Stop Procrastinating - Tasks You Resent Being Given
This is often a symptom rather than a root cause of procrastination. If you feel that the task is boring, pointless, unpleasant, overwhelming, or unclear, or you are afraid of failing at it, then you would naturally resent being given responsibility for it.
However, if the task is none of these things and you still resent being given it, then this can become a trigger for not getting on with it. This is a natural passive-aggressive response to feeling aggrieved but having no other means of making your feelings known.
This suggests that either you are being unrealistic about what your job actually involves and you need to come to terms with it, or the work really has been unfairly dumped on you and you can't see any way to get out of doing it.
In either case, there is no easy solution although if you have been given work that you are not really responsible for then you need to consider why this has happened. Have you done or said anything that may have led others to think that you're happy to take the task on?
Even if you can't get out of doing the task can you prevent the responsibility for this type of work being given to you in the future? Is this something you can bring up with your boss in your next appraisal meeting? Is the task suitable for you to delegate to one of your team? The latter may mean you having to perform the task whilst offering someone else the opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge. Our Overcoming Procrastination eBook is designed to help you understand the problem better and learn some successful ways of dealing with it.
You may also be interested in:
Stop Procrastinating | Symptoms of Procrastination | Why People Procrastinate | Dealing with Boring or Pointless Tasks | Dealing With Tasks Involving Confrontation | Tasks That Appear Overwhelming | Tasks You Don't Know How to Begin | Tasks You Are Afraid of Completing | Lack of Motivation.
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