I decided to add a new category because there have been a number of people who have in recent months been asking me about career development advice. If you have questions regarding a specific type of career or career development advice, just drop a comment here.
It’s quite intriguing to pick up on this topic after an absence of a couple of weeks. Someone dropped me a message and said that the content that I had mentioned in a previous procrastination post had too much common sense and the reader demanded that I put up information that doesn’t contain such motherhood statements.
I took a look at this video, and understood how someone who strives for excellence needs an achievement mindset. Oscar Pistorius fought an uphill battle to make his way to the Beijing Olympics and even without legs, he shattered paralympic records. Achieving in spite of apparent barriers – are we able to do this?
After all, some of our barriers are mere excuses: no time, no energy, no support, no confidence…
If you have already overcome these barriers, that’s awesome. If you haven’t, when will it end? When will you stop listening to such voices and keep moving forward?
I received a question which I felt deserved a decent post.
Guy Brown asked:
“Why do certain people have the ability to engage and entice people when they talk, regardless of the topic of conversation?”
In my 16 years of training and speaking, I’ve found that there are an extremely large number of people who are constantly fascinated by the charisma of leaders, people who have that “X” factor, and most of these people are under the spotlight very frequently.
So I surfed the net and I found some people who are dishing out weird and odd ideas for beating procrastination. For example, someone suggested that if you hypnotize yourself, you will cause irreparable damage and prevent you from really taking control of yourself and your habits.
Hm.
Procrastination is habit, and I know that there are times we need to build a habit to save time. However, it’s also important for you to recognize the fact that if you were to ‘hypnotize’ yourself, you might as well do it right.
photo credit: ~ Maryam ~
It took me about a year to write this post (just kidding).
It’s a common disease. But it’s not in any medical journal ever. I believe, however, that chronic procrastination is a disease, and it is something that everyone experiences at some time or another.
So why do we procrastinate?
There are so many reasons behind procrastination. Who knows, it might be due to some traumatic experience you had as a child. A fear or a sense of self-doubt. Maybe the desire for a sense of freedom? A desire to just laze around? Maybe, ironically, a supreme level of (over)confidence?
