- Procrastination is the subconscious fear of failure.
- If you put off a task long enough, then you don't have to face up to the potential negative results.
- Don't stick to getting minor things 'just right', it causes delay in continuing the task.
Psychology Of Procrastination And Tips to Tackle Them.
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- Procrastination is the subconscious fear of failure.
- If you put off a task long enough, then you don't have to face up to the potential negative results.
- Don't stick to getting minor things 'just right', it causes delay in continuing the task.
- Try visualizing the completion of your task in the positive way.
- Understand perfection is a myth.
- Put in your best effort and realize that's all you can do.
- Person who is highly creative and has many brilliant ideas but can't put them to action.
- This happens as there is no goal setting involved after the idea has been created.
- Aimless approach manifests lack of decision making and delays.
- Once you have an idea, write down a timeline of what you want to achieve and by when.
- Do this daily to keep yourself on track and accountable.
- A task might be overwhelming to do, which causes you to procrastinate.
- Complexity of a task causes the brain to lose motivation and avoids doing it altogether.
How To Tackle:
- Break the challenge down into smaller tasks and Tackle individually.
- You may have too many tasks and you miss to acknowledge differing importance of each task.
- Time is wasted on switching from one task to other or spending too much time deciding what to do.
- Even while multitasking, things gets mixed.
- It's all about priorities. Choose important tasks over urgent ones.
- Make sure to question the value and purpose of each task and make a list in order of importance.
- Distraction is another cause for procrastination.
- Our brains aren't wired to focus for long periods of time and it looks for something else.
- Be mindful of your workspace and potential distractions.
- Work for 20-30 minutes at a time and then take a 5 minute break.
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