Anth Quinn

If you answered yes, chances are you’re not alone. If you answered no, then chances are you may well be. The truth is that almost everyone in the modern world has procrastinated around some things.

I say modern world, because I’d be very surprised if people in the developing world procrastinate anywhere near as much as us in the developed world.

Procrastination in many ways is a luxury.

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I grew up alongside our local park and our back garden was always heavily overhung with chestnut trees and oak trees. As you can imagine this was great for a young kid, as every autumn there was always a huge supply of conkers to thread and play with.

However, my dad wasn’t quite as keen because it always attracted numerous squirrels!

As everyone knows squirrels really like nuts, especially squirrels, and the squirrels that lived in the trees around us were no exception.

Now my dad is a pretty good guy and it’s not that he begrudged the squirrels the nuts that fell in our garden. What he didn’t like was they way they didn’t discriminate. Those squirrels knew what they wanted and they were very very clear it was nuts they wanted and they weren’t overly bothered whose nuts they were.

For most of the year there weren’t enough nuts falling from the trees and that mean’s these squirrels got creative!

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As part of my ongoing research into what works in the field of personal development and transformation, I’ve recently revisited a number of programs I listened to before becoming a coach.

From my late 20’s onwards, I became increasingly fascinated by the field of personal development and while I was often inspired, I found that after a while I found myself drifting off back into my old habits and thought patterns.

Listening to some of these programs, it because increasingly apparent that even though the very best of the motivational speakers admit that they often struggle to make a long-term impact on people.

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I’ve been receiving a lot of questions from people asking if it’s OK to send the motivation worksheet to their friends? Or would it be best if they got them to sign up too?

As you will see, if you’ve tried it recently, we have disabled the ‘tell a friend’ feature due to concerns around whether it could help proliferate SPAM, and I get enough of that to dislike it as much as you, it seems the current favourites I’m receiving are: [removed]

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As promised in the last entry, I’ve attached a worksheet for you to use in increasing your levels of motivation.

Click the link below to access the pdf worksheet

http://www.empiricalcoaching.com/pdf/motivationworksheet.pdf

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If so, you’re not alone, we live in a technological world in which many people have quite simply lost their way.

In many ways it’s not surprising, we live in a world of bewildering choice, with increasing job mobility, pension’s uncertainty and the break down of the extended family is it any wonder people all over the developed world, people just lie you are asking, isn’t there more?

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Having accepted personal responsibility for our own lives, the next step in taking control of them is to identify and develop a set of clear goals.

Clear goals are essential to building the life we want, rather than settling for the one we’ve grown into. They will provide direction and motivation and, if well formed, they can literally transform our lives.

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The initial impetus to set goals is something for which we seem to have a natural tendency. To some degree we all set them all the time. However, achieving goals – actually seeing them through to completion - would seem to be less innate! When most of us sit down to set ourselves goals, there is a brief surge of energy, enthusiasm and progress before we lose momentum and eventually give up and drift back into our old ways of thinking and behaving.

Perhaps the most familiar example of this is the making of New Year Resolutions. Have you ever made one? Did you keep to it? If ‘Yes’ – Well done! What follows in this chapter may be familiar to you already. If ‘No’ - Take heart! The reason you didn’t succeed is probably attributable to the quality of your goal setting technique rather that the lack of will power you may well have blamed. You probably identified a vague wish or desire without making a firm commitment to action and change. If your resolution didn’t involve action and commitment, it wasn’t a fully formed goal!

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We often know at some level that we aren’t living the life we would like to. We may even have a clear goal – but somehow, frustratingly, we still just don’t seem able to make long-term sustainable change in our lives. Despite developing clear goals, deciding on a plan and taking action, somehow we continue to lose our way and find ourselves stuck back where we started – or, perish the thought, in an even worse spot than before!

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