How to Overcome Procrastination and Laziness

Have you been wondering how to overcome procrastination and laziness?

Procrastination is the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplished by a certain deadline.

It could be further stated as a habitual or intentional delay in starting or finishing a task despite knowing it might have negative consequences.
-Wikipedia

Procrastination is the act of delaying or postponing a task or several tasks.

Here are 15 hacks that will help us overcome procrastination.

Preparing a to-do list will save you time and help you to better organize yourself

This will result in motivating you to finish your tasks well on time.

This way you will be able to stop procrastinating.

Another thing that will help overcome procrastination is to categorize your tasks as important and urgent.

There are tasks that are important and they should be given priority.

Then their tasks that are urgent but not I'm bored important give them a priority.

By categorizing your tasks into two groups, you can accomplish all your tasks easily and on time.

Some people advocate finishing your tasks during your peak hours or during the times when you are most active and alert.

Right, on the other hand, some people advise finishing the easy jobs first.

This is what gives you momentum.

And doing those jobs when you are in momentum becomes easier.

I personally feel that whatever works for you, just go for it.

The problem with procrastination is overcoming inertia. Once the inertia is overcome then rapid action can follow up.

One way to take fast action is to think about the future benefits that you will get as a result of taking these actions.

It all starts in the mind.

If you have the mentality of taking action fast, then it will manifest itself in your actions.

Try to develop the mentality of taking action fast and early.

If you do this, your actions will sync with your mentality.

These days there are tools available for almost anything under the sun.

If your tasks are mainly online then there is a huge range of online tools available for you to make your tasks easier.

There are tools to manage your emails. There are tools to manage your time.

There are tools to manage your calendar or schedule. There are tools for almost anything you want to do online.

Use these tools to accomplish your tasks systematically as per your schedule.

Other than online software, there is stationery available to make your tasks easily achievable.

Use stationery like post-its and stickers to write mini messages.

These mini-messages will act as reminders and help you finish your tasks on time.

One of the easiest ways to complete tasks on time is to make yourself accountable to someone else.

Having an accountability partner could be the best thing that ever happened to you.

It may be tough at times having to give an account of yourself to somebody else.

But it can help you to develop personally beyond your wildest imagination.

It's a good practice to announce your goals to people and ask them to check up on you from time to time.

Teach yourself to value your time and other people's time.

Understand that time is a costly commodity. Some people say time is money and that is true.

In fact, time is more valuable than money because money can be replenished but time is limited.

Understand the value of time and you will drive procrastination out of your life.

Develop the habit of doing things on time.

This means that you will have to come out of your comfort zone.

But soon you will realize that life out of your comfort zone is the best life there is.

This also helps you to stop procrastinating.

Another easy and effective way to overcome procrastination is to set reasonable deadlines for your tasks.

What this will do is it will improve your sense of urgency.

This sense of urgency will drive you to finish your tasks on time.

Another main reason why people procrastinate is because of distractions.

Not all distractions are bad, but they don't contribute to accomplishing your tasks at the moment.

Therefore they will become hindrances to your accomplishing tasks.

These distractions will, therefore, delay the accomplishment of your tasks.

So it is important that you remind focused on your tasks and not devote your attention to unnecessary things.

The human body is made in such a way, that it needs to take small breaks to function in an optimal manner.

Thus, you need to take breaks every now and then to recharge your body and your mind.

That way, you will be able to accomplish your tasks on time.

Another hack is to divide big tasks into smaller tasks. It becomes easy to handle and does not overwhelm you.

Always divide bigger tasks into small achievable tasks. One person said that he was hungry enough to eat an elephant. When his friend asked "how" he would do it, he replied, " Bite by bite".

That is the way to deal with huge tasks - break them down into small chunks and then they are easy to manage.

Last, but not least, I would advise you just do it.

Ultimately it's your commitment and dedication to the task that will get it done.

So don't be bothered about a whole lot of things. Just concentrate on your work and go for it.

By utilizing these 15 hacks you can be sure of getting rid of procrastination in your life forever.

Just apply these principles in your life and get free from procrastination.

Increase your productivity and enjoy a life that is fulfilling and happy.