I'll do it tomorrow

I hear this a lot when I'm coaching. Towards the end of a coaching call ( for more on this see www.coachingatthenextlevel.biz) I move the client towards some agreed actions.

when we've agreed what the client would like to do a common answer to the next question, "When will you do that ?" is "I'll do it tomorrow! " This is the same if the person is planning to do five or six different things or something which will require planning or something which requires a business to be open and tomorrow is Sunday ...... you get the idea.

We all do it. We can see what we want to do and we trust oursleves to "do it tomorrow". But of course there is always another tomorrow and many of us have too many things to do tomorrow and thus we develop the habit of procrastination which is a very tiring and demotivating habit.

So next time you find yourself thinking "I'll do it tomorrow." Check your diary; is tomorrow a good day for this task, if not choose a better day. Write the task into your diary making sure you give yourself enough time to do it and then treat it as an appointment with someone you think of as really important ... becuae of course you are the most important person in your own life.