeling or doing.
If you find yourself procrastinating, forgive yourself and see if that changes your pattern or stops it entirely. Do you need a boost of patience or compassion for yourself.
Do what you can easily do. Do you consider, or have you judged yourself for not having good time management skills? Will power issues? Avoidance issues? Do you feel you are being forced to do something you do not want to do?
Using your procrastination to cope? It is worth looking at to see if you can discover the underlying cause. Is it related to a lack of discipline or not being able to regulate yourself? It can be an emotionally driven response.
If you have been putting off planning for retirement, would a digitally aged picture of yourself allow you to be more likely to set up a retirement account? If looking at the present or future, do you think you are going to be able to get around to doing your retirement fund someday, and you have plenty of time. Is that why you are procrastinating about doing it now?
Look at the other areas you might have been procrastinating and see if you need more information or more help doing the task now rather than later.
Making friends with your future may assist you in choosing the projects you will do now and those you will schedule for later.
It may be that you are procrastinating because you need more information about the task you keep putting off. Then get the help you need so you can move forward.
If you need a motivational boost to begin a task, ask yourself where in the past did I give myself or get a motivational boost. See if that will apply to your current project.
Just do it or just get started are not options to use for yourself or for others. Whether you feel like it or not, the task at hand may need to be done by you. How could you do the job in a faster, more natural way? Use your creative problem-solving skills to help you.
To increase your well being, progress on your tasks or goals is a pivotal piece to encourage yourself to continue to move forward. Monitor distractions and adjust as needed. Try out the if-then method. If ___ happens, then I will ____. So if ____ calls, then I will not answer the phone.
When you tell yourself it doesn’t matter if you get the project finished, you might want to determine if that is true or not. If true, you might decide to reschedule the project, and if it will make a difference, or find the skills or help you need to get the project finished on time.
Procrastination can be behavioral, emotional, or cognitive. Find what works for your life and send procrastination into a permanent time out.
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