Five
Quick Tips To Stop Procrastination (Dragging Your Feet) At Work And Personal
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- List the things that you are procrastinating. Each time you think that you will do something in the afternoon, evening,tomorrow, next week, next month or next year, put it down to your list. Do not procrastinate making this list! Start making this list as soon as you finish reading this post or else you will never do it. We are talking about things that depend only on you because there are certain tasks that involve other stakeholders such as approvals from superiors, money, etc. For such tasks whatever needs to be done at your end should be covered so that when everything else is in place you know that you are not the one that is holding back.
- Estimate the time required for each task in your list. Be sure to be realistic with your time estimation.
- Prioritize those tasks in terms of importance, deadline and estimated time.
- Identify the reasons for not doing it immediately including the fear of the outcome. Check whether you have a valid reason for not doing it immediately. In most cases, when you take time to go through this exercise and find out that you really don’t have a reason to postpone it you are likely to implement it immediately.
- Set a deadline for each task in your procrastination list and for every new task that you need to accomplish at work and in your personal life. Again, in most cases tasks never get accomplished because you do not set a deadline for the task to be completed. Open ended tasks never get completed.
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