Good business coaching can save you time and money. As you might have learned at college, procrastination is the thief of time. This tendency to put jobs off until some time in the future , to avoid doing jobs that really ought to be done is a more common disease than the flu.
And yet, how productive and rewarding our lives could be if we conquered this mental malady. How much less stressful our lives would be if we did not allow ourselves to be emotionally and mentally weighed down with unfinished tasks hanging over us.
People cite a number of causes for procrastinating from negative self talk, “I can’t do this right ,” to being unclear about the task or not seeing the relevance of the task, to finding the task boring – especially true with repetitive tasks, to poor time management.
Regsardless of the excuse or reason, procrastination is rooted in our mind, in the way we think, and with the right mind training we can learn to rise to the occasion “mentally,” and get it done. Boring and repetitive tasks are often the most difficult to find motivation for.
In the corporate world, procrastination is one of the biggest profit drains. With procrastinators, it can be the corridor meeting, surfing the net, or the coffee pot - they all work against inertia . And yet, just creating movement is quite often all that is needed to change the inertia. Motion encourages more motion.
It’s not just employees who suffer from procrastiantion. Business owners can be among the worst of them – especially when things aren’t going well. To fix procrastination in the workplace, the best place to begin is with the owner or manager of the business. You can’t expect your team to show a quality that you won’t or can’t demonstrate yourself.
If you find that you repeatedly have difficulty motivating yourself to start and complete tasks on a personal level, or if you own a business and find that your team are always struggling to meet deadlines , you may be well served to secure the services of a business mentor who is adept at teaching people to overcome procrastination. Business owners and employees both enjoy the workplace much more when they have learned to self start and overcome procrastination.
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