From the course: How to Motivate Yourself to Do What’s Most Important
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Understanding your obstacles
From the course: How to Motivate Yourself to Do What’s Most Important
Understanding your obstacles
- [Instructor] You keep putting something off. But why? There could be a number of reasons, and figuring out what's really behind your procrastination is essential to correcting it. Here are three common barriers you may be facing and ways to overcome them. The first obstacle is that you simply don't know what to do. Maybe there are five things that could be priorities and you aren't sure which is the most important. In that case, seek out guidance from your manager about where they think you should focus. Alternately, you can ask for advice from knowledgeable colleagues or simply pick one priority, focus on it for a while, test it out, and see how much traction you're getting. You can adjust as necessary. A second possible obstacle is that you might know what to do but you aren't sure how to do it. You might have a huge goal, raise revenue by 50%, but you have no idea where to start so you feel paralyzed. If that's the…
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