Procrastination murders! I’m not referring to physical death, which is surely a possibility if you put off going to your doctor for an annual examination. I’m talking about murdering your soul! What does this mean? Putting things off day after day, month after month, year after year, causes that you more or less don’t really live; you only exist. Not too exciting, no?
Okay, so what can you do to stop your procrastination. Well first let’s figure out what causes it.
Cause #1. Fear of both failure and success. Don’t laugh; to move away from your “middle class” neighborhood to the fancy part of town causes uneasiness. We feel more comfortable with a difficult “known” than a better “unknown”.
Cause #2. Time management. We think something will take sooo much time that we keep on putting it off until we have a long enough block of time to do it. In reality it takes only a fraction of the time that we think.
Cause #3. Trying to be perfect. Perfectionists see every project so complicated that not only do they fear failure; failure is almost certain! They know that it takes days and days (or weeks and weeks) to achieve their level of perfection, so they never even start.
What To Do To Stop Procrastination
Firstly identify what is causing YOUR procrastination:
If it’s:
The Fear Aspect: If you procrastinate because you fear failure then you have to train your mind to think about what will it be like AFTER you finish. By focusing on the outcome instead of the process you won’t worry so much.
If you fear success then you have to sit down and think of the plusses of reaching your goals versus the minuses of staying where you are.
Time Management: The simplest way to tackle this is to make a schedule for yourself. Estimate how long you are willing to work on a certain project and after you have worked on the project that amount of time... move on to something else. Tomorrow or next weekend get back to the first project.
Perfectionism: To change this trait is the hardest of all. You have to constantly tell yourself that almost good is also good. Take Microsoft as an example. How many .1 and .2 versions of Windows went on the market. If he was a crazy perfectionist Windows would have never made it to the market place and to your computer.
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