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Delivering Time Management for IT Professionals: A Trainer's Manual

Delivering Time Management for IT Professionals: A Trainer's Manual

By : Jan Yager
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Delivering Time Management for IT Professionals: A Trainer's Manual

Delivering Time Management for IT Professionals: A Trainer's Manual

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By: Jan Yager

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Delivering Time Management for IT Professionals: A Trainer's Manual
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
Preface
Introduction

Procrastination


Procrastination means putting off something you should be doing, which is usually something you are resisting or a task you don't want to do, by doing something else that is not on your list of priorities.

Possible causes

There are entire books on procrastination, such as the classic Overcoming Procrastination by psychologists Albert Ellis and William Knaus, as well as the more recent Solving the Procrastination Puzzle by Timothy A. Pychyl. From my own research and observations, in a nutshell, the causes behind procrastination can be divided into these categories:

  • Reluctance to perform the required task

  • Unresolved emotional issues

  • Practical constraints

  • Strategic concerns

  • Positive benefits of procrastination

A reluctance to perform the required task includes everything from just not wanting to do something because it's boring, repetitive of something you've done before, or because you simply would rather be doing pretty much anything else but whatever you're putting off.

Unresolved...

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