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Procrastination

Good business coaching can save you time and money.  As you might have learned at college, procrastination is the thief of time.  Our inclination  to put things off until a later time, to avoid doing things that should be done is a more common disease than the flu.

 Yet, how fulfilling our existences really  could be if we conquered this mental malady. How much less stressful our lives would be 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’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.

Whatever the cause, or excuse, procrastination is a mental thing and with the right motivation 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. 

 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  perfect place to start  is with the owner or manager of the business.   It’s a bit of a rude ask to get your team to stop procrastinating if you do it yourself all the time. .

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.

 If you would like more information about business coaching, check out Perth Business Coach.