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Seventeen ideas how to get rid of procrastination
Submitted by Mgr. Magda Šustrová on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 16:37
- Become conscious of what procrastination causes, write it down a try to overcome the reasons for it.
- Inform others about your objective, tell them about it. This may help you work on your objective to avoid shame or to make a spectacle of yourself.
- Think about a suitable award for yourself you will be given after completing your task.
- Carry out the most challenging and complicated tasks when you are highly prolific (any time of the day when you have most the energy and mental capacity).
- Try to find something creative or positive in case of tasks which are not interesting and you do not enjoy, try to find their benefits.
- Put down the particular time into your diary when you consider starting a task - remember that to be involved in the task at the time when you plan it, is only an effort and not your main objective.
- Set a certain part of the day, always at the same time of day for fulfilling unpleasant tasks. If something becomes a routine, it will be easier to carry it out.
- Divide the bulk of the subject matter you have to learn into smaller parts and work on them in shorter periods of time. Otherwise the extent of the tasks will depress you and you will easily put it off.
- Set a list of advantages which come up after you fulfil the task instead of put it off and compare them with possible consequences which occur in case you put the task off.
- A voluntarily set deadline enables you to complete a task in a shorter period of time - pledge yourself to meet your own particular deadline for all tasks you have been putting off.
- Remind often yourself: "Even if it is unpleasant, I will do it immediately not to have to think about it anymore".
- Change the content of your thinking - close your eyes for three minutes and imagine exactly the situation which arises after you have reached the objective, you have passed an examination. Look for positive motives.
- Tell yourself that you will devote only five minutes to your task. Once you start, you will have a 95 per cent chance of completing the task.
- If it takes you too long to make plans, set a certain period of time for making plans. After it, concentrate on fulfilling the scheduled tasks. Modify plans only after you have dealt with the tasks which are not needed to be modified.
- Realize that only a small part of tasks in your daily plan is really important. Decide which of the tasks are not as much important and make an order of their priority, then delegate them to others or just let them be.
- If you tend to perfectionism, try to decrease the demands for your performance, you may also consult somebody who will help you get " more objective" feedback.
- Improve your self-confidence - look also for small successes and keep them in your mind, look for your own positive features, learn to accept compliments saying just "thank you" and do not forget to praise yourself for completed work.
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