The four reasons for all procrastination
Whether you are talking about an individual or an organization and no matter what your goal is, potential is only reached by intelligent planning and total commitment.
All big goals require planning and constant tweaking of the plan.
No matter what big goal I have set for myself, I do my best to keep in mind a story I heard many years ago about a man that most westerners have never even heard of. I've studied his teachings in recent years, but here is the very first story I ever heard about him.
A financial reporter was interviewing the 80-year-old founder of Matsushita Electric Company, Konosuke Matsushita.
At the time of his death in 1989 at the age of 94, his personal fortune was over $3 billion and his company had revenues of over $42 billion. No doubt, you have heard of a couple of his company's brands - Panasonic, Technics. Thought so. The Japanese press called him the "God of Management." He pioneered the concept of lifetime employment and throughout his life, gave away hundreds of milllleeons of dollars to charitable causes.
During the interview, the reporter asked Matsushita how far in the future he planned his business ventures. He told the reporter that they plan 200 years into the future. He said they did their best to imagine what the world may look like then and what the needs of humans would be and they planned real strategies based on those projections. His strategy wasn't to react to competition; it was to be the leader.
Now obviously, without a crystal ball, no one could clearly know what the world would be like in 200 years, but if you put enough thought into it, and you use it as a compass to guide an organization, you stand a much greater chance of success than if you only plan for the next quarter or for a year or two.
And I'll tell you, when an organization grows as fast as we are, the only thing you can count on is change. So planning is essential. I regularly try to imagine what people will need in 200 years.
Some process improvements take just single conversations where
others can take many months to notice the improvement.
It's the same in every area of life, isn't it?
Health, career, financial, social, family, education... you name it, planning way ahead is critical.
Some improvements are easy, others take more effort.
That is why people and organizations put tasks off.
If it doesn't give instant pleasure, the vast majority of people will put it off... and suffer the consequences.
It's just human nature.
Only Four Reasons For All Procrastination
1- Doing the task makes them feel like a victim
2- They feel overwhelmed by their responsibilities
3- Perfectionism and/or fear of failure
4- Desire to do what is "fun" instead of what is important
Imagine now if you were a person who never put off tasks until it was too late.
Imagine now that you actually got everything done way before it needed to be done.
Imagine now that you did all this and actually enjoyed it.
If this is hard to imagine, you aren't alone.
That is what our behavior modification program End Procrastination Now was created for, to help you become this new 'Do It Now' person and to help you have a blast doing it.
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