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5 steps to avoid procrastinate.

Procrastination can have a negative effect on individual’s productivity, efficiency and even their overall health. Individual who procrastinates experience higher levels of frustration, guilt, stress, and anxiety—in some cases leading to serious issues like low self-esteem and depression. The effects of procrastination can have an even bigger impact on persons with high ambitions. Once an individual reach a higher status and start receiving more assignments and larger projects, individual who procrastinate until the last minute tends to achieve further growth in their life than their peers.

Procrastinate can create a cycle of bad growth and low self-confidence that can be difficult for individuals to overcome. At a time when work start to impact the promotional opportunities for individual, this can lead to a lot of extra stress and frustration. Inspiring Life provides you with steps about how to avoid the procrastination and move ahead in life:

1. Make your own deadline and create Timeline

Having just 1 deadline for your work is like an invitation to procrastinate. That’s because we get the impression that we have time and keep pushing everything back, until it’s too late. Break down your project, then create an overall timeline with specific deadlines for each small task. This way, you know you have to finish each task by a certain date.

Your timelines must be robust, too – i.e. if you don’t finish this by today, it’s going to jeopardize everything else you have planned after that. This way it creates the urgency to act. My goals are broken down into monthly, weekly, right down to the daily task lists, and the list is a call to action that I must accomplish this by the specified date, else my goals will be put off.

2. Break Your Work into Little Steps.

The most important reason why we procrastinate is because subconsciously, we find that the work is too overwhelming for us. So, it is advisable that we break it down into little parts, then focus on one part at the time. If you still procrastinate on the task after breaking it down, then break it down even further. Soon, your task will be so simple that you will be thinking “gee, this is so simple that I might as well just do it now!”.

For example, I’m currently writing a new book. Book writing at its full scale is an enormous project and can be overwhelming. However, when I break it down into phases such as –

(1) Research

(2) Deciding the topic

(3) Creating the outline

(4) Drafting the content

(5) Writing Chapters #1 to #10,

(6) Revision

(7) etc.

Suddenly it seems very manageable. What I do then is to focus on the immediate phase and get it done to my best ability, without thinking about the other phases. When it’s done, I move on to the next. You can go to blog on 5 Steps to increase your productivity https://moinakduttaauthor.com/?p=195

3. Change Your Environment

Different environments have different impact on our productivity. Look at your work desk and your room. Do they make you want to work or do they make you want to snuggle and sleep? If it’s the latter, you should look into changing your workspace. One thing to note is that an environment that makes us feel inspired before may lose its effect after a period of time. If that’s the case, then it’s time to change things around.

4. Go For Getting help from others

What is it you want to accomplish here, and who are the people who have accomplished this already? Go seek them out and connect with them. Seeing living proof that your goals are very well achievable if you take action is one of the best triggers for action.

5. Take a break and hang out

If you find your onjob project too difficult and get hang up in between then you should take a break and hang out with like minded people. This will rejuvenate you and keep you away from procrastination.

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