For animal health pros who work five-day weeks, 21 selling days have already expired this year. That equals about 8.5 percent of your year already gone. Veterinary practices and retailers have 325 days remaining to reach goals.
Now is a good time to assess whether you or your team(s) are working toward the main objectives and at the right pace. Our perfection drivers and task avoidance behaviors can waylay the work required to achieve annual objectives which drive business goals. Yes, it is busy during convention season, but not all team members attend those conferences.
Elizabeth Lombardo, Ph.D. offers 11 ways to overcome procrastination in this article. Chris Bailey shares 5 research-based strategies for overcoming procrastination.
Source: Harvard Business Review, October 4, 2017.
On a neurological level, procrastination is not the slightest bit logical. It’s the result of the emotional part of your brain, your limbic system, strong-arming the reasonable, rational part of your brain, your prefrontal cortex. The logical part of your brain surrenders the moment you choose Facebook over work or decide to binge another episode of House of Cards when you get home. When you notice an approaching showdown between logic and emotion, resist the impulse to procrastinate.
Also see: Psychology Today, March 7, 2017.
In psychology, it has long been believed that people who procrastinate have a faulty sense of time; that they think they will have more time to get something done than is available. While procrastinators may be trying to avoid distress, this approach can ironically cause more distress in the long run.
INSIGHTS: If you’ve clicked through to the full post but closed the window because you allotted 15 minutes for the AHD Bulletin today, then copy the link and put it into a task or calendar reminder for a time you set aside for reading or personal improvement. Simply setting an appointment or task can help you act on something you want to complete.