Let's not be cunning: almost everyone knows about procrastination. Many even admit that from time to time they deliberately postpone making significant decisions, which does not contribute to a change for the better. It is worth figuring out what will help in the fight against such an unprofitable occupation for a person.
Each person at least once in his life postponed the decision of unpleasant, even important and urgent matters, until a certain time. This phenomenon is called procrastination in psychology. It leads to psychological stress, missed opportunities and wasted time. However, there are many techniques and techniques that can help you overcome procrastination and become a person who effectively and efficiently uses your time.
Technique "First step"
Many people do not want to start doing things precisely because they have no idea where to start. Nevertheless, the first step is the foundation, the foundation for the success of any business.
This technique includes the following steps:
- Determine the motivation for completing the case. You can even answer your questions in writing - What is it for? What will it give? What new can I learn, what skills and abilities to acquire?
- Present and prescribe the first action to achieve this task, which can be performed now.
- Take literally 5 minutes to do this every day.
Interesting techniques
- Making a list. The technique is that all the necessary cases are presented visually - in the form of tables, graphs or a simple list. Cases can be ranked by degree of importance or urgency. The use of this technique will allow you to always see the upcoming tasks and correctly calculate the time required to complete them.
- It's more fun together. Research shows that dealing with unpleasant things in a company is much easier, faster, and more fun. With like-minded people, you can decide how to do things of a different profile, and choose something in common to do.
- Sweet for dessert. This technique is about doing unpleasant things first, and doing pleasant things afterwards. Such a ranking will not allow you to postpone what is not interesting, but, on the contrary, will provide additional motivation to perform in order to quickly move on to solving those tasks and affairs that cause pleasure.
- Not a whip, but a carrot. It consists in motivating yourself to do things gently, with love for yourself. Perhaps encouragement with something pleasant, not necessarily material, this is especially important after performing unpleasant deeds. An incentive can be anything: a kind word, compliments to yourself, a delicious dinner, a walk, a trip to the cinema.
- Restriction on social networks. Viewing the news feed takes a lot of time and effort from a person. It would seem, what does the force have to do with it? The fact is that when a person needs rest, distraction from work, the most effective are activities that require a change in the type of activity - sports, walking, gymnastics. In order to get as little distraction as possible on social networks during the day, you can set a limit on notifications and set a time for yourself. For example, in the evening, when all the necessary things have been completed and there really is an opportunity to scroll through the news feed.
All of these techniques can help combat procrastination. However, the most important thing is a sincere desire to change the person himself.
