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Create a Procrastination List
When you don’t feel like tackling the hard tasks on your to-do list, ensure that your “procrastination” activity moves you forward. You are unlikely to tackle complex tasks, so make a “procrastination” list with tasks that are different enough from the items on your actual to-do lists, and are relatively quick and painless to do.
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Drop Or Automate Tasks
If procrastination makes your list have too many items, find out what you can eliminate. For necessary but time-consuming tasks that don’t bring a lot of returns, consider adopting solutions that will do it for you.
Automating tasks you would otherwise be doing manually...
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Break Tasks Down
Sometimes it seems daunting to start a project because of its scale, which is why it’s important to break tasks down into small chunks.
Subdividing tasks allows you to keep progressing by switching tasks when you get stuck but have deadlines to meet or taking a break isn’t an option...
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Only Plan For One Item a Day
One way of tackling procrastination is to focus on one thing, and then to give yourself permission to do whatever you want for the rest of the day. Select an important task you’ve been long avoiding, and take one day just for it.
After finishing the chosen task, you are likely to ...
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Common Reasons For Procrastination
- Fears of not doing a specific task well enough.
- Unpleasant feelings associated with a specific task.
- Thinking working under pressure makes for more efficient working.
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Make Project-Specific To-Do Lists
Daily to-do lists can demoralize us, as we tend to keep pushing to the next day what we can’t finish in time, which makes the list grow and seem overwhelming.
Project-specific to-do lists consist of project-specific lists of all the actions you need to take to complete the project. They ...
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Basic Steps For Using a To-Do List
- Add tasks as they appear to the appropriate list, assigning a due date if possible.
- Before the day ends, check your lists for the tasks you want to do the next day. You can add a due date for it.
- Review the lists at the end of the day to have a clear idea...
How to Use a Weekly/Daily To-Do List
- Focus on the Daily List: Once you've decided what chunk of your weekly list to handle, you may put the other tasks out of your mind.
- Don't Expand the Lists: If you finish your daily or weekly list earlier than expected, don't add a more as this wil...
Make a To-Do-List
- Make a to-do list for every day: One of the best time management tools you can develop.
- Make your to-do lists a habit: When something new comes up, add it to the list.
- Check off your completed tasks: This activity gives you a sense of accomplishment and g...
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