Most people to end up pondering about this question: work fast and not-so-deep or work slow and deep? The right answer is, it depends. But, on most occasions, working fast helps. If the work is periodic and you have a chance to rectify mistakes, which is the case for most of the work that we …
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Executive dysfunction could be the reason for procrastination in some people. In fact, a lot of procrastinators do feel that executive dysfunction explains their behaviour closely. Read this blog to get a difference between them. Also, read
- https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/executive-functioning-issues/understanding-executive-functioning-issues
- https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/executive-functioning-issues/4-ways-executive-functioning-issues-can-affect-your-childs-social-life
- http://capt-tom.blogspot.in/2013/01/anxiety-and-executive-function.html
- https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/executive-functioning-issues/everyday-challenges-for-young-adults-with-executive-functioning-issues
There’s a spot on my kitchen floor, a little cluster of dried reddish drips. I don’t know what it is. If it’s from 3 days ago, it’s tomato sauce. If it’s been there longer . . . who knows.
I’ve walked past it dozens of times. I look at it. It annoys me. I wonder how it got there. I wish it would go away. It doesn’t occur to me that I can make that happen.
The greasy smudgey fingerprints on the cabinet that I can only see in exactly the right light? The 8-inch long thread that’s been hanging off the bathroom rug since the last vacuuming? The dryer sheet on the laundry room floor? Same thing.
What is this? Why can I sit here and catalog all of these little annoyances yet I still do nothing about them? It’s not like fixing them would take a huge amount…
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An effective executive does not need to be a leader in the sense that the term is now most commonly used. Harry Truman did not have one ounce of charisma, for example, yet he was among the most effective chief executives in U.S. history. Similarly, some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I’ve worked …
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This is an article I liked and found valuable on Psychology Today. The link to the original article is here. Over the last few weeks, we’ve looked at the four behaviors that differentiate a functional manager from a true leader. As you know, I refer to these behaviors as the “Phenomenal Four,” which include: Cultivating …
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With the busy lives that we lead today, it is getting difficult to even get the recommended 8 hours of sleep . For some of us, we feel fatigued even when we get the recommended 8 hours of sleep or more. So, we wonder how to get good quality sleep and feel energetic even with …
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Procrastinators are addicted to instant gratification and hence most of the times they are onto YouTube videos, chats, reading unnecessary articles etc. that give instant gratification second to second. On the other hand, most tasks that we do in our life have a longer gratification cycle. Therefore, a procrastinator's subconscious mind sees these tasks as …
I read somewhere 'Discipline is the art of checking how late the other person gets'. Business schools teach that discipline is used by people to make the other person feel guilty and then ask for favor in return. Whatever it is, discipline is one trait that really matters in job success. But, we see some people …
The more unhappy you are, the more you wander or think to solve that unhappiness. This implies that you are not in the present. Therefore, the more unhappier you are the more you procrastinate Or probably unhappiness is just created within to serve the purpose of procrastination. Refer to Psychology Today's article on Depression and …
The below post is a Harvard Business Review post written by Peter Bregman, CEO of Bregman Partners.He is the best selling author of the book 18 Minutes. Please find the original post here. Yesterday started with the best of intentions. I walked into my office in the morning with a vague sense of what I …
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This is a blog post from Harvard Business Review Blog Network and it is written by Meredith Fineman. I am re-blogging this post as I felt the article is spot-on and it is relevant to all our lives. The post starts below.We’re all just so “busy” these days. “Slammed” in fact. “Buried.” Desperately “trying to keep our …
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