Revisa tu postura corporal. La postura corporal habla de nosotros, de cómo estamos y nos sentimos, este mensaje no es solo para los demás también es para nosotros mismos, con nuestra postura le estamos enviando un mensaje al cerebro de ese estado en que nos encontramos. Para ilustrarlo nos trajo una imagen muy elocuente que describe perfectamente este punto.

¿Dónde está tu foco? En lo que quieres alcanzar, en tus metas o en aquello que no te deja accionar.

¿Por qué te resistes? Quizás es una de las preguntas más importante que nos podemos hacer y cuya respuesta es posible que requiera que reflexionemos cuidadosamente en ello porque cuando conocemos lo que nos produce resistencia podemos trabajarlo para salir de la situación.

Identifica tu motivación ¿Cuál sería el beneficio. Se encuentra muy relacionada con la Fórmula trabajada, cuando hayamos los beneficios que una acción nos traería tenemos nuestros motivadores.

Rompe las barreras del perfeccionismo y el miedo. Son dos limitaciones para la acción. A veces dejamos de hacer las cosas porque pensamos que estas deben salirnos perfectas y si bien es cierto que la perfección es algo subjetivo colocar nuestro mayor esfuerzo en lo que hacemos es el ideal, no dejar que este miedo al error, a no llenar expectativas nos arrope es tiende a disminuir en la medida que vamos avanzando en un paso a paso, lo más importante es comenzar.

Disposición para reinventarte y salir de la zona de confort. Estar dentro del marasmo de la procrastinación requiere que nos revisemos para encontrar allí aquello que nos llena y apasiona y salir de ese espacio al que nos hemos ido acostumbrando aún sabiendo que podemos transformarnos.

Para cerrar nos recordó estas tres palabras claves para lograr cambios.

La procrastinación nos resta energía, vitalidad, va apagando la motivación y el entusiasmo sacándonos del bienestar tanto interno como externo, prestarle atención y trabajar en ello es una gran meta porque el Arte de Vivir radica en hacer de cada día, el mejor día.

In English

"To procrastinate or not to procrastinate" is the title of the podcast that yesterday, August 31, 2022, we managed in "The Art of Living". A provocative title to open a healthy discussion on a topic that, perhaps, few, many or all of us, at some point, for various reasons have experienced it.

The program focused on characterizing the multiple faces of procrastination, the feelings that surround it and some suggestions to break the procrastinating circle. For this @miriannalis, our guest to the mini-interview @emiliorios, all the participants who joined the get-together and myself were contributing from our knowledge how we live and work procrastination. To all present: Thank you, thank you.

If something characterizes the procrastinator is the frequent use of procrastination phrases: Monday I start, tomorrow I do it, I'm going to start seriously, in a little while... Now, it is good to distinguish this procrastination from laziness, not doing things by choice, either because we consider that such action does not make sense to do it, because it is not convenient to do it, or because our time planning was not very successful and we did not have enough time to do it.

No, procrastination is something else, it is to stop doing something even though we know that it will harm us, it is a way of evading, doing other things to avoid facing a decision, a responsibility or an action that we know we have to do.

Hence, one of its defining characteristics is that it produces inner discomfort because with it we feel guilty, remorse and a mental noise that gives us no rest. In the most unexpected moments comes the idea of the unrealized and that is when we say to ourselves: I have to do it, I can't wait for the days to go by, the date is approaching and I still haven't started. There are two key words in the act of procrastinating: avoidance and discomfort.

So it's good to ask yourself which emotions are behind procrastination.

Boredom. Possibly, the most frequent is boredom, that disinterest in the pending task, we do not find in it any motivation or reward after doing it.

Insecurity we doubt our ability to complete the activity and do it well.

Resentment. This is closely related to the feeling of injustice. The task seems to us that it is not ours to do, that the burdens are not balanced.

In this regard, @emiliorios emphasized that from the medical point of view, procrastination causes a deterioration of mental health because it manifests emotions that destabilize the person and that behind these emotions is the fear of facing realities and we use other activities to evade, reaffirming that procrastination is the result of not dealing with the emotions produced by the various situations that present difficulties and we are trapped without looking for strategies to get out of the situation.

Among the emotional consequences that procrastination brings us we find:

Anxiety. Procrastinating is filling the backpack making it heavier, this weight translates into worry that keeps us tied to the -I have to do-I have not done- creating a constant state of urgency, an overwhelming feeling that we have many pending issues and that time is not enough.

Frustration Setting a goal, having a responsibility and not fulfilling it, fills us with a feeling of frustration that translates into considering that we lack the capacity or commitment to carry it out, with its consequent collateral damage to our self-concept and that grows exponentially as we leave more things for later, becoming a cycle that is sometimes difficult to break.

@miriannalis presented us with a test to help us determine how much of a procrastinator we are and the truth is that it was fun because the answers had a clear tendency towards "sometimes", recognizing us as procrastinators in some aspects.

Then, he presented us with a formula that gathers the elements that lead us to action as opposed to procrastination, highlighting that it is the interest in what we do, the motivations and disposition we have that move us towards an action, so when we are faced with a situation that we do not "see" some of these values we tend to leave it for later.

In this sense, the idea is to find the "reasons" why to do it and from there to take action. He gave as an example a medical visit, which we have been postponing, if we stop and begin to value its importance for our health and well-being we will find the precise components of the formula and we will take action.

With this idea we enter the suggestions brought to us to overcome procrastination, always making the caveat that everyone finds their own way, what really works for them.