When it comes to beating procrastination so you can boost productivity, most people almost always focus on discovering just the right tip, tool, or techniques to boost motivation and make the task easier to carry out.
But there’s another aspect of procrastination that can be equally as important to address – and it can be the key to beating procrastination when it can seem so impossible to do.
A stress-is-enhancing mindset in the context of hindrance stressors is nowhere more apparent than in stories found in Undercover Boss, a reality TV series in which a member in upper-management at a major business goes undercover as an entry-level employee to experience the company from a worker’s perspective.
When people talk about procrastination, it’s almost always about tasks they put off doing. The tasks can be related to challenge stressors–too much to do in too little time–or hindrance stressors–barriers that block you from carrying out the job. The solutions to these stressors can be effective and may even energize you. The solutions renew your sense of control, mastery, and productivity.
But threat stressors are a different story.
Threat stressors take a heavy toll on your social and emotional health, and even on your body. You can disarm the myth that keeps so many people locked into the procrastination related to threat stressors and correct the misconceptions about how to tackle that procrastination.
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