Procrastination is one of the main barriers blocking you from getting up and making the right decisions. Recent studies have shown that people regret more the things they haven't done than the things they have done. In addition, feelings of regret and guilt resulting from missed opportunities tend to stay with people much longer.
The mind of a procrastinator is a special mechanism that Tim Urban helps us to understand in his hilarious and insightful talk.
Questions:
Are you a self-organized person? Or do you tend to procrastinate from time to time?
How do you overcome procrastination? Please share your ways in the comments.
Sources:
https://procrastination.com/what-is-procrastination
Comments
Are you a self-organized person? Or do you tend to procrastinate from time to time?
Honestly, I try to be a self-organized person and sometimes it even works. But of course like everyone I can procrastinate. My 'monkey' wants to have fun and takes the wheel. Usually, it concerns complex tasks which I do not want to do (for example, like a writing diploma ) or with no deadline. If it is something easy and clear there will be no problems.
How do you overcome procrastination? Please share your ways in the comments.
The main thing that helps me is the existence of deadlines. 😅
Fortunately, my 'Panic Monster' wakes up a few days before, not on the last day of the deadline. And another way to overcome procrastination is planing. I try to make to-do list weekly, and then I distribute tasks by days.
2. Well, let me tell you about my story. I just realized that I was finally starting to be an adult. I have to start taking care of my affairs, education and work because my future depends on it. It was not ambition but fear that made me quite a conscientious and organized person. One day I wish it was the other way around and I would like to start doing things out of ambition and not fear of consequences
I am a person who likes order and organization very much. Therefore, I am definitely a self-organizing person. I don't like procrastination, when I have a task to do, I do everything to get it done as quickly as possible. I don't like to leave something for later because it never ends well. For example, I prefer to work very hard for 3 days and then have more time for myself on the next 2 days.
2.How do you overcome procrastination? Please share your ways in the comments.
My way of overcoming procrastination is by giving myself rewards after completing the task. This reward system motivates me. Whenever I complete a task ahead of schedule, I'm happy. For example, today, in order to complete the task faster, I decided to order myself a delicious burger.
Nowadays, during COVID-19 I let myself procrastinate a little. Mostly because there are not many activities to choose from and over the time I just feel tired and weary from the prevailing situation.
As I don’t have the urge to overcome procrastination (because I am not very prone to it :D ) it’s hard to answer this part of the question. However, to keep myself well organized (and as I suppose – train my brain, because I rarely forget about my tasks and responsibilities) I create a list of tasks on a small piece of paper every day to control what I should do throughout the day. As the day passes, I cross out my tasks. This gives me motivation to do the rest of them faster (and have a free evening) and lets me know if it’s possible for me to do often breaks or I should focus more on today’s work.
Are you a self-organized person? Or do you tend to procrastinate from time to time?
I think everyone knows the feeling of procrastination. For me, the most remarkable period of procrastination was during the first term of university. We had a few projects and I was more focused on living in a new big city than my studies. I regretted my behavior during the session. I was extremely scared and stressed. In the end, I realized that procrastination is not worth it. I’m still working on it and I can proudly say I’m not a procrastinator. Now I’m focusing on my mindset and becoming a “doer” rather than a “thinker”. I also like to say to myself “doing nothing brings you nothing”. Sometimes I work so hard that I become overstressed and almost burned out. It’s not good at all but I don’t want to slow down. I have so much to do! Many passions I want to dig more. many projects and exciting stuff!
How do you overcome procrastination? Please share your ways in the comments.
My first life hack to avoid procrastination is something I came up with by myself and I called it “reverse procrastination”. When I have some task to do and I have one month for it I’m started to do it immediately as I had only 3 days for it. Somehow I managed to feel the stress of the deadline and start doing things.
Another thing I always do when I have my working days (and how Elon Musk said “every woke hour is working hour”) is planning the next day every evening. My favorite way to do it is with a notebook and pen I always focus on the most important things to me. I never write down stupid things like “cleaning”. Also, I try to be very realistic and I don’t plan too much.
The important thing is regular work. Sometimes I like working and “chilling”. For example, I watch tv shows while designing. But I let myself acting like this because I know that I have a lot of time until the deadline.
Every task that takes me less than five minutes I do immediately.
