How to Avoid Procrastination
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Prevent Procrastination
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If you continue doing exactly what your doing right now,
where would you be in five years?
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The secret is simple.
Nothing happens without hard work. The
lazy don’t succeed.
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Have you ever come up with below situations
• I will do it tomorrow. I’ll start next week, next month, next year
• When I have more time I’ll do it.
• Have you ever spent more time worrying about a task than it took to do the task?
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What is a
Procrastination
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Procrastination personalities
These people feel there are rigid standards about how thing ought to be done and they fear they will fail
• Self-Doubt
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Procrastination personalities
This person avoids activities that will cause them distress, discomfort or anxiety, so tensions mount because of this avoidance
• Discomfort
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Procrastination personalities
The person feels guilt over tasks undone, but rather than correct the original lack of action continues to procrastinate in order to not face up to the guilt feelings
• Guilt - Driven
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Procrastination personalities
The person has procrastinated so many times, it becomes an ingrained response.
The person no longer thinks about why they do it, they feel it's just a part of themselves
• Habitual
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Procrastination at work
• Difficult or unpleasant
The task is difficult or unpleasant so you either don’t want to do or don’t know how to do it
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• Small task
Procrastination at work
The task is a small one, it won’t take long and can wait until later.
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• Huge task
Procrastination at work
The task is huge, it’s difficult to know where to begin
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• Low Priority
Procrastination at work
The task is low priority, you will do it at last moment
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• Delay the task
Procrastination at work
If you delay the task, it might not need doing at all
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• Run out of work
Procrastination at work
You don’t want to run out of work; you might look expendable
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• More urgent
Procrastination at work
You do your best work under pressure so let’s wait for the task to become a more urgent matter
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Costs associated with procrastination
• Poor quality work
Procrastinating on important tasks means that you have less time in which to complete them, which invariably leads to rushed poor quality work
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Costs associated with procrastination
• Time Pressure
Leaving things until the last minute results in anxiety and time pressure as you go all out to complete tasks before the deadline
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Costs associated with procrastination
• Failure to achieve important goals
This can be one of the most depressing and frustrating aspects of procrastination
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Costs associated with procrastination
• Missed opportunities
Procrastination causes you to miss wonderful opportunities that you never even consider or explore.
This can lead to guilt and regret as you realize what you are missing
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Costs associated with procrastination
• Waste of the present
Wasting the present is probably the biggest cost of procrastination.
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Is procrastination a disease?
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Is procrastination a disease?
• Physiological
Roots of procrastination mostly surrounds the role of the prefrontal cortex
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Is procrastination a disease?
• Physiological
Prefrontal cortex area of the brain is responsible for executive brain functions such as planning, impulse control, attention, and acts as a filter by decreasing distracting energy from other brain regions
Damage or low activation in this area can reduce an individual's ability to filter out distracting energy, ultimately resulting in poorer organization, a loss of attention and increased procrastination
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Procrastination Survey
• At least 95% of us procrastinate at least occasionally and about 15-20% of us do it consistently and problematically.
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Procrastination Survey
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Ways To Prevent Procrastination
• Physical
Exercise
Food
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Ways To Prevent Procrastination
• Schedule your time in smaller increments
If your time frame is too far off in the future, deadlines becomes generalities.
There is a difference between saying, 'I'll write one chapter a week' and saying, 'I'll write four chapters a month'
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Ways To Prevent Procrastination
• Create hard-and-fast deadlines
Instead of thinking you will work on your project for three hours every morning, determine when you want certain tasks completed
If the boss hands you an assignment, she/he doesn't say, 'Work on this each day', she/he says, 'Have this on my desk by next Friday'
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• Map out all of your deadlines on one calendar
That way, you'll see that your tasks are all interrelated. If your task today affects your task tomorrow, you will experience an "urgency to act"
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• Switch up your environment
If your working environment makes you want to snuggle up and take a nap, change it immediately.
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• Hang out with other people who don't procrastinate
Hang out with people who inspire you. They'll infuse some of their drive and spirit into your work ethic.
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• People who are already living your dream
Connect with people who have already achieved your dream and seek advice on how they accomplished it.
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• Announce your goals to others
If your friends and colleagues know about your projects, they are bound to ask you about them on a regular basis - serving as an accountable reminder.
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• Eliminate distractions
Eliminate the distractions that forcing you to procrastinate.
Ways To Prevent Procrastination
For example, if Facebook is causing you to procrastinate, deactivate it for a short period of time. If email is the problem, turn off your automatic notifications.
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• Force yourself to keep going
When you feel your interest become weaker, put one foot in front of the other.
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• Reward yourself
Ways To Prevent Procrastination
If you spend too much time on something, you may start to resent it.
Realize that hard work should be rewarded with a nice meal at your favorite restaurant or a trip to the movies.
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• When your plan is failing, RE-PLAN
Some goals weren't meant to be achieved then take a step back and decide what it is exactly that you want to achieve and what steps you should take to get there
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• Stop waiting for the perfect time
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• Keep in mind that your work space affects your productivity ...
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• Perfectionism
Ways To Prevent Procrastination
Don’t be perfectionism, give you self dead lines, it is better to have some thing up there 80% then have nothing up there
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