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HBR 20-Minute Manager Boxed Set (10 Books) (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)

by Harvard Business Review
May 2015
Beginner
1244 pages
13h 49m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Managing Time
56
Overcome procrastination
We all put off work—usually more so the more we
dread actually doing that particular task.
That’s not always a bad thing. If the work is un-
important and non-urgent, it should be low on your
list of priorities in the fi rst place, after all. But when
you have the choice to do (a) more important work,
(b) less important work, or (c) nothing at all, and you
consistently pick (b) or (c), procrastination can be-
come a real problem.
Understanding why you’re procrastinating can
help you stop. Often it’s because either the task is
something that you don’t want to do, that you’re not
good at doing, or that you fi nd too daunting. When-
ever you feel the urge to procrastinate, ask yourself if
one of those reasons is ...
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