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Contents
How To Defeat Procrastination ..
Characteristics Of A Procrastinator ..
Underlying Causes Of Procrastination ..
Cogent Reasons Why Procrastination Must be Stopped.
Effective Ways to Defeat Procrastination .
Procrastination or commonly known as the delaying of tasks is a
typical problem that a lot of people experience nowadays. Learning
how to defeat procrastination as well as laziness can serve as a big
help for you to increase your effectiveness and improve your
productivity in both work and life.
Procrastination is an intricate psychological behavior that is
associated with those individuals who develop and acquire a bad habit
of delaying tasks. More often than not, we’ve been through a point
where we have experienced delaying things needed to be done on
time. Well, that is for sure. Everyone had been affected by the habit
known as procrastination up to some extent.
However, for some individuals, this undesirable behavioral problem
became a part of their daily life, which turns out to be their source of
continuous anxiety and stress and this had greatly affected their
performance and progress in work and life.
As a result, they miss a lot of opportunities, wasted a lot of work
hours, experienced resentment, stress and guilt for not finishing what
they are supposed to do. Sad, but true this can happen to anyone
once they allow procrastination to take over their life, instead of the
other way around.
The truth is most procrastinators exactly know what they need to do.
However, for certain reasons, they keep repeating this bad habit which
prevents them from finishing the job that they need to do. Before, you
will know how to defeat procrastination, it is very important that you
should know first the characteristics and common causes of this
problem. Understand them as they are imperative in overcoming
procrastination.
Characteristics Of A Procrastinator
More often than not, procrastinators possess a positive view of their
ability to finish the work on time. This kind of thinking results them to
delay their task until there’re no any other options left but to finish the
work at hand without considering the date of accomplishment. In turn,
this act is followed by a burst of anxious efforts to complete the work
accompanied by their innate response to justify their action like “lack
of time” or “I like to work under pressure”.
The common characteristics that procrastinators have are:
• Unorganized
• Stubborn behavior
• Manipulation
• Low self esteem and self confidence
• Inability to cope with pressure
• Fear for failure
• Fear for change
• Fear to face the unknown
• Stressed, tired and overworked
• Perfectionism
• Indecisiveness
• A feeling of too busy to do the task
Even though this problem might not seem to be that serious, this can
cause disturbing effects to the life of an individual. Procrastinators
often experience the feeling of helplessness and weakness together
with the frustration of not having the ability to control their life.
Underlying Causes Of Procrastination
Going back to the definition of procrastination, putting of things
needed to be done on a specific period of time or avoiding things
resulting to delayed accomplishments of tasks. Now the question is
what leads procrastinators avoid doing something they are supposed
to do? The answer boils down to two things and that is fear and
desire.
Fear and desire are the 2 main factors involved in terms of inaction
and action. Desire can be best explained like as the source of
motivation to move forward. Without desire, people do not have the
driving force to take action. On the other hand, fear is like the
darkness that prevents you to keep on moving forward.
More often than not, if fear is more dominant than desire,
procrastination occurs. But if desire is more dominant than fear, action
happens.
If people suffer from fear and along with it they lack desire in doing
something, the end result is that procrastination will prevail and will
take over their life – affecting everything they do throughout the day.
• Lack of desire
One of the most powerful factors that cause procrastination is
lack of desire. More often than not, procrastination happens to
people because they lack desire in what they do. People are
more likely to suffer from procrastination due to the fact that they
do not love what they do or they are less interested to the things
they are supposed to do.
Even though this may look like weird, if you will examine
carefully these certain areas in your life where you are
procrastinating as of now, your answer is more likely to be
related to a particular fear that you are experiencing right now.
This, in particular, is very common to those individuals who are
perfectionist in which procrastination occurs as a resultant
behavior because they fear doing something that will be in a less
perfect manner than what they have envisioned. Hence, this
impacts their idealized images, which in turn affects how they will
perform in order to complete the task. Nevertheless, this leads
them to procrastinate.
If in this point of time, you are thinking that procrastination is
something that you should not worry of. Perhaps, you should think
again. Procrastination could turn into a big problem sooner or later
and by the time you may even realize it, it is already affecting your life
negatively.
So, with this, here are the cogent reasons why you should act
immediately and defeat procrastination all at once.
Cogent Reasons Why Procrastination Must be Stopped
If you will not act now to stop procrastination, it will lead you to suffer
from a number of big problems not only in your work, but more
importantly, in your life as well.
• Procrastination can lead to low quality of life.
• Procrastination can lead to trouble at work.
• Procrastination can lead to less productivity at home, work and
life in general.
• Procrastination can lead to frustration and depression due to the
things that you didn’t accomplished.
• Procrastination can lead to failure, especially when it comes to
achieving your personal goals.
• Procrastination can lead to missed opportunities in work and in
life.
• Procrastination can lead to serious disappointment once you
failed to satisfy your own expectations and others’ expectations
as well.
There are others more, but these are the things that you are likely to
experience when you will not get rid of this problem in your life.
Although this may seem depressing and disturbing, there’s no longer
need for you to worry as it is absolutely possible for you to defeat
procrastination on your own. As long as you will start now to stop it
affecting and controlling your life, you can overcome it.
While there are some people who may think that procrastination is
part of our daily life and we will experience it in everything we do,
there is something you can do to avoid it and defeat it.
