The Untold Facts About Procrastination

Procrastination actually refers to the act of delaying a certain task or tasks. This is really a challenge but can be remedied. Procrastination happens because one finds the task to be too complicated. In fact, it is a self-esteem issue. Our unconscious mind is misguided. The reason why the task is more stressful? It's because of not much time is allocated to complete it.

According to studies, we can fool our brain into getting things done on time. How? By recognizing how desperately we are looking for something to do, and see it is our mind playing a trick on itself.

While it may seem impossible, but we can overcome the challenges of procrastination and can actually get things done. Lesson learned - No matter what we need to accomplish, there's nothing wrong about slowing down in moving forward towards our goal. Tendency is if we rush on something, we commit more mistakes like what happened to me recently. But the bottom line is our willingness to accept our faults and do something to become better.

If we can find a way to have immediate rewards of our long-term choices, then it becomes easier to avoid procrastination. One of the best ways to bring future rewards into the present moment is to have commitment. Our commitment can help us stop procrastinating by designing our future actions ahead of time. We can make the task more achievable.

Our commitment can also force us to make tough decisions. It removes the friction of starting. The biggest obstacle in finishing most tasks is starting them. In other words, it requires us to single-task. I am used to multi-tasking.But reality is - having fewer priorities leads to better work.

Though the challenge that causes procrastination is usually centered around developing a behavior. Once we start doing this, it's not difficult to keep working. This reduces our procrastinating habits. We can make tasks more achievable by breaking them down. Small measures of progress help to maintain momentum over the long-run, which means we're more likely to finish large tasks. The faster we complete a productive task, the more quickly we can develop an attitude of productivity and effectiveness.

By being consistent, we can also stop our procrastination habit. We need a clear structure in deciding what is important and what we should work on first. We can write the most important things that we need to accomplish tomorrow by organizing them according to their degree of importance. When we go to work the next day, we concentrate only on the first task. We work until the first task is finished before moving on to the next. Then, we treat the rest of our priorities in like manner. At the end of the day, we move any unfinished items to a new to do list for the following day.

We can start by doing the most important thing first and then let the momentum of the first task carry us onto the next.

Make the future consequences become present consequences. It is okay to sacrifice the present moment for a reward in the future. Never depend on long term consequences but break those down into single steps to be more achievable.