The Wikipedia defines procrastination in the following way:
“The act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of low-priority, and thus
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putting off important tasks to a later time.” I wonder how often we label something procrastination and beat ourselves up when it’s something totally different. There are many reasons we as human beings put off doing things and these reasons may not have anything to do with procrastination.
What if what we are putting off is because of a belief or judgment we have about ourselves or the task?
What if what we are putting off is not congruent with who we are an not in alignment but rather something we think we need to do that really is not moving us closer to what we want?
What if what we are delaying is simply in the realm of do do . . . we do live in a society that values doing . . .
What if what we really “should be doing” is Being?
Wikipedia also had this interesting piece about procrastination:
“Schraw, Pinard, Wadkins, and Olafson have proposed three criteria for a behavior to be classified as procrastination:
it must be counterproductive, needless, and delaying.”
When you put your story about how you procrastinate through this filter have you met all three of these requirements? If you have I would ask you to look at each and ask yourself the following:
Who thinks this is counterproductive? Is this a judgment?
Who thinks this is needless? Is it really needless?
What am I delaying by this “procrastination” and why?
What would happen if you looked instead at everything you have done and you patted yourself on the back and said good job? How would your life be different if you stopped beating yourself up for what you think you need to do and started aligning you doing with being?
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