8 Super Ways To Avoid Procrastination

Written by Peter Murphy


How to avoid procrastination is a subject that everyone thinks about at sometime or another.

We are all guilty of delaying what needs to be done at sometime or another; so learning ways of how to avoid procrastination is beneficial to everyone.

Although learning how to avoid procrastination is simple, applyingrepparttar principles is harder as those who do procrastinate, will put off even attempting to avoid procrastination itself.

Some simple tips on how to avoid procrastination are as follows. It's all a simple matter of retraining yourself to getrepparttar 128973 job done.

1. Prioritize your daily tasks. Decide what has to be done, should be done, and what you would like to do.

2. Getrepparttar 128974 worst out ofrepparttar 128975 way first. Do that 'have to' job first; get it over and out of your hair. By doingrepparttar 128976 'have to's' first, it leavesrepparttar 128977 rest of your time to do those want to's and should be's.

Doing this one simple thing is one ofrepparttar 128978 best ways to avoid procrastination inrepparttar 128979 first place.

3. Delegate, if possible, some ofrepparttar 128980 worst things on your list to others. This will allow you to move on to other things and allow you to avoid procrastinating on those things you really don't want to do inrepparttar 128981 first place.

4. Make a list every morning of what you need to accomplish throughoutrepparttar 128982 day. Reward yourself each time you check an item done.

5. Look closely at how you procrastinate. Do you surfrepparttar 128983 web when you should be doingrepparttar 128984 accounting? Do you read and answer email when you should be doing that office report?

3 Clever Ways To Stop Procrastinating

Written by Peter Murphy


Stopping procrastination can be challenging, especially since you can't put it off until tomorrow! Most people who procrastinate did not do so overnight. Like any other bad habit, procrastination starts small and builds itself up.

Returning to a more dependable lifestyle however is possible. Follow these simple steps below and eventually, with dedication and self discipline your procrastination should be under control and your tomorrows will be a little less full!

Step #1 Start Small.

Usually if people procrastinate in their business lives they also procrastinate in their personal life too and vice versa.

Start small by making an everyday to do list. Examples include, but are not limited to; taking outrepparttar trash, doingrepparttar 128971 dishes, hanging up clothes, and maybe even littler things like makingrepparttar 128972 bed or tidying uprepparttar 128973 living room.

When you have things under control at a personal level it is easier to get things under control at a business level.

Getting yourself intorepparttar 128974 routine of not putting things off at home will be difficult sincerepparttar 128975 home isrepparttar 128976 easiest place to procrastinate: it is always there, you always have an extra day to work on it, and no one besides you or those who live you will know what you are putting off.

However, if you have noticed,repparttar 128977 places that we feel most comfortable in arerepparttar 128978 easiest to begin a bad habit and alsorepparttar 128979 hardest place to get rid of that bad habit.

A smoker's hardest place to deal with is their personal space and yours is too. So take control and shape yourself up at home to startrepparttar 128980 process of stopping procrastination.

Step #2 Take control at work.

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