The Reasons We Procrastinate and How to Stop
For many of us over the past few weeks, we’ve suddenly had a lot more of something there never usually seems to be enough of: time.
Usually time feels like a scarce resource that we have to carve up between work, friends and family. Now all of a sudden we’ve been given some of this back in a circumstance most of us have never experienced before. While there’s an active movement on social channels for us not to feel like we need to use that time in a productive way, if you’re ambitious the current lack of freedom offers an opportunity.
Whether it’s a website you’ve been meaning to create, a book you wanted to write, improving on the piano, or reorganising your wardrobe, lack of time is no longer a reason not to actually deliver on something.
However, while it’s easy to see time as the greatest challenge when it comes to achievement, accomplishing isn’t just about finding time, but using it in an effective and efficient way. And while we may now have been gifted some time, we may still be finding ourselves in a state of perpetual procrastination.
One of the great enemies of achievement, the tendency to procrastinate is a very genuine challenge and not something to be embarrassed about or seen as a personal weakness. Procrastination comes when you have this frustrating feeling that while you…
