Delaying tasks until tomorrow affects us all. Commonly called procrastination. How can you overcome procrastination when you lack motivation? This article addresses this question.
We'll discuss procrastination's causes and provide simple strategies to tackle it.
Reserving today's tasks for tomorrow is procrastination. It can get frustrating soon. Because you must work or finish a personal or administrative obligation. You lack motivation, are perfectionist, or fear failure.
Procrastination is mentally demanding. Considering the many open boxes on your sticky note. It bitterly reminds us of our legendary laziness.
Yes, you think about it continually until you finish. Gets you stressed. It prevents present enjoyment. You constantly have this small voice that says, “No, not right away” even if you're intellectually prepared to start this action.
Your second emotion is guilt. Or because you were lazy and delayed it. Or because you don't have time to finish correctly.
You're stuck after repeatedly delaying the deadline. After the deadline, you haven't done what you planned. Does procrastination have no cure? How to beat procrastination? Or even no longer feel it? Simply start!
Pathological procrastinators have extreme and chronic procrastination that can affect their personal and professional lives. ADHD, depression, and anxiety are often linked to it.
Pathological procrastinators struggle to focus, manage time, and meet deadlines, which causes serious issues at work and school. They may also struggle with planning and prioritising and feel anxious and stressed due to procrastination.
Time management following a choice is key to overcoming procrastination.
Stop procrastinating and become more efficient by learning these concepts.
Eating, sleeping, and washing are mandatory. You rarely have this survival time constraint. This time is lost.
Naturally, you can eat faster or sleep less. The time is mandatory.
This time is tied to finances. It's time spent making money or hoping to make money.
Time spent alone rarely yields results. You get various benefits from it. Spend time with friends doing things like:
Attend concerts or listen to music.
Personal time usually improves social skills.
These personal moments satisfy and improve you.
Non-time is time spent on unnecessary tasks. More specifically, any second, minute, or hour spent doing non-productive (or self-destructive) activities is non-time.
Example: smoking is non-time. Cigarettes compel you to stop.
Can social media use also be non-time? Not that easy. It depends on the intent.
Non-time: Scrolling your favourite social network every 30 minutes without a goal.
As a Community Manager, spend an hour responding to subscribers' comments on social media.
Personal Time: Spend more than an hour on your favourite social network to divert yourself or watch a mentor's live broadcast.
To understand non-time, we must remember that times cannot intersect. When they cross, we create an irretrievable non-time bubble.