Procrastination

If you’ve found yourself putting off important tasks over and over again, you’re not alone. In fact, many people procrastinate to some degree-but some are so chronically affected by procrastination that it stops them fulfilling their potential and disrupts their careers.
The key to controlling this destructive habit is to recognize when you start procrastinating, understand why it happens (even to the best of us), and take active steps to manage your time and outcomes better.

What is Procrastination?

In a nutshell, you procrastinate when you put off things that you should be focusing on right now, usually in favor of doing something that is more enjoyable or that you’re more comfortable doing.

If you're procrastinating because you're disorganized, here's how to get organized!
Keep a To-Do list so that you can’t “conveniently” forget about unpleasant or overwhelming tasks.
Use an Urgent/Important Matrix to help prioritize your to-do list so that you can’t try to kid yourself that it would be acceptable to put off doing something on the grounds that it’s unimportant, or that you have many urgent things which ought to be done first when, in reality, you’re procrastinating.
Become a master of scheduling and project planning, so that you know when to start those all-important projects.
Set yourself time-bound goals: that way, you’ll have no time for procrastination!
Focus on one task at a time.
If you're putting off starting a project because you find it overwhelming, you need to take a different approach.

Here are some tips:

Break the project into a set of smaller, more manageable tasks. You may find it helpful to create an action plan. Start with some quick, small tasks if you can, even if these aren't the logical first actions. You'll feel that you're achieving things, and so perhaps the whole project won't be so overwhelming
If you’re procrastinating because you find the task unpleasant: Many procrastinators overestimate the unpleasantness of a task.
So give it a try! You'll find that it’s not as bad as you thought!

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