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Are You Living a “Remind Me Later” Life?
Are you proactive or procrastinating?
I was working with someone recently who stopped mid-sentence to check a reminder on her phone. As she clicked to have it remind her later, she mentioned that this was the fifth time it had reminded her to do this particular thing. What was this thing? Buying food for her cat.
After I confirmed that the cat still had food, I learned she had set this reminder a month before the cat would actually need food. She did this because “I know myself. I’m going to tell it to remind me all month until three days before she actually runs out of food and then I’ll go get it.”
I get it. I’ve been guilty of it myself. But I’ve noticed it tends to be a pervasive habit among many of my clients. They have so much going on they need to set reminders to ensure it all gets done. But when the reminders pop up, they have so much going on, they click “remind me later” and put it off.
In some cases, it’s not even about being busy. It’s about not wanting to deal with whatever it is in that moment, so they put it off.
But what happens when you spend your life clicking “remind me later?”
