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Stop Procrastinating
As with most habits, it is possible to overcome procrastination. However, we may also be failing to overcome it, if we just:
- Fill our day with low-priority tasks.
- Leave an item on our To-Do list for a long time, even though it's important.
- Read emails several times over without making a decision on what to do with them.
- Start a high-priority task and then go off to make a coffee.
- Fill our time with unimportant tasks that other people ask us to do, instead of getting on with the important tasks already on our list.
- Wait to be in "right mood," or wait for the "right time" to tackle a task.
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Remove The Hidden Blockage
Sometimes we find ourselves returning to a task repeatedly, still unwilling to take the first step. We hear a little voice in our head saying, “Yeah, good idea, but . . . no.” At this point, we need to ask that voice some questions, to figure out what’s really ma...
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Procrastination Didn't Cause By Laziness
Procrastination is often confused with laziness, but they are very different.
Procrastination is an active process – we choose to do something else instead of the task that we know we should be doing. In con...
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Adopt Anti-Procrastination Strategies
Procrastination is a habit – a deeply ingrained pattern of behavior. This means that we probably can't break it overnight. Habits only stop being habits when we avoid practicing them, so try as many of the strategies, below, as p...
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Start With Baby Steps
When we’re not motivated to reach our goal, it’s hard even getting started. So even the first small step towards it will seem like an achievement. For instance, if we have some reading to do for our paper, spend ten minut...
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Important; Time Ourselves
Setting a timer (after putting our phone on the airplane mode) can be a simple way of defining an intent for ourselves. We’ll find it easier to focus on.
Breaking up the time we spend on the task into bite-sized pieces will...
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Use Quadrant Time Management System
For more effective, we can divide up our day into four categories of activities based on a scale of urgency versus importance.
Q 1: Import & Urgent ~ Short-term crises and problems
Q 2: Import but Not Urgent ~ Long-term strategic goals
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The Goal?
Spend as much time in quadrant 2, the long-term goal-related quadrant, as we possibly can. If we find that ourself procrastinating, pick two tasks that we can do at the start of our day that will help progress us towards our long-term goals the m...
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The Eisenhower Matrix
The Eisenhower Matrix productivity method lets you consider the urgency and importance of each task. This method breaks tasks into four quadrants and prescribes how we should deal with tasks in each block.
- Urgent and Important tasks: should be ...
The time blocking method
When thinking about our workday, we should give every minute a job. This technique is called time blocking.
Most people generally approach their workday with a list of tasks where they fill the time between scheduled meetings and calls reacting to emails. When the mood str...
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