Stop Procrastinating and Find Freedom: My Tips for Success
August 16th, 2011 | 
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Everyone at some point has had to do something they didn’t want to. It is an even more difficult task when you know that it is going to effect someone else negatively. I recently was able to do a self analysis about my own odd behaviors when it came to procrastination. Let me start from the beginning.
About two weeks ago, I had to tell two of my subordinate employees that they were going to be laid off. Considering the fact that both workers had children, both had families and obviously finances they had to contend with, I definitely did not want to tell them. One of the workers was a model employee and the other…well…not so much. Both employees were simply a victim of seniority and I found it more difficult to tell the model employee than the worker that was not as good. After I told each employee, I began questioning myself and wondered it there was a better way to do it without procrastination. Here are the tips for procrastination that I came up with.
The first tip for procrastination is that I would suggest is to do it immediately. During the course of the day, I felt the weight of the task getting heavier and heavier. It consumed my thoughts and it was very difficult for me to focus on other things. In fact, one of the employees ask me if I wanted a cup of coffee from the break room and I couldn’t even look her in the face. If I would have simply told both of them early in the day, I could have prevented all of those odd behaviors and saved myself some anxiety.
My second tip for procrastination would be to have support. I think that if I would have had someone else with me, I would have done much better. Just having another supervisor in the room with me would have helped tremendously. They may have been able to interject their thoughts and open up some dialogue. Also, mentally, I would have felt better just knowing that someone was there for support, even if they didn’t say a word.
My last tip for procrastination is to not have preconceived notions about the outcome of a task like this. I was a little surprised when I spoke to the model employee about the lay-off. After I finished telling her, she smiled. Obviously, I was a little thrown back by that reaction. She explained that she had been planning on taking some time off because her and her husband were knee deep in attempting to adopt a child. She found relief because she had been procrastinating about telling me. What a shock!
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