Procrastination is a bad habit, it stops you from maximizing your potentials since you only end up rushing through your task so as to meet deadline.
However, there’s no easy way to stop procrastination. It takes painstaking effort because to stop procrastination means to end a habit and ending a habit, you’ll agree, is not an easy task.
Now here are tasks to do to overcome procrastination;
1. Acknowledge the fact you are procrastinating: Most times, people want to deny the fact or avoid the risk of being pointed at as the victim of procrastination but it shouldn’t be so. If you begin to put things off until further notice or switch your attention because you want to avoid doing something, then you are procrastinating.
2. Find strategies of Anti-procrastination: You have to let go of the tasks you have changed your focus on in the past like self forgiveness. It can as well make you feel positive about yourself and and decrease the tendency of procrastination.
Secondly, another strategy is focusing on the task before you and not evading it. Write a to-do list and put down the time for each of the tasks penned down on paper. This will help you to actively be engaged with the work.
Thirdly, Reward yourself. When you complete a particular task on time as scheduled, you should take yourself out like having a treat, seeing a movie etc and make sure you know how pleasant it feels when you finish things.
3. Avoid Distractions: There’s a willpower in every human which is a limited resource that can be depleted like any other form of energy? the more energy you spend withstanding temptation, the less energy you’ll have for withstanding temptation later on which has been confirmed in related researches. For instance, your mind easily remembers to check your facebook feeds, twitter feeds, see the latest gist, play a game when there are lots of tasks to do, you may resist the temptation in the first few hours of your workday but as you keep on focusing, there’s a tendency you might become more likely to give in to temptation. To avoid this, you can simply put off your smartphones or in case where you don’t want to miss calls, you can shut off notification sound and bar of your social media feeds. Not having to deal with the temptation of constant distractions will not only make it less likely that you’ll succumb to momentary temptation, but it will actually give you more energy to focus on your work and avoid procrastinating when you’re tired.
