APRIL NIBJ: SANDPOINT CHAMBER: Spring cleaning: Kick the procrastination habit
Mickey Quinn
You know those little tasks that you don't particularly like to do, those little things that you put off for later? All of us have one. Some of us have many. One of mine used to be taking action on the emails in my Inox. I don't know why I procrastinated on doing the simple task of responding, filing, and/or deleting, but I got into the habit of scanning my emails, and then closing them to deal with them later. Sometimes that would be days later. That small task would add up to be a large Inbox in a short amount of time. My habitual pattern was to put it off until I just couldn't avoid it anymore. Then finally, I spent a hefty amount of time dealing with a huge number of emails that if I had only done those little tasks when I should have done them, it would have been a whole lot easier and a whole lot faster.
There are many tasks in life and at work we face that we don't particularly like to do. And because those seemingly insignificant little tasks are relatively easy to do, we tell ourselves, “Oh, it's not a big deal. I will get to that eventually.” Unfortunately, as easy as those tasks are to do, they are just as easy not to do. Hard work is often the accumulation of easy things you didn't do when you should have done them. In business and at work, procrastination pops-up in all kinds of areas like making a phone call to potential client, taking action to work on big projects, learning new software, or having difficult conversations with an employee, vendor, or a client.
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