4. Negative affects of procrastination
“Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot fun
until you get the bill” – Christopher Parker
• Physical experience (tension, headaches,…)
• Mental experience (stressed, self-critical,..)
• Study/work (miss opportunities, perform poorly)
• Within relationships (tense, fraught,…)
• Quality of life (negative, pessimistic,…)
5. Avoiding procrastination
- Get away from the Internet
(Facebook, Y!m, Twitter, Youtube,
Skype , Google +, etc.)
- Turn off computer unless necessary
(playing games, watching films,
etc.)
- Put your mobile phone away.
(making a call, texting, browsing,
gaming, taking photos, etc.)
6. 3 steps to overcome procrastination
1. Recognize when you start procrastinating
2. Work out why you procrastinate
3. Adopt Anti-Procrastination Strategies
7. Step 1: Recognize when you start procrastinating
Knowing
your priorities.
Some indictors include:
Filling your day with low priority tasks
Sitting down to start a high-priority task and getting distracted.
Leaving an item on your to-do list for a long time, when you
know it’s important
Saying “yes” to unimportant tasks
8. Step 2: Work out why you procrastinate
Reasons:
Find a particular subject unpleasant
Be disorganized
Feel overwhelmed by the task
Be a perfectionist
Have underdeveloped
decision-making skills
…
9. Step 3: Get over it!
Make up your own rewards
Ask someone else to check up on you
Identify the unpleasant consequences
Break the subject into a set of smaller, more manageable tasks
