Often in our lives, we get confused about what to do and what not to do. It is very normal in certain situations of life. Even life coaches all over the world face certain situations.
Every one of us gets into decision paralysis from time to time. We don’t understand whether to take option A or option B. Most of the people coming to my life coaching programs complain about this tendency of the mind.
This decision paralysis leads to procrastination. With time, it becomes our habit to procrastinate things.
In order to overcome this, we try to motivate ourselves to do tasks. But many times, there are certain tasks that need time, that need patience.
In this article, I, Sahil Kumar Nagpal, Author and Life Coach in India, will shed some light on how we need to know when to wait patiently and when to act vigorously.
What Is Procrastination?
In simple language, when you delay your actions that are necessary to be conducted at the moment, it is called procrastination.
For example, you need to send the project completion bill to the client, but you keep delaying. You need to make a decision whether to quit the job and start your own business, but you keep delaying your decision. You need to start walking in the evening, but you keep on delaying.
What Is Patience?
Patience is an act of waiting for your actions, with focus on the ongoing process. In a way, patiently waiting is an inward action.
For example, you are in a meeting, and you see that your juniors are giving incorrect information during their presentation, but you wait for them to finish and then provide your feedback. You see your subordinate making a mistake, but instead of ignoring his mistake or just yelling at him, you help your subordinate to get better.
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Confusion Of Most Life Coaching Students
Many times, people are going on the right path. They are being patient, but people around them often confuse them, or they themselves become confused about when to take action and when to wait patiently.
As a life coach, it is my role to explain to them the difference between waiting and procrastinating. My role is to give them a higher perspective, which gives them that extra edge and clarity. That further helps them in effective decision-making.
How Will I Know If I Am Procrastinating Or Having Patience?
Procrastination and patience are both patterns. One is created unconsciously, and the other is created generally by conscious, concentrated, and consistent efforts. One pattern will help you grow slowly and steadily, and another pattern will destroy you slowly.
Let’s say you have decided to do a task. If you are procrastinating, it means you are not consciously thinking about the task. And so you are not doing anything about the task.
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But if you are thinking about the task, and you have strong reasons to wait for the right time to execute the task, then fear not. There is a right time for everything.
When you have sown the seed, you don’t go and check the soil every day. If you do it, you will ruin the harvest. So, what you do is, you wait and observe. You think, you plan, and when the time is right, you take the next step.
When in a given situation, you have analyzed, you have the goal in your mind, and you are researching, in many ways, you are being patient.
But also, be wary, the mind plays tricks. I have observed this in many people; they do a lot of research, but they do not execute it on the ground.
These are the people who are looking for perfection. In order to make things perfect, they tend not to begin the task. In such cases, the person needs to do the task anyway. Irrespective of the results one will get, the person needs to do the task. The essential thing here is not the results but to create the habit of executing tasks.
