Conquering procrastination when you have unclear goals

One cause of procrastination are unclear goals. Conquering procrastination can involve setting clear goals. Unclear goals can lead to ambiguity and a lack of motivation - leading to procrastination.

Often when I give clients homework to set goals, the most common difficulty they have is setting specific and measureable goals. To properly set goals to reduce procrastination, the goals need to be SMART goals. That is they need to be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-based.

If your procrastination is due to other reasons, click here for more efficient solutions to your procrastination.

These other causes are:

• not wanting to do an unpleasant task,
• being overwhelmed with work and not knowing where to start,
• overcommitting to too many tasks,
• fear of change, or
• fear of failure