To overcome procrastination, the first and most important thing that
you should do now is to decide whether you want a better life for
yourself or let it be this way – allowing procrastination to take over
your life and affecting everything you do. If you want to get rid of
procrastination in your life and experience a better life from this day
forward, here are the things that you should do. Follow them and
implement them in your life now.
This will surely help you to overcome procrastination.
Effective Ways to Defeat Procrastination
1. Recognize the problem, identify the cause and take
appropriate action to defeat it
One of the most important things that you should do to defeat
procrastination and be more productive in work and life is to
recognize the problem and understand what causes it.
More often than not, you will face the problem of procrastination
while you are not using your time wisely to complete important
tasks or even when you work on unimportant tasks instead of
starting on to finish high priority tasks. Leaving the work pending
longer than the date of accomplishment or putting off high priority
tasks, which are needed to be done for a specific amount of
time, are indication that you are experiencing procrastination.
Here are some things that will greatly help you to know if you are
procrastinating.
• You are procrastinating when you are working with low
priority tasks instead of high priority tasks.
• You are procrastinating when you are putting first low
priority tasks in your to do list.
• You are procrastinating when you are using your time for
unimportant things rather than starting to work on high
priority tasks.
• You are procrastinating when you are starting to work on a
high priority task and then suddenly you try to do
something else such as taking a break or making a cup of
coffee.
• You are procrastinating when you leave a task unfinished
in your to do list for a long period of time, even though you
are fully aware that it is very important that you should
finish it on time.
• You are procrastinating when you tend to work on
unimportant tasks which others ask you to do so, and
putting more time on them to work on instead of finishing
an important task that you are doing.
• You are procrastinating when you are waiting for the right
time or the right mood to deal with an important task that
you are working on.
• You are procrastinating when you are making an excuse
not to do what you are supposed to do.
Once you notice that you’re procrastinating, take an appropriate
approach to overcome it. One of the best things to do this is that
you must prioritize the tasks according to their importance.
Make a schedule of what needs to be done. Create a checklist or
to do list of all your tasks during the day and arrange them
according to how important they are. Try to set priorities in all of
your daily tasks. You need to prioritize all of your tasks by putting
the most important tasks on top and the less important tasks at
the bottom so you will be in the right direction.
Set tasks by category such as high priority tasks for important
ones and low priority tasks for unimportant ones. Complete those
tasks that are in your top priorities first and when done then you
can finish those tasks that are in your low priority. Do that one
task at a time. In this way, you are more likely to finish the work
on time as well as avoid delaying those important tasks that you
need to complete.
2. Act now and just Do it
When you already have a to do list or a checklist for your daily
tasks, start working on the task by focusing on starting it instead
of finishing it. Although you may get depressed because of the
difficulty of the task and get pressured because of the deadline,
do not allow that undesirable feeling to control you. If you do so,
this will only create fear as well as resistance towards your task
that will affect your performance and in turn this will have a
negative impact on how you will do your work.
Rather than stressing yourself or depressing yourself over the
difficulty of the task, just focus your attention and effort in starting
the task. No matter how hard it is, just do it. Having a to do list
and starting one task at a time are the best ways to defeat
procrastination.
3. Divide the project into smaller tasks
The size of a task is more than enough to frustrate and depress
people, which in turn can lead them to have a lack of interest or
desire to work on it and complete it. However, instead of dwelling
on how big the task is, make an effort to break the project into
smaller manageable tasks. In this way, you will be able to easily
build an action plan to deal with the task more effectively.
More often than not, people procrastinate on big tasks because
they do not know what to do next when they start working on it.
This keeps them away from continuing the work and finishing it.
So, to prevent this, take some time to evaluate the task. Break it
down into smaller tasks.
Once you have a plan, start working on smaller tasks that are
easier and faster to finish. Doing so will greatly help you to have
a sense of achievement and motivation each time you
accomplish a specific task. And this leads you to work further on
the task.
4. Beat your fear and love what you do
Having a lack of desire and the feeling of fear for something will
greatly prevent you to work at your best performance. And so,
this will lead you to procrastinate. In order for you to work
effectively and productively, you should love what you do. See
the tasks not as a problem you need to solve on, but rather as
achievements you need to work on.
Never fear anything. If you will, it is more likely that it will going to
be true. Don’t be afraid that you will commit mistakes in
completing the task. This is normal and nothing to fear for.
Accept that you will commit mistakes once in a while or accept
that you will have to go through the hardship before you can
accomplish the work at hand. Eliminate any fear that you feel.
This will help you to be more productive.
5. Reward yourself even with simple things
More often than not, if you are stuck to a task, it is more likely
that you will develop a negative feeling of being trapped and that
can lead you to be frustrated as well as overworked.
Give yourself some time to break free from the hectic schedule
and treat yourself with small rewards such as having a coffee
time with friends so that you can enjoy while working on the task.
Believing in your capability to finish the task and working with it is an
effective way to overcome procrastination. Having a good
understanding of how to defeat procrastination as well as developing
good organizational and time management skills are essential ways to
effectively beat procrastination in the long run.
Combined with effective planning and dividing your work into smaller
manageable tasks can greatly help you to overcome procrastination
successfully. Bear in mind that this is a continuous process and you
really need to try it over and over again before you could fully
understand how to defeat procrastination in home, school or office.
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