Many people procrastinate, not just perfectionists and it isn’t usually about things we enjoy doing!

Sometimes we procrastinate because we find the task onerous – in which case we have to look at whether we really need to do it or not. If not we can either forget about it or pass it onto somebody else to do. If we do have to do it and it is not a huge task then we have to set a goal around it and then some specific action plans about when , where and how it is going to happen – don’t forget the road to hell is paved with good intentions – so we have to implement those intentions and not just wait until we feel like doing it.

Often though, we procrastinate because a task seems too overwhelming in either complexity or in size…so this is why I have posted a picture of some swiss cheese i.e. a type of cheese that can be broken off into small manageable chunks. You make a list or a flow chart or something similar that will break the large task down into much smaller sub tasks and then you just concentrate on the first task, without thinking about the others, even if you only spend 5 minutes on it you have then started it!