Once you figure out things you do to put off what needs doing, it's easy to figure out how to avoid procrastination by eliminating those behaviors. If you can't eliminate behavior, save it for reward of getting job done.

6. Keep a day planner. Write down what has to be accomplished and block out time you are going to do it.

Once job is done, check it off or draw a line through it. Seeing checkmarks on paper will motivate you to move on to next item on your list.

7. At end of day, write down what you have accomplished. This can sometimes be its own reward.

As you see list grow from day to day, you will begin to look for ways to avoid procrastination yourself.

8. Write out a set of goals for yourself. List where you want to be next week, next month, next year and five years from now.

Look at how what you are putting off keeps you from reaching those goals.

Knowing how to avoid procrastination is really all about setting personal goals for yourself and sticking with them. As you find ways to juggle all things that have to be done, and see rewards of getting them finished, you will find even more ways on how to avoid procrastination for yourself.

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.