"I like Work. It fascinates me. I can sit on and look at it for hours" - Anonymous saying. We all have gone through this emotion, day in and day out. I myself am used to work out of the wisdom "If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done".
So why do we all procrastinate? While superficial answers may lead you to laziness or lack of time, there is often a better reason for it. (I will tell you later about it) One thing is for sure, procrastination is a bad habit. To surrender a bad habit you need to clearly understand your emotions and then start controlling it. Once you are able to identify that emotion or the cause, it becomes a lot easier to control the urge to procrastinate. According to psychiatrists, Procrastination is a symptom, not an issue. It manifests in your mind and plays hell with you. To really understand it, you need to be in close quarters with your consciousness and your mind. A simple way to find the cause: internal probing. In a nutshell, you keep answering to subsequent WHY questions till you can no longer can answer another WHY question. That last answer is the root cause. In the engineering parlance we refer this technique as 5 Why founded by Sakichi Toyoda and used in Toyota Motors successfully. At first, it is very difficult but keep going and you will surely get to the root of the problem. First, you start with the question "Why are you procrastinating?" Then keep probing deeper and deeper with answers more towards how is your feeling towards procrastination rather than the WHY question. Or better ask the next probing question "why does that matter?", continue till you hit the jackpot. (My jobs done - easier said than done)
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AuthorVasudevan is a Leadership Mentor and an Executive coach. I run an online website geared towards helping creative entrepreneurs and future managers to build their dreams. Archives
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