No doubt if you are a procrastinator at home then you usually have things piling up at work to do or you find yourself at end of day hurrying to get things done that you should have done that morning or day before.

Well stop that!

Make a list, just like you did for at home. Start day by making a list of things you must check off by a certain time in day.

For example, say you want to get reports done on time that usually you put off until end of day. Make a list and note that reports must be checked off by 10:00 that morning.

At first you may find yourself racing and checking off that item on list right at ten or slightly before but keep at it and you just might find yourself checking off your list long before time its due!

Practice makes perfect and more you practice and being on time easier it gets and soon it becomes as second habit as procrastination is or hopefully used to be.

Step #3 If All else fails, weight guilty consequences.

You know how mad you feel or even embarrassed when you have pushed yourself to last minute or even past last minute?

Whenever you feel yourself giving into urge to procrastinate just remember that feeling and predict how you will feel next day when you are faced with your normal circumstances plus those you have avoided and waited to do. A very simple form of self discipline but a very effective one.

Stopping procrastination isn't always easy but it can be done. Follow these steps diligently; just be careful to get started today even if only in a small way.

Another example, might be if you have been putting off visiting someone you know you should visit then give that person a call and let them know you will be visiting on a particular day.

Once you have made this commitment it will likely be more difficult to not follow through. Simply by putting this person on notice of a visit will create a deadline with accountability.

3. Put someone on notice that a project will be completed on a particular date.

If there is a project at work that you have been procrastinating about. Send your boss a note telling him or her that they can expect project on a certain date.

This will create a deadline for you and your boss will likely hold you accountable by asking for project if in fact it is not delivered by date you promised it.

4. Leave yourself no way out.

Leaving yourself no way out is in a sense burning bridge behind you so that you have no choice but to complete a task which you have been putting off.

If for instance, you need to buy a new vacuum because old one has had it. You have money saved for new one but you have just been putting off going shopping for one.

Burn bridges behind you. Give your old appliance away to a local thrift shop. Then you have no choice but to buy that new one.

You can put a stop to procrastination by simply setting yourself deadlines and holding yourself or having someone else hold you accountable.