How to deal with procrastination

I am sure everybody procrastinates, but one of the things that really struck me is, when I used to have to achive develop task, one of the things I always did is, before I sat down to actually do the work, I wanted to prepare the scene, I wanted to tidy my desk, I wanted make myself a cup of tea. And what I realized is that I was just basically delaying like the actual work.

And it was just another form of procrastination.

There is a lot of studies have been done on it and it shows like it's almost like addiction.

It works so similarly in human brain to an addiction, in the sense that like, you know, the more you feed it the stronger it gets, the more dependent you become on procrastinating.

So one of the best ways is to just not feed it.

Imagine it as this sort of monster that you have to really break away from.

So ever since I realized that, what I did, instead of sort of doing all of these little things beforehand, is I just got started.

And once I was done, once I did the work that I wanted to do, be it revising for an hour or studying that I reward myself, that I get myself a snack or I find something fun to do for like 5 minutes.

And this really helped me like beat procrastination. And one of the ways that you can try is something called the Pomodoro Technique.

So you set the timer for twenty five minutes.

You do the tasks that you are meant to do and then after that time when the timer rings you have a five munute break.

And in that five minutes you can do whatever it is you want, like go for a walk, go for a snack, look outside the window, go on like you computer, search for something you like.

And the point is that you are delaying all of these fiddly things or all of these little bitty things for that five minutes.

So while you are working you are fully focused on working and while you're having a break you're fully focused on having a really relaxing break.

So have a go of that. May that can help you.

2020.08.08 09:39
Shanghai Erlian