Your Coachee always puts off or delays tasks, even when they require immediate attention. Tasks will often get done very last minute.
Limiting Beliefs
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Your Coachee needs to identify common limiting beliefs that prevent him/her from living the life that he/she desires and reshapes them positively. A Limiting Belief could be “I need to do things perfect” It’s not that I failed, it’s that I didn’t have enough time to succeed”– struggling to make decisions because he/she is always looking for the perfect outcome.
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Ask your Coachee to imagine and write on a paper his/her life if money and time was no issue. Write as many details as possible. Step 2: ask your Coachee that are preventing him/her to reaching this dream life. Step 3: ask him/her write the childhood negative stories he/she tells himself/herself such as "my parents were poor", "my father was violent". Is there any overlap between Step 2 and 3. Analyse the answers.
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The 360
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The 360 helps highlight the difference between the perception of self and how others see the person. The 360 may help bridge that gap.
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Think of 5 people whose opinion your Coachee respects and trusts. Ask them for a 360 feedback. For example: what are the coachee's key strengths, achievements, what they value the most about your coachee and one area of improvement.
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Break the Habit of Procrastinating
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Procrastination is an habit that can be broken. The trigger of procrastination is always stress. Avoiding doing something, often through distraction, gives the Coachee a stress relief. Make the Coachee acknowledge the stress and break the habit right ahead, not indulging into a distraction.
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Common Symptoms
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Always putting off or delaying tasks, even when they require immediate attention
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Often late for appointments
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Often on social media
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Having uncertain goals
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Spending too much time dreaming about the future
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Feeling overwhelmed
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Giving lousy excuses for not delivering on time
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Experiencing difficulty concentrating
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Holding onto negative beliefs
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Experiencing personal problems
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Becoming or being easily bored
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Setting unrealistic goals
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Being afraid of failure
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Low self-esteem
4 Techniques
to Help Overcome Procrastination
The Eisenhower Matrix
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The Eisenhower Matrix, also referred to as Urgent-Important (UI) Matrix, will help your Coachee decide on and prioritize tasks by urgency and importance, sorting out less urgent and important tasks which he/she should either delegate or not do at all. Procrastinators have a tendency to set unrealistic goals. Make sure the tasks and goals are SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-based). Break the tasks down.
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Ask your Coachee to list his/her tasks positioning them in the matrix below. Analyse where most tasks are, then for each quadrant, do as mentioned:
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Sources:
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The Impostor Syndrome: Becoming an Authentic Leader, by Harold Hillman, Chris Abernathy, et al
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The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction: A Guide to Coping with the Grief, Stress and Anger that Trigger Addictive Behaviors (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook), by Rebecca E. Williams PhD and Julie S. Kraft MA
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Coach's Casebook, by Kim Morgan
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Compassion for All Creatures, by Janice Gray Kolb
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Perfectionism: A Practical Guide to Managing "Never Good Enough", by Lisa Van Gemert
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The Fulfillment of All Desire, by Ralph Martin
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Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment, by Tal Ben-Shahar
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The Disease To Please: Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome, by Harriet B. Braiker