How Coaching Can Help Overcome Procrastination

Procrastination delays an assignment, or defers important decisions altogether. It’s not uncommon for people to put off important work or avoid it entirely.

The results of procrastination can have physical, mental, emotional, and sometimes occupational repercussions. The stress and fear of not following through creates subconscious habits that lead to less and less productivity. Continuing along the failed path causes more and more problems and missed opportunities.

If you’ve missed the earlier parts of this featured series, the full set of articles is at:

Featured Series – Procrastination

This is Part 10 of our Featured Series. In the last article, we talked about hypnosis as an important tool to help you overcome procrastination. To reiterate a key point of the last article, both hypnosis and coaching can be helpful with procrastination.

Hypnosis helps resolve underlying thoughts, feelings and beliefs that develop into fears, worries, confidence killers and demotivating beliefs. Coaching won’t do that unless you live by willpower alone.

It’s better to address the underlying detractors and get them out of the way. Then you have a clear path with coaching. You can find solutions, new goals, a direction to focus on and work directly with an accountability partner.

Coaching and Procrastination

Coaching can be a valuable approach to overcome procrastination and reach your goals. With professional training, coaches can help pinpoint the source of procrastination and pursue solutions to overcome it. Throughout the process, an accountability partner can keep you on track.

That brings up an important point. In my hypnosis and coaching practice, your success is always about you being “All-In” to do the work.

I tell my clients that we are a team, and it is critical that we work together. I’ll take you where you need to go, but we have to work through the issues together. Given that, accountability is important to ensure you reach the positive progress you deserve.

Working with a professional coach can assist you in overcoming procrastination to realize success both personally and professionally.

The Necessity of Resolving Procrastination

Throughout this series, we’ve discussed how procrastination is a tendency to postpone tasks or decisions until later. The problem is that it hinders productivity, effectiveness and success in professional and personal fields. NOT addressing procrastination only guarantees you don’t reach the level of success you’re capable of.

It’s like a slow bleed left untouched that weakens you.
Procrastination needs to be addressed.

Benefits of Working With a Coach

A good coach helps you discover practical solutions and create an atmosphere conducive to growth and progress. A key contributor to procrastination is the perception that tasks are too large or too complex.

These thought patterns can amplify feelings of stress that lead to an avoidance mode. It’s easy to avoid any efforts to a task if it seems like an impossibility.

Clear Goals, Objectives and Milestones

Through coaching, you can look at the larger task and set clear goals, objectives, and milestones. A professional coach works with you to break larger goals into smaller, attainable ones. For instance, you and your coach can break the large, perceived unattainable tasks into 10 smaller objectives.

Confidence Building

With each completed milestone, you have a new success to hang on your belt. That builds your confidence and helps you see the goal. Would you prefer 10 successes, or one with completion that doesn’t seem realistic?

Remember, we’re talking about procrastination. Given the approach of partitioning your tasks into workable steps, you strengthen your internal beliefs. You CAN get things done. Because… throughout the process, you ARE getting things done. With each success, your confidence grows, and that allows your goals to expand to higher levels.

Time Management

A key area of coaching is building time management skills, an area where procrastinators often struggle. You and your coach can apply tailored strategies or techniques that align with your work style and preferences.

Work-Life Balance

Building your time management skills helps you to set realistic deadlines, clear priorities, and employ productivity tools. This is an area where managing time gives you better a work-life balance, and a happier life. When you have a happier life, your motivation increases.

Coaching is an engaging, supportive process that empowers you to take charge of your life. You can overcome barriers that once held you back. By investing in yourself for coaching (or hypnosis as described previously), you become a better you.

With higher personal and professional productivity, you can overcome the challenges of procrastination.

About the Author

Anthony M. Davis is a Certified Leadership, Success and Stress Coach. He is a clinically trained Board Certified Hypnotherapist.

He has earned a national reputation for his Transformative Life Centering work with clients from across the nation. His unique approach helps clients remove underlying fears and triggers, and then through coaching, helps them pursue and accomplish life and career goals.

He provides coaching and Hypnotherapy sessions remotely through Zoom. If you have challenges with procrastination, Contact him HERE to create the life change you desire.

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