Posts Tagged ‘rewards’

Overcoming procrastination is one of my most popular topics when teaching clients about time management.  It appears to be something that everyone struggles with — including me.

When faced with a task we’d rather avoid, we can be very creative in coming up with other things to keep us occupied.  I’ve written previously about my struggle to overcome the lure of on-line Sudoku (see In Praise of Deadlines).  Your particular stalling tactic might be watching TV, surfing Facebook, or obsessively playing a game on your handheld device.  We tell ourselves that we work hard and we’ve earned this particular reward.  “Just one more game”, we promise ourselves, “and I’ll get to those taxes.”  But we don’t.

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