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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6 Positive thinking tips to attract success and happiness

There are many heavy things, which you find difficult to lift up. Negative thoughts are one of those heavyweight things. Though you can't really see them, surely you can feel them. And the positive thinking is the most energy giving and productive activity you need to follow.

What are negative thoughts?
Why they feel so heavy inside your head?
Why negative thoughts drains all of your energy and make you feel paralyzed?
How to overcome negative thoughts and think positive thoughts?

We will see answers to all the above questions and know how to make your life better with positive thinking.

Before starting about positive thinking, first of all, let's know what are negative thoughts?

There are all types of thoughts in our mind. Some thoughts make us feel happy and some make us sad.

Some thoughts bring us a profit and some loss.

Some thoughts make us laugh a lot and some make us cry.

Some thoughts make us feel courageous and some to be afraid.

Some make us angry and some make us feel the love.

And some of the thoughts just come and go from our mind without affecting us much.
I think you might have got some idea about the difference between negative and positive thoughts.

Negative thoughts are those thoughts which change your mood negatively. Which makes you sad, afraid and less confident and sometimes fill your mind with anger and hatred.

Can we control them? Can we eliminate them from our mind completely?

An answer to the second question is no but answer to the first question is yes.

Our mind is always full of thoughts, with some positive and some of the negative. We cant fully eliminate negative thoughts from our mind.

But we can change our thought process to convert negative thoughts into positive thoughts by following few simple but effective processes.

1. Use positive affirmations - do positive self-talk

Let us first see why negative thoughts come to our mind?

Remember when you were learning cycle for the first time (some of you might have not yet learned though) what thoughts came to your mind?

You might have thought that you would get fall from the cycle, you would get hurt badly and you would never learn a cycle in your whole life.

These are very natural thoughts. But these are negative ones. Actually, all of the negative thoughts which come to our mind are not to hurt us but some of them want to protect us.

It's actually a gift which makes us safe from many dangers. But only if these negative thoughts are in a certain amount.

Whatever you try to do, for the first time or even for the 100th time, there will always be a doubt in your mind, whether you can do it or not?
If you allow your doubt to take control of your mind, this will convert into powerful negative thought which comes automatically. And it's natural.

Always keep in mind that many times automatic negative thought may arrive in your mind as a natural phenomenon. But you can change this negative thought by positive thinking, for example - you can change the negative thought “I could not learn a cycle” by saying “I can learn a cycle by practice”. This will avoid procrastination thinking of your mind.

This is a positive affirmation. Tell yourself repeatedly that you can do all the things, you want to do.
Talk back to your negative automatic thoughts and replace them with positive self-talk, positive affirmations. Always remember, 1 positive thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative thought.

Just tell yourself that you will get whatever you want by doing right things required. This positive self-talk will make you feel happy and gives you a feeling of satisfaction and an energy to achieve the desired results.

2. Believe in yourself.

When any negative thought comes, you don't feel confident and vice versa.

Many times when you are not sure about your situations negative thoughts to start feeling inside your mind. Then the battle to tackle these negative feelings, negative thoughts get started inside your mind.

This causes lots of drainage of your mental energy. That's why your mind feels heavy and less energetic when in negative feelings.

But when you feel full confidence in your work, your mind actually generates an immense amount of energy to do any of your work. You become enthusiastic and complete the work you are on.

Why? Because when you feel confident you actually have full faith in your ability, in your knowledge, in your skills.

There is a famous phrase -

Eagle doesn't get afraid of sitting on a weak trunk if it gets broken.
Because eagle is having faith in its feathers and not in the trunk.

Same, when you make yourself confident by believing in yourself, by believing in your abilities, skills, and knowledge then you don't need to be afraid. You can tell yourself that you can accomplish your tasks definitely. This is called as a positive thinking.

Just look at you and tell yourself that you have all the abilities to achieve and get the things you want in your life. Just believe in yourself.

3. Surround yourself with positive people

When do you feel negative? When negative thoughts come inside your mind.

But there are external sources also, which may plant negative thoughts in your mind. These sources are the negative thinking people.

Even if you are feeling positive from the inside, but if any person started speaking negatively, having doubt in your ability then this will also lead to making you think negatively. These type of negative people are like energy suckers and negative environment makers.

Always try to identify such people around you and try to avoid them as much as possible. Stay away from any external source of negative energy. Keep them outside of your mind.

Positive thinking people also spread positive environment around them. Identify such positive people and be around those positive people.

4. Visualize positive situations

Rina was preparing her presentation for her meeting on next day. She was not feeling much confident while making a presentation, whether it will be good or not. She started having doubt about the quality of her presentation, because of her perfectionist behavior.

Her doubt becomes stronger and stronger while making a presentation. And she started thinking negatively. She was visualizing that - "on next day my presentation will not be good. I will make mistakes and my boss will not be happy.".
What happens on next day? She was so afraid about her meeting that she was not able to take proper sleep at night and wakes up late. Then she was in so hurry that she didn't have her breakfast.
Results, less energy, dull face and dull presentation. And her negative visualization becomes true.

This is a simple example of negative visualization. Instead, if she self-talk positively and visualize positive outcome here situation might be different.

Try to visualize positive outcomes. Visualize positive thoughts and situations. This will make your mind fill with energy to do things. You will relax and more productive to achieve your desired tasks.

5. Will you come outside and move forward only when all the signals are green?

Imagine you tell yourself that until and unless all the traffic signals on the road become green, you will not take your car out.

Sometimes we do this to all of our work. We wait for the time when all the situations become favorable to us. You think negatively that your current situation is not good enough to even try the things.

This thought process paralyzes you to take an action. Your mind becomes occupied with this “red signal feeling”. Just talk back and ask the question - “Will you come outside your house and move forward only when all the signals are green?”.

Tell yourself that situations will never always be perfectly favorable to you. You have to move forward, signals by signals. If you find in your path some situations as red signals, still try to move out, start working soon red signals will turn green.

6. Have a faith in God

It's your personal choice whether you believe in God or not. But having faith in God leads us to a most positive form of energy.

Think God as a fatherly figure who will always stand by you. Thank God for whatever you have and ask help to the God in every situation. This will give you relief and a sense of security.

When your mind feels relax it generates more energy and a chain of positive thoughts will flow in your mind. Just try it out to check the results.

The above article about positive thinking is written from the reference of 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.

You can get more help on positive mindset and positive thinking lifestyle by reading these awesome books.

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