7 Unusual methods of struggle with procrastination

1. Letters himself

The modern e-mail is one handy feature - delayed sending. With its help, we can write yourself motivational letter and send them straight to the future.

How it works? Let's imagine that we have covered the next wave of procrastination. And instead of having to deal with the case, we stared at the picture in the public servers, or watch on YouTube, like porcupine-talker eat pumpkin. At this point, we get the following letter:

These messages act like a cold shower: we immediately close the roll with a porcupine and grabs for his work. These letters do not just motivate: they help to remember and return to the state in which we were determined to exploits.

To messages from the past are not lost magical powers, it is important not to create them using the same template, but each time to write in a new way. Tell myself tomorrow about plans for this day, their dreams and hopes, give advice and warns of trouble. At the same time, try not so much to be ashamed of themselves, how to inspire.

2. work overlap

Once you have coped with the task, do not rush immediately to arrange a break. Before you go on holiday, start a new business. If you plan to do away with the dirty dishes, then put it in the sink and open water. If you going to write - Start a text editor and write the first sentence.

When the work started, it is difficult to forget about it and be distracted by extraneous classes. Especially if we have done something that can not be ignored. Agree, it is difficult with a head dive into the social network, if the middle of the room stands a vacuum cleaner and looks at us with a silent reproach.

3. control breaks

Coffee breaks, cigarette breaks, and the party in the "Solitaire" are often the very same black hole where fail all the plans for the day. To avoid this, it is necessary to strictly control the duration of the break. And here we come to the aid of two instruments:

• Timer. With him, everything is simple: set the time allowed to rest, and then hated the signal back to work.
• Check list. Breaks can be planned in the same way as the rest of the case. For example:

During leisure, it is important to maintain a working attitude and avoid too bright impressions. If our attention grabbing something extraneous, then return to the main lesson is already complicated. This is especially frustrating if the work requires concentration.

4. reports

Try several times a day to write reports on the work done on the problems encountered and what you plan to do next. For example:

Such a "bureaucracy" helps to maintain awareness, not to lose motivation and less distracted.

How often do you need to write such reports? It depends on your working rhythm and feeling. Someone sufficiently accountable to a three times a day, someone needs to control himself every 15 minutes. Incidentally, this technique is combined with Pomodoro technique.

5. continuous chain

continuous chain method (Do not Break The Chain) usually serves to secure good habits. But he turned out to be perfectly suited for the control of working time. It looks like this:

Everything is simple. They worked for half an hour or an hour? Draw in the plate beautiful red cross.

Firstly, it will immediately see the results of their work. And secondly, it will be a pity to be distracted from work and to break such a wonderful chain.

But in this method, there is one caveat. Suppose that we for some reason, still broke a series of crosses. At this point, we have a temptation to say, "burned the barn - and burn the hut!" - and go to YouTube to watch seals. To prevent self-sabotage, you can simply draw at the break sad face:

Although the chain and incorrect, it still looks complete and does not cause a strong desire to drop everything.

Do not forget to reserve in plate for lunch and rest.

6. klipovoy planning

Sometimes a day is necessary to perform several major problems, but such that the mere thought of these "elephants" became ill. In this case, try to divide the task into small pieces and carry them around.

Suppose that today we need to be sure to wash the windows in the apartment, prepare a report and perform their daily tasks. Schedule:

Such a plan has just three advantages:

1. Due to the fact that things are replaced quickly, as the scenes in the video, they have no time to make us disgusted.
2. Due to the alternation of different activities we get tired less and last longer keep a clear head.
3. At the end of the day we have no choice of projects to which never reached his hands.

It is important to find the right balance and the right to distribute tasks "slices" should be neither too large nor too small. In my experience, they are the optimal duration - about half an hour.

7. look at the ball

This is the most powerful and at the same time the most difficult technique, it must be experienced. The idea is this: you have to do the work of ultrashort lengths from 3 to 10 seconds, concentrating on how to proceed to the next step.

If, for example, we got a run, we must strive to complete one segment distance and start a new one. And if we now my plate, then try to get to the next plate.

If you ever played tennis, try to remember your sensations. During the game, we almost did not think about the result, not about the opponent, or about upcoming sets. We just react to the movement of the ball, trying to hit him on the right.

Admission helps to work stress-free and easy to enter into a state of flux. In this case, procrastination is powerless over us because we ourselves hard to break away from work.

To learn how to "watch the ball", will have to experiment a bit. But as soon as you catch a wave, the work begins to be argued by itself.

conclusion

For the implementation of these techniques can and should be creative. For example, the letter itself may be more atmospheric, if you write them down on paper and send in this envelope. And to create a continuous chain is often more convenient to use not the leaf, and a spreadsheet. Customize techniques for yourself and do not be afraid to experiment.

Successful you struggle with procrastination!