Lack of clear goals Having clear goals in each of your life roles is essential to establishing some sort of equilibrium. Most often, we need help extricating ourselves from the demands of work. Clarifying your goals is more effective in changing your behavior than making to-do lists. Think about it. Having this goal provided direction and motivation.
People frequently resist the idea of articulating clear goals for their other life roles.
But perhaps this is why work often overtakes the rest of your life. All of us have tasks we prefer to avoid. And avoidance is the crux of procrastination. We procrastinate in order to push back the anxiety created by the possibility of failure or the inability to meet standards set by significant others. People who set their own standards for success do not procrastinate.