How to overcome procrastination

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What

Procrastination is when we avoid a task we said we would do, for no good reason, despite expecting our behavior to bring negative consequences.

Why

Many people procrastinate because they care too much.

Procrastinators often report a high fear of failure, putting things off because they’re afarid their work won’t live up to their high standards.

Effect

Frequent procrastinators are likely to suffer from anxiety and depression, ongoing feelings of shame, higher stress levels and physical ailments associated with high stress.

Personal feeling

  1. I am just too afraid to start the work
  2. I don’t do divide-and-conquer for he work
  3. I should find the pattern for the thing, then next time I can do it quickly

How

To short-circuit this stress response, we need to address and reduce these negative emotions.

  1. breaking a task into smaller elements
  2. journal about why it’s stressing you out
  3. try removing nearby distractions that make it easy to impulsively procrastinate
  4. forgiving yourself, and making a plan to do better next time