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They were looking at a task and imagining how unpleasant it might be. They were looking into the future and predicting how much they would not enjoy it. Who wants to go and do things they won’t enjoy? If I asked you to choose between cleaning the cooker or sitting down in a comfy sofa which would it be?
So what was going on?
One dictionary definition of procrastination is to ‘postpone action’. This seems to make sense doesn’t it? We all know procrastination is about putting things off and avoiding the things we don’t want to do. Procrastination is the behaviour we employ just after we realise we don’t want to do something and some people are masters in the art of creative avoidance. Serial procrastinators manage to come up with amazingly creative and varied ways of avoiding things whilst others have the sofa and television strategy down pat.
So this is the first part of what makes us procrastinate, we simply want to avoid unpleasant feelings. But there’s more. Then we have to pay attention to how big the feelings are that we want to avoid. If we’re thinking about a tax return we can start to imagine all sorts of consequences of filling it in.
So we know what it is but do we really know why we do it? As you may see from the title of this article I have a very different view on why we procrastinate and you only have to dig a little deeper to understand why we do it. As I have said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the normal way of thinking about procrastination is that it helps us avoid what we don’t want to do but we need to look a little further into how we motivate ourselves to get the real reason. Let me give you an example.
Firstly it’s the actual task of getting all the paperwork together and then it’s the process of organising it all, doing the sums and making sure we do it in the correct way. Doing it correctly is a big thing for most people because if we get it wrong we get into trouble with the very scary tax man. I had one student say recently that he had put his off to the last moment so the tax man would have less time to inv
Will you read this now or put it off until later?
Whether I’m in a training or coaching role one of the most common wishes people tell me they have is to stop procrastinating. They tell me how much time they waste, how many things they could accomplish and how they could feel better about themselves if they could just stop procrastinating and get on with things. I have had so many clients who either say this or demonstrate it that I became interested in what was going on.
A few months ago I was conducting a training. It was a networking skills training to some management consultants. The subject of procrastination came up because they realised they were putting off meeting people and building their network. I asked this question: “Who completed their self assessment tax return within a couple of weeks of receiving it?” The vast majority of people in the room receive a tax return from the government every year but only one person put his hand up. Everyone else turned to stare and some even laughed because they couldn’t believe anyone would do such a thing. The man in question looked a little sheepish at admitting such a strange behaviour. Then I asked, “Who completed it before the September deadline?” About a third of the group put up their hands. Then I asked, “Who did it between then and the end of the year?” Again a few more hands, then finally I asked, “Who did it in January and who did it in the last week? And who ended up doing it on the last day and had to drive to their tax office to post it through the door because they had missed the post?” Up went the rest of the hands.
So, although everyone had the same time to do the same job, most put it off and several had to go right to the deadline before they would do it. And these are meant to be experts in advising companies how to be more efficient and successful,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]! Just to let you know,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the guy who returned his assessment within a week had a massive smile on his face at this point.