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"How to Stop Procrastinating: 10 Practical Ways for Procrastinators"
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You have a deadline looming. However, instead of doing your work, you are fiddling with miscellaneous things.
It’s a bad habit that eats us away and prevents us from achieving greater results in life.
I will share 10 steps on how to stop procrastinating.
It’s a bad habit that eats us away and prevents us from achieving greater results in life.
I will share 10 steps on how to stop procrastinating.
1. Break Your Work into Little Steps
Part of the reason we procrastinate is that we find the work too overwhelming for us subconsciously.
Break it down into little parts, then focus on one part at a time.
If you still procrastinate on the task, then break it down even further.
Part of the reason we procrastinate is that we find the work too overwhelming for us subconsciously.
Break it down into little parts, then focus on one part at a time.
If you still procrastinate on the task, then break it down even further.
2. Change Your Environment
Different environments have different impacts on our productivity. Look at your work desk and your room. Do they make you want to work or do they make you want to snuggle and sleep?
If it’s the latter, you should look into changing your workspace.
Different environments have different impacts on our productivity. Look at your work desk and your room. Do they make you want to work or do they make you want to snuggle and sleep?
If it’s the latter, you should look into changing your workspace.
3. Create a Detailed Timeline with Specific Deadlines
Having just 1 deadline for your work is like an invitation to procrastinate. That’s because we get the impression that we have time and keep pushing everything back until it’s too late.
Having just 1 deadline for your work is like an invitation to procrastinate. That’s because we get the impression that we have time and keep pushing everything back until it’s too late.
Break down your project, then create an overall timeline with specific deadlines for each small task.
Your timelines must be robust, too – i.e. if you don’t finish this by today, it’s going to jeopardize everything else you have planned after that.
Your timelines must be robust, too – i.e. if you don’t finish this by today, it’s going to jeopardize everything else you have planned after that.
4. Eliminate Your Procrastination Pit-Stops
If you are procrastinating, maybe that’s because you make it easy to procrastinate.
Identify your browser bookmarks and shift them into a separate folder that is less accessible.
Get rid of the distractions around you.
If you are procrastinating, maybe that’s because you make it easy to procrastinate.
Identify your browser bookmarks and shift them into a separate folder that is less accessible.
Get rid of the distractions around you.
5. Hang out with People Who Inspire You to Take Action
I’m pretty sure if you spend just 10 minutes talking to Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, you’ll be more inspired to act than if you spent the 10 minutes doing nothing.
The people we are with influence our behaviors.
I’m pretty sure if you spend just 10 minutes talking to Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, you’ll be more inspired to act than if you spent the 10 minutes doing nothing.
The people we are with influence our behaviors.
6. Get a Buddy
Having a companion makes the whole process much more fun. Ideally, your buddy should be someone who has his/her own set of goals.
Both of you will hold each other accountable for your goals and plans.
Having a companion makes the whole process much more fun. Ideally, your buddy should be someone who has his/her own set of goals.
Both of you will hold each other accountable for your goals and plans.
7. Tell Others About Your Goals
Tell all your friends, colleagues, acquaintances, and family about your projects.
Now whenever you see them, they are bound to ask you about your status on those projects.
Tell all your friends, colleagues, acquaintances, and family about your projects.
Now whenever you see them, they are bound to ask you about your status on those projects.
8. Seek out Someone Who Has Already Achieved the Outcome
What is it you want to accomplish here, and who are the people who have accomplished this already?
Go seek them out and connect with them.
Seeing living proof is one of the best triggers for action.
What is it you want to accomplish here, and who are the people who have accomplished this already?
Go seek them out and connect with them.
Seeing living proof is one of the best triggers for action.
9. Re-Clarify Your Goals
If you have been procrastinating for an extended period of time, it might reflect a misalignment between what you want and what you are currently doing.
If you have been procrastinating for an extended period of time, it might reflect a misalignment between what you want and what you are currently doing.
Get away from your work and take some time to regroup yourself.
What exactly do you want to achieve?
What should you do to get there?
What are the steps to take?
Does your current work align with that? If not, what can you do about it?
What exactly do you want to achieve?
What should you do to get there?
What are the steps to take?
Does your current work align with that? If not, what can you do about it?
10. Stop over-complicating Things
Are you waiting for a perfect time to do this?
That maybe now is not the best time because of X, Y, Z reasons?
Ditch that thought because there’s never a perfect time. If you keep waiting for one, you are never going to accomplish anything.
Are you waiting for a perfect time to do this?
That maybe now is not the best time because of X, Y, Z reasons?
Ditch that thought because there’s never a perfect time. If you keep waiting for one, you are never going to accomplish anything.
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