In my recent mid-year review, I noticed I have an entire list of tasks I've been procrastinating and moving from month to month. Some of them I've been putting off for years! Instead of just moving them forward again, I decided to dig a little deeper and figure out why I've been procrastinating them.
I wrote up a new list, and next to each task I wrote why I've been putting it off. This was eye-opening and forced myself to be honest. Some tasks carry a lot of emotional weight that I don't want to confront. Some tasks require technological skills or information that I don't have. Some of these cost money I don't really want to spend, or are multi-step time consuming projects I never seem to find the time for. The longest-procrastinated tasks combine several of these aspects. (Example: to transfer photos from a 20 year old external hard drive (where they were saved from a Windows desktop) to my iCloud via my macbook, which filled up my macbook's hard drive as it sees them as files not Photos, etc etc.)
Once I had figured out why I'd procrastinated each task, I started to write some solutions. Who to ask for more information, how to psyche myself up to actually do the things, when I can schedule time to do some of these things.
This exercise was very enlightening, and if nothing else now I know why I've been putting off these particular actions!
Do you tend to procrastinate intimidating tasks? What helps you confront them?
And as always on Fridays feel free to ask and/ or discuss anything ring organiser related!
Have a great weekend everyone!
