What are the “The Three Foes of Self-Management”? Based on your own experiences, which of these are the biggest problems?

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Renn, Allen, and Huning (2009) demonstrated the negative effects that self-defeating
behaviors can have on employees. They studied 298 counselors and teachers who worked in a nonprofit agency while providing a variety of counseling, adoption, and educational programs for children and families. They found three self-defeating behaviors that hindered some employees from using three types of effective self-management techniques (personal goal setting, self-monitoring of progress toward goals, and operating on or following through to achieve goals). First, they found that the inability to delay gratification hindered goal setting. It is often easier to choose short term, pleasant, and easily performed tasks than it is to set one’s sights on more difficult, long term, and important tasks. Second, procrastination was even more devastating: It hindered goals, monitoring, and operating or following through. The third problem was emotional self-absorption, which is the endless obsession and rehashing over events and personal problems. It increased procrastination and reduced the use of effective monitoring of goal progress.