Procrastination: 7 Simple Tips

How often have you before delivery of an important project, exam, talk with parents or trip to the dentist (When a tooth hurts already) find a host of other, more simple lessons, absolutely not related to the main business? And each list of such cases and the situation is very different and can contain quite a lot of points. And even if you are on the list only one item, it still prevents to live normally. What to do? To deal with this unpleasant phenomenon.

Let's start with the definition of the term "procrastination"- a concept in psychology, indicating the permanent postponement for later unpleasant thoughts and deeds.

As I said, a list of such acts and thoughts is unique and can be very impressive. There are a few tips that will help to fight procrastination and does not require any complicated operations. The main thing is not to delay work on yourself "for later".

1. Make you one unpleasant thing in the morning. Of course, not immediately after waking up. And when it's time to do things, even if the first item in your «ToDoList» will be at least one small trouble you cause. For example, call a plumber or a call is not very pleasant to the client. It's like jumping from the tower is not just thinking about it. Or approach a hundred times to the edge, to estimate the height of waste collected from the spirit and... again to stop just before the jump. And so as long as you do not face the one who has already exhausted the patience to stand in line to jump. A good rule - first of all at least a little unpleasant business, and your list has one item shorter.

2. If you find it hard to do any kind of work several times a week, do it every day. As strange as it may sound, but it usually works. For example, you need to write in a blog article or fill cards for the program. Of course, you can sit down and write for a few days right amount. But, first, do not always have at hand the necessary material, and secondly, the second time to sit down and force myself to write It will be very difficult in a few days (taking into account the fact that you do not like it, but do you still need). If you start to work on it a little each day, then gradually drawn. And to sit it will not be so hard for this work. Gradually, it will have a habit, and later may even like it.

3. Find a company for its "unpleasant business". Studies show that many of the things we do are much more likely for the company with someone than alone.

4. Make preparations for the work of their indispensable tool. That is, the collection of the necessary tools empowers you to mentally prepare for the bad things. For example, printing out any email, or gather the necessary information before the conversation with the client. You do not have to do it today, you can postpone it. But it is possible that simply preparing in advance, you decide to quickly finish with this matter and will do everything in the same day.

5. Keep a list. This advice can be found quite often in dealing with non-compliance cases (to put it simply, the ubiquitous laziness). And it works. Usually lists up to doing something long-term, but also a one-day work. Just write on the paper by the end of the day I have to do so-and-so.

6. First - the most unpleasant (ladies and children - in advance). Make sure that you first perform one of the major unpleasant cases, rather than the implementation of the "little trouble" trying to delay the execution of an unpleasant (and this happens).

7. Learn to enjoy the completion of your unpleasant affairs. He forced himself to do what was delayed for a month - Rejoice! At least for the fact that you are at a good fellow and finally we found the strength to complete a very unpleasant thing. Even if you have been a little sick in the process of implementation and in the end it left an unpleasant aftertaste. You did it. You are well done!

And now I would like to ask that you begin to do to avoid the performance of unpleasant things? Personally, I start going through the items, or search for that I have to do this, "there seems to be-necessary", often not associated with "my dragon".