My Ways Of Avoiding Procrastination - Writing Contest

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Introduction

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Good evening everybody, my name is oluwatimileyin and I am happy to join you in this community.

I am very much interested in this week contest organized by @goodybest on how to avoid procrastinating, this is indeed a great selection of topic , as procrastinating gas a way of drawing us back when it comes to decision-making, but let's take a look at what procrastination is.

What is Procrastination?

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Procrastination is more of a habit of an individual, it's also a feeling of laziness,which occurs when you feel the need to postpone an activity to later , or you are filled with the doubt of how bulky the activity will be, then afterwards, you postpone it.

Procrastinating is mostly caused due to the act of laziness accustomed with many other things, and this leads to a lot of hindrance, when procrastinating, you always feel that you are not yet ready , you keep doing this Everytime and you may never get ready.

Personally, I procrastinate as well, whereby in a situation I feel that I should set a task for something, but Instead I feel that I am not yet ready for it now then postponed it to later, when later comes I still end up procrastinating, this is really a bad behavior that we need to put an end, and on this article, I will explain how to avoid procrastinating.

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MY WAYS OF AVOIDING PROCRASTINATION

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There are multiple ways of avoiding Procrastination as we all have our weakness, what might be convenient for me might not be convenient for others, but these are the better tasks have choosen for me to avoid procrastination.

1.Set Up Your Plan For the day - They've always said failure to prepare leads to preparation to fail, when you set up your plan, and you are ready to commit your day to the said activity, then procrastination is no way to be found around you.

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To avoid procrastination, one must plan ahead of an occasion, you set up your idea and strategy, include it in your daily act, set up a note on your phone of each task you want to perform for the day, do this and you shall be good to go.

2. Avoid Laziness - Laziness is the major cause of procrastination, once you were able to get rid of laziness , then you gotten the total rid of procrastination in your life , laziness will always make you feel down, make you feel that you are not ready and by doing this , you might eventually not be ready.

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I have been able to avoid procrastination by stop being lazy, laziness is natural we all feel it attimes, but sometimes it gets the best part of us , to get rid of laziness is to avoid being lazy, stop putting your mind to it , refrain your mind from whatever is making you feel lazy or whatever is puting you down and get up and set to work.

3 - Leave Your Comfort Zone - This is also a new method of avoiding Procrastination, you procrastinate when everything is too easy for you, you don't feel the need to want to go any further since you are already comfortable.

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When you are too comfortable in a position, you feel no need to want to do anything, you just want to stay on bed all day, and watch movie or do something that is too relaxing, whereby you adjourned any useful activities because you are too comfortable.

I do try as much as possible to leave my comfort zone whenever I want to get a job done, because when you stay on bed all day, you feel like you have finally have it all, so by doing this, you no longer want to get anything done again, or you no longer have enough time to complete the task in the said day.

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Conclusion

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Procrastination is a disease that eat us deeply, it brings our morale down, it makes us not to want to get into the daily tasks, and the best way we could avoid this is to stay ahead of it already.

I avoid procrastination by setting a time goal for my tasks, I avoid Laziness as well, and also I like to leave my comfort zone whenever I want to do something that requires a full time dedication.

I would like to invite @saintkelvin17, and @yakspeace to partake in the contest too.