Procrastination is when you avoid doing tasks that need to be accomplished and instead, you do a less important task that you enjoy doing.
As a result, the total time to finish what is needed to be done gets shorter and you end up doing everything to the last minute before the deadline. In the following article by Jose Luis Parra Villamil, he further explains what procrastination is and how it becomes a problem for most people, especially to a freelancer like me: PROCRASTINATION Procrastination is the greatest problem of time management. Procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks first, instead of doing the most important tasks first. This leads you to do everything to the last minute. Procrastination makes the person dilate the tasks, many time because they feel they have plenty of time to do the task, but they let the time pass and still think the same of the beginning. This leads at the end to stockpile many tasks, making the person get stressed because of the lack of time. The principle of procrastination is pleasure because it is the action of trying to avoid negative, stressful, or boring things, while instead, the person do stuff that he/she likes. Many people use an excuse for using procrastination, saying that they work better under pressure, but it is really not justified, because the person could equally work well when having plenty of time. Everyone procrastinates at some point, it is a very common action. However, 20% of the people chronically avoid difficult tasks and look for distractions. See the rest of the article here.
In the next post by Robin Sharma, he explains in details why procrastination is considered to be the enemy of success. He also shares some of the tools that he is using to effectively increase his motivation and strengthen his will power:
5 Tools To Conquer Procrastination & Strengthen Your Willpower By Robin Sharma To inspire you to continue working on achieving your dreams, here’s one more motivational quote from the video:
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We all procrastinate from time to time. Even the most successful people have procrastinated before they have reached their glorious moments. But one of the huge factors that divide most successful people to not so successful people is their will power to get things done in order to get to where they are now.
All of us are looking for ways to effectively defeat procrastination and quickly turn our great ideas into reality. In the next article by Leah Fessler, she explains how a simple yet effective trick such as the five minute rule can play a major role in getting even the long and exhausting tasks done: The five-minute trick that helps Instagram’s CEO crush procrastination Kevin Systrom may be CEO and co-founder of Instagram—but he’s still susceptible to procrastination. And so the 33-year-old billionaire has come up with a simple trick to tackle the tasks he tends to put off. “If you don’t want to do something, make a deal with yourself to do at least five minutes of it. After five minutes, you’ll end up doing the whole thing,” he recently told Axios when asked about his favorite life hack. Ultimately, Systrom’s five-minute hack, much like the Tomato Timer, revolves around the question of how to give ourselves control over our work. After five minutes of intense work, a massive project may still be massive—but having overcome the initial obstacle of getting started, it will no longer seem impossible. Read the rest of the article here.
Now that you have learned some of the most effective ways to overcome procrastination, it may not be that bad if you relax for a while and check out the following article by Giedrė about some funny procrastination memes and I’m sure that some of you will smile because you can relate to these memes:
10+ Hilarious Posts About Procrastination You Probably Shouldn’t Be Reading Right Now As you can see from this hilarious list of posts compiled by Bored Panda, procrastination is, for most of us mere mortals, an unfortunate yet inevitable part of our existence. Still, although it doesn't help us to get anything done, it does at least give us something to laugh about.
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So there you have it folks!
Procrastination is in our very nature and it’s very difficult to resist but with the right motivation, a strong will power and by following the tips of experts, we can surely get more and more things done thus increasing our chances of achieving goals and reaping success in life. Image Credits
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