How to get better at time management? How to get better quality of life? How to improve?

1. Procrastination Demystified

2. Where does procrastination stem from?
• Upbringing and Family value system
• Childhood habits
• Our beliefs and values

3. Value system when we grew up
• Males forgetting family chores because of:
– Their problems at work
– External environment
– Unimportance given to the task
• This sowed the seeds of procrastination
– The virus caught us young

4. Childhood habits
• Unfinished homework
• Holiday homework for summer vacations
– Always took a hit and was completed on last 3 / 4
days by most of us
– Taking pride in finishing homework in short span
of time
– Exams
• Last day preparation

5. Self developed Value system
• Postpone things till last minute
• Last minute adrenaline rush and high focus on
task at hand
• Get mixed results depending upon ability to
focus and work under pressure
• Become content with results and believe this
is the best we could do

6. • Baby Boomers
– Were always punctual
– Inculcated strong values and belief system in gen X
• Gen X
– Worked really hard to overcome tough times and
did great to improve fortunes for their families
– Were punctual at work but defaulted on small
tasks at home
Flashback

7. Analysis
• Gen Y
– Grew up good amount of resources
– Developed excellent skill set and contributing to
world economy
– Variable amount of focus and ability to handle
pressure
– Get mixed results as a result of procrastination
and not planning things out

8. This is what may happen at the last
moment

9. Or this

10. What to do?
• Setting tight internal deadlines for yourself
• No more procrastination
• Focus on achieving all these deadlines /
schedules
• Work on your efficiency frontier at all times
rather than only for deadlines
• Strive for 100 % results

11. Your planner may look something like
this

12. Benefits
• Better results than earlier
• No stress
• No anxiety
• Improved quality of life
– For us
– For our loved ones