Beat Procrastination with the help of Coaching

Coaching could be just the thing you need to put an end to procrastination once and for all!

Procrastination is nothing more than wandering around minor issues instead of working with an integrated focus on the bigger goal. In other words, dear reader, when you procrastinate, you're just avoiding doing what needs to be done!

Anyone who thinks they can put an end to procrastination overnight is completely mistaken. There are a number of deficiencies that, if not corrected properly, you will spend the rest of your life stuck in procrastination.

Fortunately, there is a lot that can be done to combat procrastination and turn you into a person committed to your goals. Much of it is related to Coaching techniques.

Why does procrastination occur?

Coaching identifies several reasons for procrastination. One of the most classic is waiting for the perfect and often impossible conditions to happen. Like waiting for the perfect time, the perfect information, the perfect person, in other words, the magic ingredients that will never appear, to complete the task.

There is no such thing as the ‘perfect moment’ that comes out of nowhere. We create it! Accept that and go after your goals without further delay.

Other reasons include fear of failure after so much expectation, lack of maturity, perfectionism and stress. But don't worry, they can all be cured!

How to stop procrastinating?

1. Accept reality

All the evils of procrastination converge in the denial of reality. In other words, we ‘travel’ in our thoughts and other matters and deny our current condition as a person with no real goals to achieve.

Set concrete goals! Coaching shows us that we can do this through small tasks. Among our successful coaching methods, we teach our partners to maintain attention and focus for 21 days in a row, like a real homework assignment.

Every day, you should aim to achieve a goal, but focus on easy things. Nothing huge, after all, if you can't finish the smallest tasks, how can you aim for something bigger? The greatness of the goals will come when you stop procrastinating.

2. Make the right choices and categorise them

Okay, you've accepted that you're a person who only knows how to stall and you want to change that. However, you don't know where to start because you're disorganised.

To correct this, restructure your tasks into separate categories.

The idea of coaching here is to divide up your activities within your daily routine and get you to fulfil them throughout the day. We'll set a time to start and finish each one, so you don't have to put it off until later, let alone the next day.

3. Give yourself rewards

Well done, you've decided that your goal for the day was to do five college exercises, but your state of mind insists on not co-operating. Try incentivising yourself with rewards.

Self-reward is a great motivator, along with the feeling of accomplishment. How many times have you given yourself an undue reward by going out for a walk, surfing the internet, dating, eating in a restaurant or going to the pub to watch a game after procrastinating all day and thinking: ‘how can I be here with so much still to do?’.

The feeling of guilt is inevitable, it's bad and it kills your self-esteem!

But when you fulfil your obligations, you not only take an extra step in the pursuit of your goals, but you also raise your self-esteem by enjoying the well-deserved reward that all committed people deserve after a hard day's work.

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