Helpers and Blockers: Analyzing Factors in Goal Achievement

This essay delves into the factors that either assist or impede an individual's ability to achieve their goals, referencing the work of Van Waeyenberg, Brebels & Decramer (2017). It identifies procrastination, excuses, and negative influences as primary blockers, while highlighting creativity, motivating friends, and consistency as key helpers. The essay specifically analyzes procrastination as a significant obstacle, exploring its detrimental effects on productivity, stress levels, and the potential for other negative behaviors. It emphasizes the importance of long-term focus, avoiding excuses, having a motivator, acknowledging procrastination, and practicing self-forgiveness as solutions to overcome this common challenge. The essay concludes by underscoring the relevance of both internal and external factors, including the influence of one's social circle, in achieving personal and professional objectives.

Running head: HELPERS AND BLOCKERS
Helpers and blockers
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Helpers and blockers
Every individual has goals in life. In everyday people strive to achieve whatever they
have stated as their goals. It may be a workplace goal or an objective in personal life. In this
assignment, it is going to focus on things that can assist one to achieve his goal and factors that
may block one from attaining what he or she wants in reference to Van Waeyenberg, Brebels &
Decramer, (2017). The three main blockers to the achievement of a goal that one may face or
anticipate soon include: -
a. Procrastination
b. Excuse
c. Negative friends or workmates.
On the other hand, the three main helpers that can assist an individual to achieve his goal
include: -
a. Creativity
b. Motivating friends
c. Consistency
Among the above blockers, there are serious once which an individual may have the
challenge to deal with even in the workplace. In this task, it will analyze procrastination as a
severe blocker which can challenge an individual from attaining his or her goal according to
Duru & Balkis, (2017). Apart from that, the solution will give how one can handle
procrastination as a blocker.
Procrastination

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Procrastination is the act in which one postpones a task that they would have done today
to other days with the assumption that they still have time to handle it. Delaying is a severe
blocker to achieve the goal because it may make one lazy and fail to realize what he or she
desires in reference to Grunschel, Schwinger, Steinmayr & Fries, (2016). Considering
workplace, procrastination may cause stress and a lot of anxiety to an individual. For example,
every day there is a list of things that the employer needs the employee to achieve before the end
of the day. However, there are situations whereby the employee has postponed the task to the
next day. When it reaches the next day, the previous work has piled together with the last day
task; now the employee is under stress according to Martin, Edwards & Shaffer, (2015, July).
Secondly, procrastination makes an individual less productive than ever. Most of the time, one
may be working under pressure as well as disappointments for not achieving the task on time.
From this situation, one is not able to give his or her full attention to what he or she is doing but
remembering how to manage the task he had postponed the previous day in reference to Sirois,
& Pychyl, (2016).
Apart from the above effects, procrastination gives room for other blockers to come. For
instance, after postponing a task one will try to bring in excuses on why he or she had delayed
the task to the next day. However, apologies are a justification of failure. It means that the
individual has failed him or herself and even the company he is working. If the goal of the
company was to satisfy at least one hundred customers in a day, it might only achieve five
hundred or less according to Ordóñez & Welsh, (2015). Therefore, the organization has not
completed it a goal of the day. However, it is evident that almost everybody procrastinates, but
the extent of procrastination is different. Some people have made procrastination their habit, and
some time they end up losing their jobs. Now consider if he or she aimed to be a manager in an

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organization, no company can accept such character traits. In psychology, it illustrates that
people who continuously postpones their task are poor time managers and, in many cases,
procrastination becomes the habit of the individual. The individuals think they have more time
than the others, but this is not true. Everyone has only twenty hours that they should try to
manage efficiently to achieve their goals. Procrastination can make you shameful, have low self-
esteem, blame others and even divert from your destiny. It is therefore essential to find helpers
that can solve the issue of procrastination.
Solution to procrastination as a blocker
Procrastination is an enemy to development. The behavior always begins but continues to
grow on the life of an individual. From the confession of many people, they say that they say that
they have lost plum jobs due to constant procrastination. However, the issue has a solution.
There are several tips that one can implement in his or her life to abstain from procrastination.
These helpers include: -
a. Focus on long-term gains.
People who postpone job mainly look at short-term effects. For example, the stress associated
with the situation. However, there is no attention to the long-term consequence of not completing
the task in time. For instance, if you are a secretary and you have the duty of arranging the files,
it may look challenging and stressful. Consequently, if you postpone the task, it may be
inconvenient your boss, and you may end up losing the job according to Meier, Reinecke &
Meltzer, (2016). From that perspective, before one delaying a work he or she must analyze the
benefits of completing the task in in time.
b. Avoid excuses

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From many people who procrastinate, they say that there are various reasons why they postpone.
One of the common reasons is that they are not in the mood to do the task at that particular time.
Now they delay until they gain dispositions for the functions. However, all these are just excuses.
For one to achieve his or her goals, everyone must avoid explanations.
c. Have a motivator
Motivator is a great helper to assist one manage his or her goals and achieve his set objectives. In
this context, the motivation will help you to plan your time of the day and give the best for the
jobs that one has in the day. Apart from planning, the motivator assists in ensuring that one is
accountable for the time. For instance, he or she is the one who can remind you that instead of
engaging in that activity and risk postponing the job, divert your attention to the other task and
that can assist one to achieve his or her goal in reference to Martinčeková & Enright, (2018).
d. Accept that you are procrastinating
Many people do not admit their mistakes. However, to solve procrastination as a blocker is
recognizing that you have been delaying all that time and it is essential to change. Consequently,
before that changing one has also to list the reasons why he has been procrastinating all that time.
From there it very easy to identify on ways in which one can adapt to avoid such behavior
according to Reinecke, Meier, Aufenanger, Beutel, Dreier, Quiring & Müller, (2018). Even if it
is self-employment, one cannot achieve whatever he needs in his or her care through
procrastination.
e. The last way to fight the blocker is to forgive yourself on the past and focus on the future.
When one continuously looks back, it is possible to revert to the old life. The effects of
procrastination may have been making the person suffer in some ways everyone blaming him or

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her. However, it is an important one to forgive himself on the issues and focus on the new plans
according to Sirois, (2014).
In conclusion, whether in the workplace or personal life, several blockers can prove to be
a setback for one to achieve his or her goals. However, there exist several helpers as mentioned
above in the passage. The helpers apply in every context whether it is private employment or in a
workplace. Another thing that influences one to have the behavior of procrastination is the
friends that surround you or the workmates. It is crucial for one to have positive friends who can
act as his or her helpers.

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