“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of
diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.”
-Wayne Gretzky
Procrastination is the practice of doing things that is more
pleasurable and avoiding things that need to be accomplished. In other words,
procrastination is the practice of keeping work for a later time. People tend
to procrastinate until the last minute of deadline. Procrastination is the most
common habit of people and had a great impact on success and happiness of life.
It can also lead a person toward stress, guilt, depression, and self-doubt.
You have a due date approaching. On the other hand, rather
than doing your work, you are fiddling with various things like checking email,
online networking, watching recordings, surfing websites and gatherings. You
know you ought to be working; however you simply don't have a craving for doing
anything.
Postponing, putting off things, slacking, escaping work,
confronting work just when it's unavoidable is procrastination phenomenon. It
is a bad habit which leads our life toward stress, guilt and prevents us from
achieving greater things. Therefore, don’t let habit of procrastination take
over your life. I have mentioned below the tips to stop habit of
procrastination that I have found in internet and some suggested by my friends:
1.
Break
your work into little parts: The reason behind our procrastination habit is
that we sub-consciously think work needed to be done as bothersome and not
exciting at all. Therefore, try to break your work into little parts and work at
one part of a work at a time which can make you feel that you can do easily the
given work easily. You can also take a short break after completing part of the
work.
2.
Change
your environment: One of the factor that trigger our mood to do work or not
is environment. Suppose the exam is coming near and you have to study but if
your room is disorganized and your books and notes are not in proper place,
will you have mood to study, of course not.
So, change your environment into one which will motivate to do things.
3.
Eliminate
the things that help you to procrastinate: Figure out what is helping you
to continue your procrastination habit such as facebook, movies, friends or
anything or anybody. While you are doing your work or project it is better for
you to stay away from these things and better turn off automatic notification
of your smart phone.
4.
Hang out
with people who motivate you to take action: Stay away from people who are
lazy and always keep things for later. It is said that bad habit is learned
faster than good habits. Try to spend more time with people who is very
hardworking, can guide and help in doing things.
5.
Get a
companion: Doing things alone and doing with a buddy can make a difference
and make doing things interesting. Preferably, your pal ought to be somebody
who has his/her own arrangement of objectives. Both of you will consider one
another responsible to your objectives and plans. While it's a bit much for
both of you to have the same objectives, it'll be shockingly better if that is
the situation, so you can gain from one another.
6.
Tell
others about your goals: If you tell about your goals to your family
members, relative, friends, colleagues, and other people whom you know then
they will ask certainly about your goal whenever you meet them. It is a great
way to make yourself accountable.
7.
Seek out
someone who has already had good results: Identify what you want to
accomplish first? And try to find out people who had already achieved goal that
you have set. If you find people who had already achieved goal same as yours
that will motivate you to do things as your goal seems achievable and makes you
think that if other can do that than why I can’t.
8.
Re-clarify
your goals: If procrastination habit is in the way of doings then you are
forgetting about your own goal and what you really want to do. So, try to think
about your goals and what you really wanted to do and the reward and punishment
of doing things or not doing.
9.
Don’t
complicate things: Are you thinking that this is not a perfect time to do
things? Are you waiting for a perfect time for doing things? Ditch that kind of
thinking because there is no perfect time to do anything. It is you who takes
the action and make things right or wrong. So, don’t complicate things and stop
procrastination habit.
10.
Get a
grip and just do it: At the end, you have to do things that you have been
keeping for later time no matter what. No matter how you plan things, it
doesn’t have value until you take action. Procrastination habit will only make
things worse as you have to complete things just before deadline. So get a grip
on yourself and do things needed to be done right now.
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