Do you find yourself often procrastinating on all sorts of tasks? From your personal to professional life, do you find yourself always going to sleep at night with a feeling of regret, due to the fact that you did not achieve all that you had aspired to finish that day? There is no worse feeling that the thought of "what could have been" or the feeling that you have wasted precious time. Do not fall prey to procrastination one second longer. The secret to changing procrastination for good does not lie in a library full of books or countless seminars. Rather, it lies right in your own mind, and on a blank sheet of paper. Here are some simple tips on how you can revamp your procrastination with relative ease.
-Get Out Of That Hole. If you are a chronic procrastinator, then chances are that you have already dug yourself into a hole of unfinished projects. You can begin the process of beating your procrastination by starting with finishing your uncompleted work so that you may enter this new journey with a clean slate. Make a list of all the unfinished projects that you have hanging over your head. Now, break that list up into manageable tasks. Determine how many of these tasks you can accomplish a day, and make a schedule. Now, here is the easy part: follow your schedule and do one task. Then reward yourself by scratching it off the list! Continue doing that until all of the tasks that you have assigned yourself for that day are complete. It may feel odd at first to celebrate what seems like a baby step, but it is this very sense of feeling good about yourself that you will learn to cultivate.
-Create A Life Schedule. Now you understand that you feel inspired when you are feeling good about yourself. Also, since the feeling of inspiration somehow creates more energy in you, you can start to apply your new found awareness to your daily life. Create a schedule for each day that includes all of the things that are important to you, including giving some of your time and attention to projects that you formerly avoided. Make sure you also include activities that please you and feel fun to you. This is the tool that you are going to use for a period of time to help you recondition your habits.
Be your own life coach, and make a commitment to yourself to follow those two steps for a period of time that feels within reach for you. Perhaps it is a week, or it may be a month. Then follow your schedule one day at a time. Consider this to be an ongoing experience and be flexible about changing it as you discover your own rhythm. Remember that it is the very feeling of discomfort about yourself in not finishing projects that causes you to avoid them! So be very caring of yourself and celebrate all of your accomplishments, big and small. You will discover that you are much better at finishing things than you ever before realized!
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