One thing that’s hit home for me, in giving workshops on using meditation and other spiritual practices to transcend procrastination, is how deeply personal and unique everyone’s hangups and concerns about their careers are.  To use procrastination as an example, some people put off working to avoid anxiety about how others will receive what they [...]

In the last post in this series, I talked about the ways of thinking that tend to block us from developing what I call “inner productivity,” or the mental and emotional state that helps us to be efficient and produce our best-quality work.
As I said, in our culture, we’re conditioned to ignore or push aside [...]

In an earlier article, I discussed how procrastination can arise from a general feeling of dissatisfaction—an attitude of “nonacceptance” toward the world—and how letting yourself fully experience that dissatisfaction, without judging it or pushing it aside, can help you overcome the habit.  My focus here is another common cause of procrastination.  I suggest that, when [...]

At some point in your life, I’ll bet you felt like you weren’t getting enough done.  You wished you could keep your attention on your work, and stop “procrastinating” by doing frivolous or unimportant things, but it just didn’t seem possible.  I used to have this problem myself, until I had a realization one day [...]