Good business coaching can save you time and money. As we all learned in school, procrastination is the thief of time. Our inclination to put jobs off until some time in the future , to avoid doing things that should 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 stress would we carry if we did not allow ourselves to be mentally burdened with unfinished tasks hanging over us.
People cite a number of causes for procrastinating from negative self talk, “ I can never seem to get this done 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.
Whatever the cause, or excuse, 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, the coffee pot, the water fountain, the smoking – they all arrest inertia. And yet, just creating movement is quite often all that is needed to change the inertia. Motion encourages more motion.
Procrastination isn’t just something that afflicts employees, it also affects business owners – 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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