Tips and tricks across the web to battle procrastination!
According to Psychology Today:
"Everyone procrastinates sometimes, but 20 percent of people chronically avoid difficult tasks and deliberately look for distractions—which, unfortunately, are increasingly available. Procrastination in large part reflects our perennial struggle with self-control as well as our inability to accurately predict how we'll feel tomorrow, or the next day.
Procrastinators may say they perform better under pressure, but more often than not that's their way of justifying putting things off."
We live in a culture of multi-tasking. We listen to music while watching TV while doing homework while on Facebook while having a conversation with a friend in person and online. And then we procrastinate. How can we battle it? Googling procrastination will bring up all sorts of "tips and tricks" but I think it just comes down to one thing (and in the words of Nike): JUST DO IT!
We can also cite South Park's ADHD cure (sorry for the link, it's the only one I could find) for a procrastination cure:
We just need to SIT DOWN AND STUDY. Also, lists. Lots and lots of lists.
I'm also a big list fan! But sometimes I forget I wrote the list :)
ReplyDeleteThis is a struggle not so easy as JUST DO IT or making lists. I love this article on Procrastination on a website called "You Are Not So Smart: A Celebration of Self Delusion."
ReplyDeletehttp://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/10/27/procrastination/
Bottom line, if we know ourselves to be procrastinators, we're in a better position to trick our future self into doing what our present self knows we should, rather than what our future self will want.
Thanks for bringing up this topic!
It's always easier said than done, right? :o) I can't even follow my own rule of just do it.
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