Procrastination
We all have days when we let work pile up. There are hundreds maybe thousands of little things to do but we fear facing any of them. The tasks remain untouched and unmoved, the inbox starts filling up and it seems an uphill task to get anything done. You’d rather have all of the stuff magically disappear and you could breathe a sigh of relief.
Well I hate to burst your bubble but that’s not going to happen. The work will not get done on its own, the inbox will not be cleared and no magician is waving their wand to make your workload disappear. Making it disappear is your job and the magic formula is simple. Get to work!
Leaving things to be tackled later can be from shear laziness or from the fear that the task is difficult or maybe boring. Some tasks seem so daunting you keep pushing them off till later hoping something will come up that will take the task away.
Reconciling customer’s payments, filling out forms, looking at expense sheets, subordinates claim forms, all seem trivial things and they take up time and effort. Honestly, they’re not fun. Yet, they are important for business as they help run your department and your company.
Rather than procrastinating about them, have a plan to tackle them. Develop a system which allows you to handle the tasks as they come to you or set aside a time dedicated for handling these tasks. Do whatever suits you best.
Leaving tasks aside and not handling them only means that they remain unfinished and at some time or the other they will become urgent. It also means that they will start taking up your time which you could be spending on more vital tasks.
So better stop procrastinating and get to them when they are not as urgent so you can make time for tasks that are vital.