The Power of "Just Do It" at Work

Procrastination can be misleading. For instance think of a standard email inbox and instead of getting emails about meeting minutes you are getting ‘tasks’ to put on your do to list. Before you know it, there are is one thousand unread emails sitting in your inbox. A productive worker would say to themselves, “okay, let’s get cracking!”

But there is several other characters in this scenario and they are all belong to the procrastination family. There is social media and his younger brother, YouTube and his twin sister, Vimeo. Sure procrastination can be very relaxing and fun; especially you are watching a comedy show on YouTube. But it is not making you productive, now is it?

In order to beat your procrastination tendencies, you first of all have to make a conscious decision to beat it, because the power of just doing tasks in and out of work comes from the power of your mind. And ironically it is your mind that is increasing your urge to procrastinate in the long run.

Such as, have you ever noticed that tasks become harder the longer you leave them? Your mind is probably creating a giant mountain for you to climb, when realistically you just have to write a memo. So the quicker you tackle tasks and get them done, the better you will feel in the long run.

This ‘just doing’ attitude will improve your tendencies to be productive until it becomes a habit and suddenly you are cutting out a massive chunk out of your inbox on a daily basis. Tackle the hard tasks first to get started. It does take twenty one days to break a habit and it is vice versa for creating a beneficial habit.

However, sometimes the fear of doing something can go hand in hand with procrastination. Do you have a fear of public speaking? Or, are you just not that confident with handling some specific computer software?

That is just probably your fear talking. Sometimes you have to take a risk in the workplace because you never know what could happen next. Such as, if you were a beginning account executive in a huge advertising firm and you’ve just had a brilliant idea for a new sales pitch.

Are you just going to sit on your hands and let someone else steal your idea? And rob you of a pay rise and praise?

Sometimes, you just have to do it and see it through in the workplace.