Recognizing Bad Time Management Habits Procrastination

Recognizing Bad Time Management Habits Procrastination

Procrastination. Cramming. Overload! Procrastination is by far the number one time management killer. For example, you need to submit that business plan for a loan evaluation at the bank next week. This is an opportunity that you cannot afford to miss, especially if your business needs start up capital to work.

You have one week to go, you think. Shrug it off. Instead of working on the business plan and proposal, you spend hours playing Minesweeper. You download videos. You listen to music. You do a host of other things, tasks that have no bearing to your end-goal whatsoever.

Six days later, you are on your sixth mug of coffee while desperately drawing up a business plan. You are not just burning the midnight oil. You find that you are in the midst of a conflagration. How did this happen?

But I work best under pressure, you say. That is an outright lie. You could have spent six or seven days polishing up the proposal and getting your presentation right. Instead you show up at the bank obviously lacking sleep and lacking the energy to get the proposal right.

This is a simple scenario. Serial procrastinators allow tasks to pile up to the point where it demotivates them, to the point where everything is done in a hurry. Anyone who has ever had to cram a 25 page term paper in one night knows that stress this habit can bring on.

Are you sure you want to be under that kind of pressure your entire life?