Being On Purpose
If you’re like most of us, you’ve experienced moments (or vast spans) of your life when you believe you struggled with time management. Maybe it was during your university years or when you wanted to write that novel.
Let’s dispel the myth of time, all of it.
You aren’t a procrastinator.
Procrastination isn’t a “thing.”
Procrastination is nothing more than a story you’ve made up (or believed someone else’s story) about yourself to explain your reason for not doing something you just don’t want to do.
If something keeps getting pushed to tomorrow’s To-Do List, that’s simply an opportunity for you to slow down and gather more information.
Ask yourself:
Why am I not completing this task, project or assignment?
Answer yourself honestly.
You will uncover the reason behind your procrastination story and that reason may look like this:
it’s not fun
it’s tedious
it’s too big
it’s not my responsibility
it’s hard
it’s complicated
Or any number of reasons I’ve left off this incomplete list.
Next ask:
How can I love this project?
How can I have fun with it?
How can I change my story about this task?
When we slow ourselves down long enough to truly look at what’s not being done we see we are not the problem. Our relationship with our story about ourselves is the problem.
Rewrite your story so that the protagonist is the conquerer of tasks and not the other way around.
Happy endings are a choice.
But only every time.
We all like to hear about success and to see others succeed. But what about ourselves? What does it actually take to succeed? Is there a magic bullet? Super coach Steve Chandler said, “Success comes from focus. Winners focus.”
And Richard St. John corroborates that statement in this brief TED Talk on the power of focus.