Untangling Stressful Habits – Procrastination
If you have been in my world for a while, you will know that I am passionate about habits and untangling unhelpful habits to live a fulfilling and whole-hearted life as a well-being. So I am writing a series to shed some light on some stressful habits that have come back in to my awareness recently.
Before I start sharing about stressful habits, let’s have a look at what stressful habits are.
What Are Stressful Habits?
Basically – habits can be useful or not so useful, helpful or not so helpful, stress inducing or not. Sometimes we are conscious of our habit/s (i.e. often chosen and intentional) or the habit/s can sit within our blind spots or the unknown.
When I refer to stressful habits, I am referring to habits that are impacting our overall life, business or well-being. They could be adding extra stress, suffering or draining life force energy in our lives. The stressful habits could be showing up in one or a variety of areas within our lives (i.e. physical, emotional, mental, financial, environmental or social).
In order to start to untangle from stressful habits, we need to develop self-awareness, so we can be more responsible and take ownership of our own life. Today I wanted to introduce procrastination.
Stressful Habit: Procrastination
If you have been a procrastinator for a while, you may already be familiar with the following definitions of procrastination –
- “the action of delaying or postponing something” ~ Google
- “the act of habit of procrastinating, or putting off or delaying, especially something requiring immediate attention” ~ Dictionary.com
- “the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time” ~ The Free Dictionary
- “to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done” ~ Merriam-Webster
- “the action of delaying or postponing something” ~ Oxford Dictionaries
In the above definitions of procrastination, you probably noticed the words –
- act or action, and
- putting off, deferring or delaying.
Is there anything you would add to these definitions of procrastination? Feel free to share below
Where Does Procrastination Show Up?
Procrastination can show up in many places within our lives. For example from doing projects in our work/study to starting a new movement routine or taking action to start a business. When procrastination shows up, it often spills over in to the rest of our life, so it is important to take the times to recognise it. Once we recognise it, we can then discover ways to help befriend and then untangle from procrastination.
Over to You…
Now you have this awareness, what is your next step? Feel free to share any insights on procrastination or maybe a reflection below.
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