E-FFORT Ex- fortis (Out-force)

In my executive coaching practice, I have faced some common complaints from companies regarding its executives and their work to be done. One is procrastination, the avoidance and/or delaying of tasks that affects the organization’s planning and advancement of projects and on-going initiatives. A second complaint is the triggering of initiatives and just “taking the first step” that seems to take forever to get started. A third one is the “slowing down,” loosing boldness, motivation or enthusiasm in assignments that take team members to drop or quit their participation.

When time comes to execute or do a planned activity, sometimes we experience a contrary tendency or internal movement that prevent us from acting. We imagine ourselves doing what we meant and start feeling lack of energy; at the same time, we build a whole story in our minds regarding why we shouldn’t do that and how difficult would it be. Our mind pictures “hard work.” We might skip the task with the logical consequences or we can actually complete the task, finding out it wasn’t that hard after all.