The document discusses procrastination and offers various strategies to overcome it, emphasizing the importance of setting deadlines, breaking tasks into smaller pieces, and removing distractions. It provides additional tips such as utilizing the two-minute rule, rewarding progress, and using visualization techniques to enhance motivation. The author encourages readers to take action and seek help if necessary to improve productivity.

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2. What Is Procrastination And How To
Avoid It?

3. Your to-do list is ready and looks
absolutely amazing.

4. You just need to complete the listed tasks
and you’ll be definitely fine.
Feels exciting…

5. Oops…
Until it is actually time to
start carrying out those
tasks.

6. Okay. But when you will finally start and
take action?

7. Well, often you just start when the pigs
fly.

8. Or sometimes you start immediately and then you notice
how the efficiency decreases, you get systematically
distracted and motivation fades away.

9. This unproductive state of things is known to
everyone and it is often the natural outcome of
procrastination.

10. The main difference between a loser and a
winner usually lies in a person’s daily habits.

11. People nowadays fail to get a job well done in
real time or end up with a poor outcome
because they just can’t help themselves from
procrastinating.

12. Procrastination is a perfect way for us to get
stuck up and yet, many of us keep being totally
unaware of this phenomenon controlling and
harming our lives.

13. Unknowingly, we always easily create or find
persuasive arguments right in our minds to
delay the tasks that are at hand.

14. And the worst part is that often times this feels
to us pretty natural.

15. Procrastination is in fact normal and all of us
instead of working just fool around from time
to time. However…

16. You must decidedly avoid it if you want to
be productive.

17. Don’t ever let procrastination take over
your whole life.

18. Here are some strategies and tips to get
rid of annoying procrastination.

19. #1 Include deadlines to your to-do list

20. Write down all your goals and then give
yourself a specific deadline.

21. Yeah, this is the same old to-do list, but with
serious deadlines. And they make difference.

22. In this way, you will be focused and well
reminded that there will be no other time for
you to do a thing but now.

23. A goal without a specific deadline can be just
put off carelessly.

24. #2 Make things smaller

25. Break your goals into small pieces. Big goals can
make you feel overwhelmed with it and may make
you think that it is unachievable.

26. As soon as you do it the big “unachievable” goal
may end up with turning into a piece of cake for
you.

27. And then the steps will just become obnoxious to
you as you move forward.

28. #3 Remove distractions

29. Identify what distracts you the most (checking social
media updates, email, cell phone etc.) and get rid
of them until you are done.

30. You may even temporarily deactivate your Facebook
account

31. No worries to reactivate you will simply need to log in 

32. Alternatively, you may think of using a relevant
software to block your online distractions. There are
plenty of them on the web like FocusMe, Cold
Turkey or Freedom.

33. You may also consider putting your phone to an
airplane mode.

34. Trying to stay focused on important things you need
to have done is a sufficient excuse to be
inaccessible for a while.

35. #4 Two (five) minute rule

36. Sometimes we have small yet very important or
even crucial tasks that we postpone.

37. Two-minute rule by David Allen suggests to
immediately do your work or task that will take no
longer than two minutes.

38. This rule is applicable when you need to reply to an
important email for instance but feel like not willing to do
it right now although it will take two minutes at best.

39. According to two-minute rule, you just reply to that email
immediately and do not let yourself to even start thinking
of delaying.

40. You automatically do whatever takes less than two minutes
and become incredibly productive with this small shift in
your attitude.

41. As an addition to David Allen’s rule, we recommend
changing two-minute rule into the five-minute rule in
order to cover a wider range of tasks.

42. If you never postpone whatever takes you just five minutes
to do, you’ll heavily increase your productivity.

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44. #5 Reward progress

45. Honoring yourself for a well-done job and small
achievements will keep you motivated to be the best
version of yourself.

46. If you are motivated in whatever you do, it is almost
guaranteed that procrastination will never set in.

47. #6 Try Negative Reinforcement

48. This is an another effective way to fight procrastination.

49. In order to get extra motivation you may consider taking
away something bad (or something you really do not want
to do) as a motivator.

50. For example, you may let yourself skip cooking and have
flakes instead if you finish the work in time or whatever
you absolutely do not want to do.

51. Does not sound that exciting, but still may work.
Give it a try!

52. #7 Penalty Method

53. When negative reinforcement does not work well for you
then you may try penalty method to fight the
procrastination.

54. It’s quite simple - you just punish yourself if you do not get
things done on time and let say do not go out that day or
run an extra mile at the evening jogging.

55. Try to set positive penalties such as doing some extra sport
or eating healthy food.

56. This way the penalty method will benefit you in any case:
you’ll either finish the task in time or do something useful.

57. #8 Leverage the Power of Visualization

58. Visualization is a great universal power, so you can make
use of it in many cases including but not limited to
procrastination.

59. Imagining your future success will pump you up and give
you the drive.

60. While visualizing try to feel that amazing excitement of
victory. This is what you are going to feel when you’ll
achieve all your tasks and become amazing.

61. Make feelings STRONGER, colors BRIGHTER and voice of
success LOUDER!

62. You want to feel that in real life, right?

63. Damn, YEAH!

64. So, do it.

65. #9 Get out of Your Comfort Zone

66. Feeling good in you comfort zone and not
willing to leave it is another cause of
procrastination.

67. In a modern world, you have to leave your
comfort zone if you decided to be successful.

68. So, break out of your comfort zone now!

69. Our comfort zone limits us and fear or
reluctance to run out of it can keep us from
taking action.

70. If you want to be successful, the sooner or
later you must get out of your comfort zone
and apparently the sooner is better.

71. #10 Compete

72. Fair competition has always led to progress. If
you have someone to compete with you’ll be
kept naturally motivated.

73. Moreover, if you agree to compete on
something with your friend or colleague this
regardless of the outcome will eventually
benefit you both.

74. Competition is a strong motive force and it
often feels just like a game where you do not
feel like working while trying to win.

75. It's very fun and highly effective way to forget
about procrastination.

76. #11 Track your progress

77. You need to track your progress in order to see
if your efforts increase your productivity.

78. Tracking makes the whole process transparent
and precise. You see what you’ve done and
what actually remained undone.

79. Remember, failing to track the progress is
another shape of procrastination

80. Unless you have the clear picture of things
you may falsely consider them to be fine.

81. #12 Ask for help

82. If you implement strategies above (at least
some of them) you’ll be able to avoid
procrastination and increase your productivity.

83. As there is no magic bullet for it, you’ll need to
do at least something to get rid of this bad
habit.

84. In case, you lose your focus and are not able
to continuously follow the strategies ask for
help!

85. Tell to someone you trust to help you with
avoiding the procrastination.

86. It is much easier to follow strategies when you
have some sort of accountability.

87. This way you’ll be forced to deliver the results
and who knows maybe this will reveal your
momentous hidden talents!

88. Listed strategies if followed will definitely help
you to fight procrastination.

89. So…

90. Take Action Now!

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