The option of âwhy donât you just do it yourself?â is also suppressed under various pretexts such as âI donât have enough time resourcesâ or âI should learn to delegate more work to others,â and in the end, both options are postponed without being taken.
The reason I consider the above âpretextâ to be a pretext is that the phenomenon of âprocrastinating by not doing itâ would not occur if there was a chance of achieving it if you did it yourself.
âI donât have enough time resourcesâ also often means âI canât make a decision to prioritize allocating time resources because the expectation of what I can get is so low.â A common pattern when the statement âI donât have time.â is observed.
This situation is Prisoners of Thought thinking in terms of âdoing it myselfâ or âasking someone else to do it for meâ. choosing the wrong two options.
- As I wrote in the second half of I donât expect others to do it., this can be interpreted as a two-step process. You know best what you want to get, so you are in charge of getting it there in the end. I leave it to others to bring that starting point closer to the goal.
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- Here we are again choosing the wrong two options when we think, âIs it better if someone else does it first and I wind up with it later, or is it better if I do it first and leave the rest of the work to them?â
- For example, a realistic three-step solution would be for me to make a rough draft, ask someone else to draft it, and then rework the finished product myself.
- This ârough draft by yourselfâ is also a process to delegate, so itâs hard to start if youâre in an either-or state of mind about whether or not to delegate.
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