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Procrastination?
Procrastination can both be a blessing and a curse. Many of the world's greatest minds were procrastinators yet in today's modern day and age, procrastination seems like a curse that sets you back. Being a professional procrastinator myself, here are methods I use to tackle procrastination.
The hardest part to overcome procrastination comes first - start your task. Have you been procrastinating on paying your bills? Cleaning your apartment? Pick up that pen or mop and get started or else you'll never get around to doing it! Do not corner yourself into a state of mind where you tell yourself five more minutes on the couch. That five more minutes may multiply into an hour. Maybe even five hours.
Sit down and think. What will be the consequences of me not doing "blank"? How will this affect me? how will this affect others? Will I have too much to do in one day if I slide it off my plate for now? You may even want to write these down in a personal journal which is completely optional.
After you have started the task, give yourself an allocated time frame and a deadline by which you want to complete this task. If you have holiday homework to do. Divide it up into time frames. Say you have 6 pages of math homework to do. Get up early and start on it. Say you wake up at 8 in the morning. Break the math homework into increments of 3 pages. Get three pages done by at least 9:30 AM and 10:00 AM at the latest. Do the other three pages after a 15 minute break in which you walk around your room and try and get some oxygen flowing to your head. Get back to work and try to get the rest of it done by 11:00 AM. Now you can go back to sleep again!
Keep a planner or a piece of paper on your desk at all times. Keep track of what you have done and what you have yet to finish. Refer back to it when you have finished something and make this a habit.
If you follow these tips, these methods of fighting procrastination will slowly become daily routine and you will never find yourself scrambling the night before and grabbing a cup of coffee to keep yourself awake throughout the night.
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The hardest part to overcome procrastination comes first - start your task. Have you been procrastinating on paying your bills? Cleaning your apartment? Pick up that pen or mop and get started or else you'll never get around to doing it! Do not corner yourself into a state of mind where you tell yourself five more minutes on the couch. That five more minutes may multiply into an hour. Maybe even five hours.
Sit down and think. What will be the consequences of me not doing "blank"? How will this affect me? how will this affect others? Will I have too much to do in one day if I slide it off my plate for now? You may even want to write these down in a personal journal which is completely optional.
After you have started the task, give yourself an allocated time frame and a deadline by which you want to complete this task. If you have holiday homework to do. Divide it up into time frames. Say you have 6 pages of math homework to do. Get up early and start on it. Say you wake up at 8 in the morning. Break the math homework into increments of 3 pages. Get three pages done by at least 9:30 AM and 10:00 AM at the latest. Do the other three pages after a 15 minute break in which you walk around your room and try and get some oxygen flowing to your head. Get back to work and try to get the rest of it done by 11:00 AM. Now you can go back to sleep again!
Keep a planner or a piece of paper on your desk at all times. Keep track of what you have done and what you have yet to finish. Refer back to it when you have finished something and make this a habit.
If you follow these tips, these methods of fighting procrastination will slowly become daily routine and you will never find yourself scrambling the night before and grabbing a cup of coffee to keep yourself awake throughout the night.
My Website: http://www.odipt.co.cc/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/odipt
Facebook Me: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Odipt/178756988820436
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