Is Procrastination Impacting Your Personal Growth and Development?

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Procrastination is the biggest killer of one’s personal growth and development than any other single facet of one’s time. We all only have 24 hours in a day yet , most everyone puts off tasks, to-do lists due to laziness and/or insufficient time management and planning.

Do you ever wonder sometimes why other people are able to keep focused in their work and complete their respective work goals on time? Why is that? What enables one person to complete their tasks and objectives when others suffer from a lack of self improvement . If you identify with one of the above mentioned individuals, there is no secret mystery that enables one person to be able to focus and complete their task and goal why others struggle to stop procrastination. Why is getting things done, and completed tasks so difficult for many? The answer is your mindset.

People as you may or may not know are creatures of habit-people for the most part hate and detest change. Think about for a moment. How does your daily routine go? If you’re like most people you get out of bed at a certain time of the morning to either exercise or shower.

Then you dress yourself accordingly, eat breakfast or something, then head off to work to start your day. In the evening you head back home, shower eat, do the family thing then off to bed you go just to repeat all over the next day.

Procrastination-is no different. Just like riding a bike when you were a child you had to learn with training wheels before you got the hang of it-correct? Well procrastination is no different-you have to teach yourself and learn a new skill which is really a cognitive learning skill more than anything else.

Steps You Can Implement NOW to Stop Procrastination in Your Life...

1) How to stop Procrastination : Make a To-Do List- Write down on paper all the things/tasks that you must do vs what you want to do. You’ve got to prioritize your daily schedule so you are able to get a better handle of what it is you have to focus on in completing

2) Develop realistic time-lines for completing your daily/weekly tasks

3) Go over your To-Do List every week-Examine your accomplishments and what you yet need to improve upon.


4) Never Put off doing tomorrow what you can easily accomplish Today-This is an age old saying that really focuses on proper time management in your self development. However this nugget of wisdom is your personal “gold mind” if you learn the virtues from it and start applying it in your own personal life

5) Self motivation requires discipline: Limit your personal distractions-TV, idleness and too busy social agenda need to be put in proper perspective.

If you have plans on starting a new career, or business for example but are couching on the sofa for up to 2-3 hours every night after work, you’ll never get to where you want to go! Make a list of all these “outside” distractions to determine how many you can eliminate from your daily schedule and keep to your schedule.

6) Share your procrastination concerns with a trusted friend, spouse etc. An outside friend or spouse can be very helpful in motivating and helping you be accountable to yourself.

7) You are your Worst Enemy and Best Ally at the same time. Every day when you wake up you really have two choices to think about and make: Will you take the choice of “least resistance” and “status quo”, OR will you make the choice to improve and challenge yourself to be the best productive you can?

Quoting Robert Frost’s The Road Less Taken:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference…

I leave you with this thought…which road are you taking today in your personal development journey?

Remember: ”The only Unfulfilled Goals in Your Life are the Ones you Never Attempt”

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