What Do You Procrastinate About?

It’s not just you. It is a bad habit we can all relate to, and it is a big deal. If you think about it, it most likely impacts many parts of your life — work, school, paying bills, buying groceries, keeping a clean home, maintaining your relationships and social connections, maybe even going to sleep.

Why ask yourself this uncomfortable question? The first step in overcoming any bad habit is to acknowledge it. In most cases, procrastinating indicates that there’s something you’re running away from and trying your best to avoid. it can be any numbers of things: feeling overwhelmed by a lot of work that needs to be done, fear that we don’t understand or have the skill to do something well, embarrassment due to putting off something that others seem to find easy to do, dealing with the expectations of others that it must be done (usually family members or people in our immediate social circle), justifying it with the thought that something must be done perfectly or else there’s no point to it, and so on.

If you know you’re procrastinating about something but never really find the time to sit down and think about it, give yourself the space to do it this weekend. Make it your top goal to find out what you are running away from.

Here are five things you can do to make progress.