Most of the people nowadays fail to get a job well done in real time or end up with a poor outcome because they just can’t help themselves from procrastinating.
Procrastination is a perfect way for us to get stuck up and yet, many of us keep being totally unaware of this phenomenon controlling and harming our lives. Unknowingly, we always easily create or find persuasive arguments right in our minds to delay the tasks that are at hand.
Nevertheless, you must decidedly avoid it if you want to be productive.
Don’t ever let procrastination take over your whole life. Don’t do it because you can avoid it.
Here are12 effective strategies for you to avoid procrastination and become more productive.
8. Or sometimes you start immediately and then you notice
how the efficiency decreases, you get systematically
distracted and motivation fades away.
9. This unproductive state of things is known to
everyone and it is often the natural outcome of
procrastination.
10. The main difference between a loser and a
winner usually lies in a person’s daily habits.
11. People nowadays fail to get a job well done in
real time or end up with a poor outcome
because they just can’t help themselves from
procrastinating.
12. Procrastination is a perfect way for us to get
stuck up and yet, many of us keep being totally
unaware of this phenomenon controlling and
harming our lives.
13. Unknowingly, we always easily create or find
persuasive arguments right in our minds to
delay the tasks that are at hand.
14. And the worst part is that often times this feels
to us pretty natural.
15. Procrastination is in fact normal and all of us
instead of working just fool around from time
to time. However…
29. Identify what distracts you the most (checking social
media updates, email, cell phone etc.) and get rid
of them until you are done.
30. You may even temporarily deactivate your Facebook
account
31. No worries to reactivate you will simply need to log in
32. Alternatively, you may think of using a relevant
software to block your online distractions. There are
plenty of them on the web like FocusMe, Cold
Turkey or Freedom.
33. You may also consider putting your phone to an
airplane mode.
34. Trying to stay focused on important things you need
to have done is a sufficient excuse to be
inaccessible for a while.
36. Sometimes we have small yet very important or
even crucial tasks that we postpone.
37. Two-minute rule by David Allen suggests to
immediately do your work or task that will take no
longer than two minutes.
38. This rule is applicable when you need to reply to an
important email for instance but feel like not willing to do
it right now although it will take two minutes at best.
39. According to two-minute rule, you just reply to that email
immediately and do not let yourself to even start thinking
of delaying.
40. You automatically do whatever takes less than two minutes
and become incredibly productive with this small shift in
your attitude.
41. As an addition to David Allen’s rule, we recommend
changing two-minute rule into the five-minute rule in
order to cover a wider range of tasks.
42. If you never postpone whatever takes you just five minutes
to do, you’ll heavily increase your productivity.
48. This is an another effective way to fight procrastination.
49. In order to get extra motivation you may consider taking
away something bad (or something you really do not want
to do) as a motivator.
50. For example, you may let yourself skip cooking and have
flakes instead if you finish the work in time or whatever
you absolutely do not want to do.
51. Does not sound that exciting, but still may work.
Give it a try!
53. When negative reinforcement does not work well for you
then you may try penalty method to fight the
procrastination.
54. It’s quite simple - you just punish yourself if you do not get
things done on time and let say do not go out that day or
run an extra mile at the evening jogging.
55. Try to set positive penalties such as doing some extra sport
or eating healthy food.
56. This way the penalty method will benefit you in any case:
you’ll either finish the task in time or do something useful.
60. While visualizing try to feel that amazing excitement of
victory. This is what you are going to feel when you’ll
achieve all your tasks and become amazing.