Procrastination is productivity’s worst enemy. Waiting until the last minute can lead to subpar work, especially if the assignment is more intense than you anticipated. Here’s how to overcome procrastination and become more productive.
Nearly everyone puts off tasks from time to time, but chronic procrastination can be seriously detrimental to your work performance. Sure, you know procrastination is bad—but how do you move past it? If you’re looking for ways to become more focused and productive at work, try adapting to the following life-pointers!
Simple Steps Towards Production
Do the hardest thing first every day. No excuses. Spoiler alert: “hard” is rarely about technical difficulty. It’s what you are avoiding—conflict, reflection, writing, or having a difficult conversation.
Once you’ve tackled it, the rest of the day feels like a gift. Really! The results become so addictive that procrastinators become volunteer advocates for excitement. Aligning attention and action with values helps too.
n a world with so many digital distractions, many find that social media and other communication vehicles disrupt the work environment.
The first step to ensuring you don’t get side-tracked is to turn off all those electronics and, more importantly, schedule your work. Forecast how much time it will take you to execute each goal and/or project and book that time into your calendar.
Procrastination dogs all of us sometimes. The strategy that works in most cases, is to schedule everything we mean to do and then surrender fully to our calendars.
Look for someone like you, set sometime during the week, and keep each other accountable for work done.
If you’re a chronic procrastinator, you’ve got a lot of “yes, buts” going on. Chronic procrastination is about contradictory thoughts to a desire. Focus and productivity naturally come by choosing thoughts aligned with your intentions and desired outcomes. It’s similar to getting in your car and wanting to go somewhere. To go there, you drive in that direction—you don’t go someplace else. The strategy that works in most cases, is to schedule everything we mean to do and then surrender fully to our calendars. Please ponder.
Then preach!