I used to carry so much shame, blame, and guilt around procrastination.
Now I see it differently. Once you realize that you have more thoughts and ideas in a day than most people do in months, you can adjust and take advice from someone who has been there. This is a good example of unconventional thinking.
This shift changed my life and my leadership.
What has your relationship with procrastination been like?
Transcription:
There’s a little thing I don’t talk a lot about from my past, but I think it’s really important to point out. So years ago a lot of people taught me that not completing everything that you set out to complete in a day, and then it rolls into the next day, is procrastination. And not doing something for a while, like a couple weeks, that also is procrastination. And those people that taught me that, taught me also to feel really bad about that, so a pile of shame, blame, and guilt. And I spent a lot of years wasting time, energy, thoughts, all sorts of things on the fact that I wasn’t accomplishing everything I was setting out to do all the time. Well, I’ll give you a little hint, once I realized, and this is how I see it now, I think of more things in one day to tackle and handle than a lot of people do in months of their life. That’s how my brain works. I understand and accept I am not gonna get it all done. Learning how to shift that and how to take away the stigma of procrastination
and starting to really understand that I know what, prioritize wise, is the most important thing that needs to be accomplished, and trusting that that is one of the most important things I’ve Learned. So often I’m talking with leaders about that and they will just they will bring out so much shame, blame, and guilt about procrastination, and I understand. I so understand. I have been there. I have totally laid that on, but you know what I’m just no. They’re- I’ve come to really understand they are lights on a dashboard. Those are indicators I’m not doing this for a reason I need to explore. That is it one too many? Am I taking on too much that’s unrealistic? Is it being delayed because I don’t feel like it’s quite the right time to tackle that I want to think about that a little more? It’s time to do a little more research and get a little more in depth on it. That’s all that means. It doesn’t mean anything that requires beating myself up.
So, if you need to map that out and work on that, I understand and I know how to work with that.
I’m JoyGenea, Unconventional leadership coach and international neurodiversity coach, love to help you out on figuring out your style of procrastination, and what it’s trying to tell you. Bye now.