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What is Your Procrastination Trigger?

2022-11-29T10:29:11-05:00By |bottleneck, Distractions and Procrastination, Goal Setting and Mind Set, Prioritizing, Productivity|

According to Tim Pychyl, author of Solving the Procrastination Puzzle, everyone procrastinates. The key to increasing your productivity is decreasing the time you procrastinate. Simple, right?  Not usually!  In order to decrease the amount of time you procrastinate, you must know the answers to these questions:  What tasks do you typically put off doing?  What’s the stopping point or trigger on these tasks?  How do you [...]

Overcome Procrastination Using 3D Thinking

2018-09-06T15:56:06-04:00By |Checklists & Systems, Overwhelm|

As I have said many times, my high-achieving clients often struggle with procrastination. I've been expanding my knowledge of this concept lately, and have found so many out-of-the-box ideas to overcome this habit. (Yes, it IS a habit.) Why do some people struggle more than others to start AND complete a task? Enter Neil Fiore, Ph.D, the author of The Now Habit, with the idea of [...]

A List for Everything – Even Procrastination!

2017-03-10T09:39:46-05:00By |Goal Setting and Mind Set, Productivity|

I recently shared Tim Pychyl’s 6 characteristics that make it more likely you will procrastinate on a task. One of the ways to lessen the amount of time you spend procrastinating is to flip those 6 traits from the negative to the positive. This strategy will work for MOST tasks, however sometimes, flipping it just isn’t enough. When this happens, try creating a procrastination [...]

The 6 Triggers of Procrastination

2016-12-12T10:03:20-05:00By |Distractions and Procrastination, Productivity|

A few months ago I had an interesting online discussion about procrastination and prioritizing (procrastination as reactive and prioritizing as proactive).  According to Tim Pychyl, author of Solving the Procrastination Puzzle, everyone procrastinates. Different people procrastinate in different ways, and for different amounts of time. According to Salary.com, 31% of people admitted to consciously wasting an hour each day, and 26% admitted consciously wasting 2 [...]

What is the Cost of Procrastination?

2016-12-07T20:00:04-05:00By |Distractions and Procrastination|

I'm reading The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey and I LOVE this book! In fact, I'll probably be referencing it in a few blog posts over the next few months. One of the experts he quoted was Tim Pychyl, who said, "Everyone procrastinates." If that doesn't make you feel better about procrastinating, what will?! However, we all procrastinate in different ways, some more often [...]

Stop Procrastination – with AWE!

2016-12-07T20:00:20-05:00By |Distractions and Procrastination, Uncategorized|

Confess it - you probably procrastinate every day. Look at what you have written down in your note pad, journal, to-do list, or calendar. How many of those tasks have you started? And how many have you completed? The reasons we procrastinate are numerous.  Maybe fear of success.  Possibly fear of failure.  Could be the task doesn’t align with your values and goals.  Often, [...]

Schedule Your Procrastination

2016-12-07T20:00:20-05:00By |Distractions and Procrastination, Goal Setting and Mind Set, Uncategorized|

"Productive Procrastination" - a very real . . . and very sneaky . . . phenomena where you stay busy all day yet accomplish very little.  Previously, I wrote a post entitled "Don't Confuse Progress With Motion"  where I shared 5 tips on how to overcome Productive Procrastination.  Periodically I'm updating some of these solutions; last time we talked about identifying your #1 task [...]

What Exactly IS Productive Procrastination?

2016-12-07T20:00:47-05:00By |Awesome People, Distractions and Procrastination|

I was super excited and super honored when THE Sales Wizard, Hugh Liddle asked me to guest post on his blog.  You see - he is a fabulous man, with a huge heart, and a ton to give to the sales community.  To be able to share some of my insights on procrastination with his peeps is a pretty big deal for me. So [...]

Fight Procrastination Day

2016-12-07T20:01:27-05:00By |Distractions and Procrastination|

How often do you procrastinate?  Once a month?  Once a week?  Once a day?  Once an hour?   Today, I challenge you to NOT procrastinate at all!!  Usually, I’m a believer in small steps (“cut your procrastination down in half” or “only allow yourself 60 minutes of procrastination today”), but today is Fight Procrastination Day – and I want you to celebrate in style. [...]

Don’t Confuse Progress with Motion – The Procrastination Dilemma

2016-12-07T20:01:33-05:00By |Distractions and Procrastination|

Alfred Montapert - "Don't confuse motion with progress - a rocking horse keeps moving but doesn't make progress." The web definition of procrastination is "the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time."  I define procrastination as doing ANYTHING other than the activity you defined as you #1 activity!   Confusing motion with progress I call "productive procrastination".   [...]

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