Q1: How would you like to feel when your work is done today? Got it? Q2: What actions could you take now to maximise the likelihood of feeling like that? The answer to Q2 will probably include stuff you don’t feel like doing now. You have two choices: face up to what you need to do & do it Full Article
For many people, procrastination is perceived as being the same as laziness. If you’re not getting things done, if you’re not meeting your commitments, people are quick to generate all manner of unpleasant labels: sloppy, unreliable, useless, lazy. But is this fair? Is it even true? For me, laziness suggests an unwillingness to do Full Article
What is it that causes us to delay action? What is it that causes us to procrastinate? Steven Pressfield calls it Resistance. His wonderful book, ‘The War of Art’, explores this concept better than any other book I have found on the topic. It’s a book I use in the Smarter Egg Overcoming Procrastination programmes. This quote Full Article
One common misconception about procrastination is that we only tend to put off the things we hate to do. There are so many examples of tasks we would love to avoid: housework, going to the dentist, having a ‘difficult’ conversation etc. It’s easy to understand why we might choose to delay acting on those. Would it Full Article
