Overcoming Your Procrastination
SUMMARY
Are you constantly chasing your tail and shifting things from one day to the next because you didn't get them done, or are you on top of your priorities and making the progress that you want?
Hi, this is Grant Herbert, Emotional Intelligence Speaker and Trainer of the Year and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to continue our conversation around making sure that in 2021, you get the result that you want by helping you to overcome your procrastination.
Procrastination is one of those funny things where we can joke about it and say, "Look, I was going to procrastinate once, but I never got around to it." However, it's not really a laughing matter. Procrastination is the thief of time. It's the thief of results. It's what holds you back from getting forward and getting the things that you're going after.
Read or watch this vlog to learn why we procrastinate and how we can overcome procrastination.
FULL TRANSCRIPT
Are you constantly chasing your tail and shifting things from one day to the next because you didn't get them done, or are you on top of your priorities and making the progress that you want?
Hi, this is Grant Herbert, Emotional Intelligence Speaker and Trainer of the Year and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to continue our conversation around making sure that in 2021, you get the result that you want by helping you to overcome your procrastination.
Procrastination is one of those funny things where we can joke about it and say, "Look, I was going to procrastinate once, but I never got around to it." However, it's not really a laughing matter. Procrastination is the thief of time. It's the thief of results. It's what holds you back from getting forward and getting the things that you're going after. So instead of just giving you some tips on how to be more productive, I want to step back and I want to take a look at the reason why we procrastinate.
One of the main reasons why people procrastinate is that they don't have confidence in themselves to actually be able to achieve the result. Another reason is that they don't even feel like they deserve the result — and they know in their subconscious that if they were to get those things done, it would actually shift the needle, and they would have to then step outside that belief zone. So therefore, self-sabotage strategies are employed to make sure that that certainly doesn't happen.
The first thing that I encourage you to do is to write down a list of the things that you procrastinate over — the things that are a pattern. You continually avoid doing those things. They're things that you've shifted from yesterday's list to today's list over and over again. Once you've done that, go through each of those individually. I want you to ask yourself those two questions: For what purpose and at what cost? Get to the root cause of why you are procrastinating.
When we do this, we're going to get some data around things that are probably holding us back in many areas of our lives. If it's the old confidence-competence loop, if it's the self-doubt, if it's self-worth issues — it's all about going back and building your personal power.
Now that we've done that, I want to give you a little skill that you can employ so that you do actually overcome these key procrastinators and get them done. Make sure that the things that you don't want to do, you get them done first. And then use things you enjoy as a reward for getting those things that you normally procrastinate on done.
So, procrastination is not about skill. Procrastination is about purpose. It's about reason. It's about getting clear on why it is that those things are the things that you always put off. Make sure that you invest in yourself without procrastinating and set some time aside right now, when you finish listening to this, to write those things down.
Procrastination is the thief of your results. It's time for us to move forward. I'll see you then.
