Procrastination Help – Achieve Your Goals

I guess it can happen to all of us at some point in our lives. We can all procrastinate over tasks we know we should do, goals we ought to accomplish and dreams we want to realise. Yet sometimes or maybe even regularly you find yourself getting no further this year than you were at last year.

If you have experienced that nagging feeling that nothing seems to change and no matter how much you convince yourself you find your progress never gets going you may be suffering from procrastination.

Procrastination at Work

Do you find yourself getting in late to work because your motivation is missing. Maybe you waste time at work doing non-essential tasks and avoid getting going with your priority tasks. Unfortunately the more your delay starting that new project or priority task, the more pressure you can feel under and the more likely you are to procrastinate and avoid it. Some people even leave their jobs to avoid having to start or complete a project that they have procrastinated over.

You may even hate your job but the security of it keeps you trapped. The fear what a new job might involve may stop you getting a role that suits you better. All the time you wait, your self esteem is being eroded and your ability to procrastinate increases.

Procrastination at Home

Are the jobs piling up around you? Does your home need decorating, or some door wants fixing or that leaky pipe needs to be solved? Sometimes even calling in a tradesman to fix a domestic problem can lead to procrastination and instead of it being a simple job, no fixing it in time makes it a more expensive repair. You may have outstanding bills that you have not settled or other legal or challenging matters that need you attention but you have yet to tackle.

Your home should be a place where you can unwind and relax, yet you may find that your home is no longer that safe and secure haven. The unstarted or unfinished jobs around your home just add to a sense of drift as the years go by and nothing changes.

Procrastination in Your Personal Life

Do you stay in your relationship because it provides safety or you don’t want to be alone? Has your relationship lost its spark and you and your partner have settled into a safe and yet boring rut? This can happen in any relationship and it doesn’t mean that you have to end it. The best relationship for you may be the one that you are in right now. Unless you are present in the relationship and appreciate it, you may feel unhappy, lost or just trapped. Procrastination can rear its head here too.

Procrastination can affect any and sometimes many areas of our lives. Yet you don’t have to keep putting up with a life of malaise. If you envy others success, it means you recognise things can different and you can change too. Procrastination is often just a state of mind that anyone can fall victim too.

Maybe you have tried and (seemingly) failed to change before. Maybe you have convinced yourself that whatever you do, nothing will change for you. There is an awful expression that is used at times by people that keeps them trapped in an unhappy existence. Have you heard the saying “I should accept my lot”?  If you have used it yourself, stop it now. It doesn’t help you in the slightest.

Ending Procrastination

So how do you overcome procrastination?  Initially, one step at a time. Don’t put pressure on yourself by aiming for too many goals. This approach can overwhelm you. Keep it simple to start with and aim for tasks, goals, achievements that are easy for you. Getting back some sense of success, no matter how small will encourage you.

See yourself differently and stop using negative labels. If you view yourself succeeding and doing those tasks and jobs you are much more likely to succeed (research has proven this). If you call yourself lazy, useless or other negative names, it will undermine your ability to change.

So change your imagined view of yourself and change your labels.

As a London Hypnotherapist one of the most popular issues I help people with is procrastination. Whether you are employed and are an executive, CEO or clerk, a sports person heading for the Olympics or want to improve your game, maybe you are self-employed or want to start your own business. I have helped people in all these areas and many others.

On the home front I have helped people to find new life in their existing relationship as well as getting to grips with domestic tasks.

Sometimes an individual has had a past experience that has led to a loss of motivation and procrastination and in hypnotherapy it can be effective to revisit an event and change how you perceive it today.

Procrastination is not something you were born with, it is something that you have learnt and that has become or can become a habit. This is good news because as human beings we are very adaptable and change habits all the time. Hypnotherapy can support your decision and rather than feeling a victim of it, take control of your life and make a difference to your procrastination.

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Author’s Details

Steven Harold BA(Hons) DCH DHP
Clinical Hypnotherapist – London and Essex

Website: www.hypno-therapist.com

Email: steve@hypno-therapist.com
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Hypnotherapy, Uncertainty and Anxiety

 You may already know that hypnotherapy is effective for issues such as Smoking and Weight loss, but what about the more thorny issues of everyday living and existence? Can hypnotherapy help with issues such as finding meaning in life and living in an uncertain world? In the following article, the focus is on mental toughness and uncertainty. Even though we may crave predictability and security, we all have to live with doubt and the resulting anxiety. In life, anxiety is inevitable; it will either motivate us or overwhelm us. In order to live and succeed in an uncertain world we need what I call mental toughness.

Mental Toughness Versus Uncertainty 

 In order to retain our mental toughness and confidence, we need to be realistic and accept the contingencies of life and existence. This is not always easy as life is uncertain and the future unwritten. We are evolutionally hardwired to be anxious and to worry about the unknown. So it’s unsurprising that we have tried everything from interpreting dreams and reading the stars, to consulting clairvoyants, in order to assuage our anxiety about the future.

Certainty about the future (and the past) gives us a sense of meaning and purpose in the world and the universe – life makes sense. But what if there really is no certainty, no plan and no reward? What if life is just random, meaningless and groundless? What if the universe really doesn’t care? Then, perhaps we need existential mental toughness to get a grip and make the most of a random existence.

Thrown into the World

We do not choose to be born, nor do we choose when and where we are born. We are thrown into the world. At some stage in our development we realise that we exist as individuals and can distinguish ourselves from others. Who and what we become is our responsibility; it is based on the choices we make. Even if life’s conditions constrain us, we still have the freedom, choice and responsibility to decide what we will do and who we will become in each moment. We are our choices. We are our actions. No excuses.

Anxiety and Risk

Given the uncertainty and randomness of life, it is inevitable that we will suffer from some anxiety. In order to contain our anxiety and maintain our false sense of security, we may live restricted lives by limiting our choices and actions. Through risk avoidance and procrastination, our world becomes smaller. A safe life – can be a dangerous life.

The good news is that anxiety can be a catalyst for change and push us towards new experiences that enrich our lives with meaning. Using hypnotherapy we can explore what the anxiety is really telling us, what choices we have and what action we can confidently take. Change starts with anxiety.

So, how can we decide if we are living our lives to their fullest potential? Consider if you had to live your life exactly the same, over and over again for all eternity. As Nietzsche once asked, what if:

“This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence – even this spider and this moon-light between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!” (Nietzsche, 1882)

So, if you had to live your life the same over and over again, would you be happy with your choices and actions, would you change anything? To give meaning and purpose to our existence, each of us has to invent our own philosophy of life. We all need to find our own truth, however what is true for us today might not be appropriate tomorrow.

 Ask yourself these two essential (and existential) questions each day.

1.  Who am I?
2. What am I going to do?

For more information on Mental Toughness and Hypnotherapy please see my details below.

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Author’s Details

Phil Pearl Phil Pearl DCH DHP MCH GHR Reg
Clinical Hypnotherapist – Harley Street & Kensington, London

Website: www.mental-toughness.co.uk
Email: phil@mental-toughness.co.uk
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Bibliography:

Nietzsche, F. (1882). Die fröhliche Wissenschaft. Translated by Walter Kaufmann UBNVAYFFQNC6

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