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Kick The Habit Of Procrastination
Procrastination in its chronic form is a barrier that prevents us from achieving happiness, health and success. Regular procrastinators skip their exercise routines, and also have high levels of anxiety, leading to various mental and physical ailments.
New research tries to target the root cause of procrastination, looking at it from a psychological angle.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a proven tool to resolve the psychological problem of procrastination, but it is time-consuming and not very scalable.
A quicker way is to ask these four questions to oneself:
- How would a highly successful person complete this task?
Using a variation of the Temporal Motivation Theory, procrastination is divided into four causes, which are interlinked:
- Expectancy: Our underestimation of our chances of succeeding, reducing our overall motivation.
- Sensitivity to Delay:
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According to traditional thinking, procrastinators have a time-management problem. They are unable to understand how long a task will take and need to learn how to schedule their time better.
However, psychologists increasingly realize that procrastination is an issue with managing our e...
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Show your willingness to get things done. Making a promise to yourself is a good way to hold yourself accountable. This can be achieved by jotting down your goals, having a to-do list handy, and setting reminders on the phone and in the calendar.
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5 strategies for overcoming procrastination that successful individuals employ.
Procrastination is more about our emotions than our tendencies for laziness or just being “bad at deadlines”. At its core, we procrastinate to keep ourselves happy in the moment.
We procrastinate because our brains are wired to care more about our present comfort than our fut...
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