This document discusses ways to prevent and overcome procrastination. It identifies different types of procrastination personalities including self-doubt, discomfort, guilt, and habit. Common causes of procrastination at work are difficult or unpleasant tasks, small tasks, huge tasks, low priority tasks, and the desire to avoid running out of work or to wait for more urgent deadlines. The costs of procrastination include poor quality work, time pressure, failure to achieve goals, missed opportunities, and wasting the present. Suggested ways to prevent procrastination involve scheduling time, creating hard deadlines, switching environments, rewarding accomplishments, eliminating distractions, and not waiting for perfection.

1. Prevent Procrastination

2. If you continue doing
exactly what your
doing right now,
where would you be
in five years?

3. The secret is simple.
Nothing happens
without hard work.
The lazy don’t
succeed.

4. Have you ever come up with below
situations
• I will do it tomorrow. I’ll start next week, next month,
next year
• When I have more time I’ll do it.
• Have you ever spent more time worrying about a task
than it took to do the task?

6. Procrastination personalities
 These people feel there
are rigid standards about
how thing ought to be done
and they fear they will fail
• Self-Doubt

7. Procrastination personalities
 This person avoids activities
that will cause them distress,
discomfort or anxiety, so
tensions mount because of this
avoidance
• Discomfort

8. Procrastination personalities
 The person feels guilt
over tasks undone, but
rather than correct the
original lack of action
continues to procrastinate
in order to not face up to
the guilt feelings
• Guilt - Driven

9. Procrastination personalities
 The person has
procrastinated so many
times, it becomes an
ingrained response.
The person no longer
thinks about why they do
it, they feel it's just a part
of themselves
• Habitual

11. Procrastination at work
• Difficult or unpleasant
 The task is difficult or unpleasant so you either don’t
want to do or don’t know how to do it

12. • Small task
Procrastination at work
The task is a small one, it won’t take long and can wait until later.

13. • Huge task
Procrastination at work
The task is huge, it’s difficult to know where to begin

14. • Low Priority
Procrastination at work
The task is low priority, you will do it at last moment

15. • Delay the task
Procrastination at work
If you delay the task, it might not need doing at all

16. • Run out of work
Procrastination at work
You don’t want to run out of work; you might look expendable

17. • More urgent
Procrastination at work
You do your best work under pressure so let’s wait for the task
to become a more urgent matter

19. Costs associated with procrastination
• Poor quality work
 Procrastinating on
important tasks means that
you have less time in which
to complete them, which
invariably leads to rushed
poor quality work

20. Costs associated with procrastination
• Time Pressure
 Leaving things until the last
minute results in anxiety and
time pressure as you go all
out to complete tasks before
the deadline

21. Costs associated with procrastination
• Failure to achieve important goals
 This can be one of the most
depressing and frustrating
aspects of procrastination

22. Costs associated with procrastination
• Missed opportunities
 Procrastination causes you
to miss wonderful
opportunities that you never
even consider or explore.
 This can lead to guilt and
regret as you realize what
you are missing

23. Costs associated with procrastination
• Waste of the present
 Wasting the present is
probably the biggest cost of
procrastination.

24. Is procrastination a disease?

25. Is procrastination a disease?
• Physiological
 Roots of procrastination mostly surrounds the role of
the prefrontal cortex

26. Is procrastination a disease?
• Physiological
 Prefrontal cortex area of the brain is responsible for executive
brain functions such as planning, impulse control, attention, and
acts as a filter by decreasing distracting energy from other brain
regions
 Damage or low activation in this area can reduce an
individual's ability to filter out distracting energy, ultimately
resulting in poorer organization, a loss of attention and
increased procrastination

27. Procrastination Survey
• At least 95% of us procrastinate at least occasionally and
about 15-20% of us do it consistently and problematically.

28. Procrastination Survey

29. Ways To Prevent Procrastination
• Physical
 Exercise
 Food

30. Ways To Prevent Procrastination
• Schedule your time in smaller increments
 If your time frame is too far
off in the future, deadlines
becomes generalities.
There is a difference between saying, 'I'll write one chapter a week'
and saying, 'I'll write four chapters a month'

31. Ways To Prevent Procrastination
• Create hard-and-fast deadlines
 Instead of thinking you will
work on your project for three
hours every morning,
determine when you want
certain tasks completed
If the boss hands you an assignment, she/he doesn't say, 'Work on
this each day', she/he says, 'Have this on my desk by next Friday'

32. • Map out all of your deadlines on one calendar
 That way, you'll see that
your tasks are all interrelated.
If your task today affects your
task tomorrow, you will
experience an "urgency to act"
Ways To Prevent Procrastination

33. • Switch up your environment
 If your working environment
makes you want to snuggle up
and take a nap, change it
immediately.
Ways To Prevent Procrastination

34. • Hang out with other people who don't procrastinate
 Hang out with people who
inspire you. They'll infuse
some of their drive and spirit
into your work ethic.
Ways To Prevent Procrastination

35. • People who are already living your dream
 Connect with people who
have already achieved your
dream and seek advice on how
they accomplished it.
Ways To Prevent Procrastination

36. • Announce your goals to others
 If your friends and
colleagues know about your
projects, they are bound to ask
you about them on a regular
basis - serving as an
accountable reminder.
Ways To Prevent Procrastination

37. • Eliminate distractions
 Eliminate the distractions
that forcing you to
procrastinate.
Ways To Prevent Procrastination
 For example, if Facebook is
causing you to procrastinate,
deactivate it for a short period
of time. If email is the
problem, turn off your
automatic notifications.

38. • Force yourself to keep going
 When you feel your interest
become weaker, put one foot
in front of the other.
Ways To Prevent Procrastination

39. • Reward yourself
Ways To Prevent Procrastination
 If you spend too much time
on something, you may start to
resent it.
Realize that hard work should
be rewarded with a nice meal
at your favorite restaurant or a
trip to the movies.

40. • When your plan is failing, RE-PLAN
 Some goals weren't meant
to be achieved then take a
step back and decide what it is
exactly that you want to
achieve and what steps you
should take to get there
Ways To Prevent Procrastination

41. • Stop waiting for the perfect time
Ways To Prevent Procrastination

42. • Keep in mind that your work space affects your
productivity ...
Ways To Prevent Procrastination

43. • Perfectionism
Ways To Prevent Procrastination
 Don’t be perfectionism,
give you self dead lines, it is
better to have some thing up
there 80% then have
nothing up there