Stop procrastination-How to complete all your work in almost half day

Stop procrastination-How to complete all your work in almost half day

As a professional, student, housewife, entrepreneur or whatever work you do, there is a list of task you need to do in a day.

Even if there is no disturbance still many times you may find yourself not able to complete your tasks because of your mind’s procrastination behavior. And make you take more than a day to complete the task which may be completed even in a half day.

So what is this procrastination and how to stop procrastination?

The meaning of procrastination is - the action of delaying or postponing something.

There are various factors for procrastination and you can avoid them to complete all of your work in a half day by not wasting time. And enjoy your rest of time.

Let's see these factors and ways for stopping procrastination.

1. Stop overwhelming yourself

You overwhelm yourself by many ways. You may assume you have to do everything at a time.

You may get distracted by thinking about all the other tasks which you have not gotten compete yet. And feel the list of task is endless.

This will lead to stop your current task and start worrying and thinking about other tasks. This will waste your most valuable time and you may not complete a task which is in your hand now. And you start procrastinating automatically.

To stop this just break all your tasks into small manageable and doable tasks and focus on each of them at their own time. Just focus on completing a part of doable task you have divided into chunks.

Imagine if you have to eat all the food of your life in a single day, how would you feel, or even if this is possible? No. you have to eat only that amount which you can eat on a day.

So just divide tasks, don't waste time by worrying about other tasks and don't get distracted. This is one simple method to stop procrastination.

2. Fight back automatic thought which says “I can’t do it”

There will always be an automatic thought before starting any task which will whisper in your mind saying “Oh I can’t do this task” or “I don't want to do this task now”. This is natural.

If the task is so simple which you can complete within a small time, then your mind may say two other automatic responses. It will either say “Let's complete this task now and get free” or “Oh this task is so easy. It can be done at any time later”.

You need to be cautious about the second response. This response will lead to waste of your time.

If the task is harder, then also mind will whisper the same thought - “Oh I can’t do this task”.

Just fight back with this thought by autosuggestion. Talkback with yourself that “I can do the task by managing it properly”. Just repeat this thought in mind and simply start working. This will save your time. To stop procrastination practice this positive thinking tip daily.

3. Make a to-do list with proper tasks arrangement

Make a to-do list for all the tasks you have to do in a day. Arrange all the tasks as per the difficulty level and assign proper priorities.

Identify the most difficult and time-consuming task and try to do it first. Make yourself free from that task.

The to-do list has a profound effect on productivity, as it makes your mind to do an arrangement in proper order. Which will wash out all the unnecessary steps your mind is thinking to complete the work.

This will make you build a good time management strategy.

4. Defeat fear of failure

Fear of failure is most common but very powerful feeling which leads you to procrastination. Because of this fear you don’t even try to start your task.

Fear of failure causes due to overgeneralization thinking. While in fear of failure you overgeneralize that if you fail in this work you may fail in each and every other work you do. This will leads you to paralyze mentally and you become unable to do any tasks.

The solution is thinking that failure type is not permanent. It will not be the end of the world even if you fail to do certain tasks. You can try them again.

5. Stay away from distractions as much as possible

There are many types of distraction. Some of them you can avoid and some not. Like someone talking aloud beside you, social media, emails, phone calls, etc.

Try to avoid these distractions by allocating them a separate time. Check your notifications in a small breaks only, not while you are working.

If someone talking loud or there are other people around you, or there may be any such distractions which change your focus, then tell yourself whatever you do there always be some sort of distraction around you. But you can just overlook them without giving any of attention to them.

Try the above tips to save the time as much as possible. This will surely help you to do all your tasks as fast as possible and you can complete your work in almost half a time you usually takes daily.

These tips to Stop procrastination is written with help these awesome books named “The Power of Positive Thinking” By Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and “David D., M.D. Burns, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy” by David Burns.

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