Everyone is busy with work.
It seems that work is never done, always accumulating everyday.
However, why do some people can finish their work earlier than due date while you can’t?
Do you procrastinate often?
Do you intend to wait until the last minute before you could finish your job given by your superior or boss?
Do you always procrastinate, dilly dally your own sweet time before the last day to submit your income tax?
Well, you are not alone!
Majority of working adults have the bad habit of procrastination.
What is procrastinate
- finding excuses to avoid doing the tasks given
- prefer to accomplish easy tasks , leave the difficult tasks behind
- with intention to delay important tasks to a later date
- take own sweet time to accomplish tasks given
- put off tasks given until the dead line ( the last minute )
Disadvantages of Procrastination
- leads to stress, frustration, agruments
- initial plans had been intervene
- unable to accomplish tasks at deadline
- received punishment as according to the rules
- cannot accept failures or defeat
- refused to repent over mistakes
- push the blame to another person
In order to yourself from procrastinate, you need to have the will and determination to change your bad habits.
Here are 5 Ways How to Stop Procrastination
#1 – Set a timeframe
Many people used to say it is easier said than done.
This is untrue because if your have the will, there is a way to finish your tasks by deadline.
- Write down a To-do list and set a deadline beside each tasks
- Give additional time or day before the deadline
- Set several reminders or alarm in your smartphone to remind yourself of the deadline.
#2- Create a to-do- list
- Get an A4 paper, jot down the things that you are required to do
- Categorize each task, which is urgent and important
- It is better to input your to-do list into your smartphone
- There are many free apps online which helps you to organize your tasks
- Paste the to-do list at a visible and noticeable place ( for example: on the wall / whiteboard- infront of your work desk, fridge, door)
#3-Distribute your work
- it is difficult to accomplish a big task without another person’s help
- you do not know where or how to start
- Divide your tasks into several sections
- Ask your colleagues to help you out
- Alternatively, dividing tasks helps your to accomplish one step at a time, you are able to reach your goal
#4- Discipline Yourself
- Discipline yourself by making effort to “DO” the tasks as according to the timeframe
- Look for a thing or a person to make you accountable for your failure
- Tell yourself NOT TO DELAY anymore, you cannot dilly dally until tomorrow
- Discipline takes a lot of determination and responsibilities.
- Give yourself a little “treat” when you had successfully accomplish a task before deadline
- Refrain from giving excuses each time you had to do a difficult task.
- Get someone to discipline you instead!
#5- Don’t steal chickens
- One of the Chinese favorite phrase ( Tou Ji) “Steal Chickens” means to slip off from a job/ work, responsibilities, to escape from a job given
- Using the internet access in the company while working, is allright if it is work related.
- However, using the internet for your personal usage under your boss nose, is a dangerous mistake that might delay your job and prove your lack of management.
- Turn your smartphone to “silent” mode when you are working or studying
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Procrastination is a bad habit because it loses the chances of success in life because chances ever come in human life. The brave avail of chances bravely and the coward wait for the chances until happens mishap in life.
I think that Procrastination means to postpone doing something, especially as a regular practice. It is also to delay something that one should do and it is not done because one does not want to do it. There are habits that do not do any good to people but harm, procrastination is one among them.
Everyone procrastinates sometimes, but 20 percent of people chronically avoid difficult tasks and deliberately look for distractions—which, unfortunately, are increasingly available. Procrastination in large part reflects our perennial struggle with self-control as well as our inability to accurately predict how we'll feel tomorrow, or the next day.
Procrastinators may say they perform better under pressure, but more often than not that's their way of justifying putting things off. The bright side? It's possible to overcome procrastination
If you're honest with yourself, you probably know when you're procrastinating. But to be sure, take our Are You a Procrastinator? Add to My Personal Learning Plan self test.
Here are some useful indicators that will help you know when you’re procrastinating:
Filling your day with low priority tasks from your To Do List.
Reading e-mails several times without starting work on them or deciding what you’re going to do with them.
Sitting down to start a high-priority task, and almost immediately going off to make a cup of coffee.
Leaving an item on your To Do list for a long time, even though you know it's important.
Regularly saying "Yes" to unimportant tasks that others ask you to do, and filling your time with these instead of getting on with the important tasks already on your list.
Waiting for the “right mood” or the “right time” to tackle the important task at hand
I think if ant procrastinator will act upon these steps he will overcome this bad habit.