When I have something that is very discouraging for me or it’s very hard I’m doing the Pomodoro technique. We set the timer for 20 minutes and focus intensely. Then we have 5 minutes break. The cycle repeats 4 times and then we have a longer break (around 30 minutes)
In summary, I don’t like procrastinating at all. Doing things before deadlines have more advantages. But I'm not perfect. While working, my biggest weakness is browsing online stores.
I'm a big procratinator. It's a fact and a bad habit i'm fighting with. I usually remember the things i have to do but if the deadline is far far away i simply tend to relax and not really think about it. I can't tell that im not self-organized as I'm always making things on time. It's just the procratination that makes it more difficult. That is the thing im trying to get rid off
2. How do you overcome procrastination? Please share your ways in the comments.
Sometimes I'm trying to simply motivate myself a little to do some work thats deadline is far away. Baby steps, baby steps. Not all at once. It is important to divide the work into small pieces. Doing something that takes literally 15 minutes is way easier than spending around 2 hours and usually getting worse result overall.
I am trying to organize my time. I have to-do list and i try to keep doing things every day. Anyway i think everyone have less productive days from time to time. In my opinion it is quite important to find some balance in that and take a rest at some days.
2. How do you overcome procrastination? Please share your ways in the comments.
I think the best motivation is deadline. I often postpone some things i don't know exactly why but it happens. At the end when i have just few hours to do some things or for example projects for subject my productivity is insanly groving and i finish this on time. Sometimes obviously it not works and then you can take adventage of the polish rule "bez spiny sa drugie terminy" which means: dont worry you can do it on second deadline. ;)
I don't perceive myself as a particularily well self-organized person. However, I'm much better at facing hard tasks now, compared to couple of years ago. I've learned that solving tough problems can give me a fair amount of satisfaction so I don't procrastinate that much anymore when it comes to studying. Nevertheless, there are still multiple areas in which I'm not that good, when it comes to not procrastinating.
How do you overcome procrastination? Please share your ways in the comments.
I believe that the best way of overcoming procrastination is just doing things you have to do. It may sound too trivial to be true but I think that making yourself "mad" at the task you need to complete is quite an effective way of gathering enough energy to face hard tasks.
2. The best motivation is to let go of the pressure that increases as things pile up on our to-do list. If we feel the relief of doing things as quickly as possible, we will be more willing to do new things in the same way. We can also imagine how much free time we will have when we quickly perform all the duties and what we spend it on, then the thought that we are getting closer to all these pleasant things will motivate us more and more.
I personally tried the Pomodoro technique and it really worked for me. Now this is one of my favorites.
And like you said, i also think that regular work is important. For me working and chilling does not work because I get distracted easily.
I tend to think that I'm quite self-organized, altough if a need to do a specially gruesome or daunting task which I don't know exactly how to do I tend to parocrastinate just as the next normal person.
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I think that todo lists are amazing at planning work, remembering stuff to do, and then
having a clear plan on what should be done on that day. The tasks should be as small as possible and having clear instructions so they can be finished easily, then it's much easier to start a task and finish it.
Are you a self-organized person? Or do you tend to procrastinate from time to time?
I am trying to be a self-organized, but it is quite hard at this time because I have a lots of task to do. Adult life is like you have to do and plan everything to be on time to catch the time.
And now we have so much free time but at the same time we still have tasks which you have to do remotelly. It means we have to be more organized otherwise lazy and same day routines can consumed us. And I might just turn into a lazy and boring amoeba
How do you overcome procrastination? Please share your ways in the comments.
I think just do what you have to do when you feel you want to do.
I don't know the ways to overcome procrastination. As for me I know that if I don't do that no-one is going to do that for me and I am just doing. As I mentioned above adult life is kinda like that you have to plan, perform and that's it.
Also I believe it will be rewarded in the future, so it might be helpful too.
I'm definitely organized person. Organization has always come easy to me. I truly organize things like my tasks at work, desk or even time. This helps me a lot especially when deadline is coming. I like doing things earlier to not to worry about them later.
2. How do you overcome procrastination? Please share your ways in the comments.
I think, it's naturally in my case. I fill my day with low-priority tasks. Read emails every hour to make sure that I don't miss something important. When I'm doing something big, something that has high-priority, I'm making few breaks to not overstrain.
2. How do I overcome procrastination? Unfortunately, I won't answer that question because I don't usually do it. If I procrastinate, it has been procrastinated and I'm not going back to it.