Procrastinate Better

What does “procrastinating better” look like? Hint: Sometimes it looks like laziness, then you take action and turn it around. “I can’t do this,”Louisa complained. “It’s too hard.” Any task that seems too hard, Louisa doesn’t do. Push her and she’ll just yell at you, “get off my back.” Hence, all kinds of tasks, from cleaning out a closet to revising her resume remain undone. Now let’s look at Ann. “I can’t do this,” Ann sighed. “It’s too hard; it will take  forever. I’m so busy, but I’ve got to figure out when I can do it.” Push her and she’ll agree with you. “Yup; it’s going to take up so much of my time, so I better get started soon.” Ann is in graduate school, hoping to get her Master’s in Education at the same time that she is raising 3 kids, with minimal help from her husband and other family members What’s the difference between Louisa’s procrastination and Ann’s?  Everything! Louisa’s is set in stone; Ann’s is for the moment.  Louisa gives up immediately. Ann complains about how hard it is, then tries to figure out how to tackle the task. Louisa ends her sentence with “it’s too hard.” Ann begins with “it’s too hard” then ends her sentence with a forward-going thought: “I’ve got to figure out when I can do it.”    Louisa resents other people’s reminders. Ann takes other people’s reminders as motivation to get going. In the many years I’ve been a p...
Source: World of Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Habits Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Anxious Thoughts cultivating optimism Laziness overwhelm procrastinate Source Type: blogs