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Before you read this article, you may want to read values and procrastination, and then reasons for procrastinating. After reading these articles, and doing the accompanying exercise, you will be able to identify: the tasks that are important to you. the reasons why you are procrastinating. Now for the sixty-four thousand dollar question: How do I Stop Procrastinating? As I always tell my clients, you may need to experiment a little before you find the right strategy for you. So, please, experiment. See what works, and what does not work. Strategies 1. Sometimes when you are overwhelmed you feel like you should go faster and do more. You may be a whirlwind of activity and still be procrastinating. But what you really need to do is STOP and BREATHE…

  Before you read this article, I suggest you read my previous post on procrastination and values. In that post, I asked you to consider whether completing a task is important to you or not. If the end result of the task has no value for you, I suggested that, rather than worry about procrastination, you should make the choice to put it aside. In this post, I am delving into the reasons that you may have for putting off tasks, which are important to you, are truly in sync with your values. That is, I am assuming that you do value the outcome, but are still procrastinating. My hope is that once you have identified what is important to you and the reasons that you delay those tasks, which will help you…