What is your plan for this month? I want to read and finish at least one book. I want to minimize expenses for this month and keep doing the same for the rest of the months. And what are you doing today to accomplish your goal? I don’t have any plans or I haven’t started planning yet. This is exactly what happens to most of us. We have plans in our mind and know what our goal is, but we never manage our time or work to make it happen for real. Procrastination! Yes we do delay things to do. We believe we have a lot of time to plan and work.
Why do we procrastinate?
Simply we assume that we have a lot of time. Considering the playfulness of time, we do nothing and think when time comes, everything will be alright. And when time finally comes, we rush and do everything quickly or we don’t do anything. We simply procrastinate and delay the goal length. In most cases, we do not take procrastination as a serious problem and take it easy and betray ourselves by self-sabotaging.
Causes of procrastination
We very often assume that nothing serious will happen if we delay no matter how important the project is. Also, we think that it won’t take much time to finish and believe that we still have plenty of time to complete the project. Because of this consumption;
We totally miss the time to give a proper start
We eventually hold the project for the next
Even if we give a start we can’t finish before deadline
Most of the time we give up on the project and think for the alternative
We procrastinate by taking a lot of advice from inexperienced people
The project remains undone
The reason of procrastination
The common reason for procrastination is a big excuse. We bring tons of excuses and researchers found that kind of excuses why most people procrastinate on their important projects, including;
Not knowing what needs to be done
Don’t know how to do
Not aware of the consequences
Blaming lack of time and sickness
Waiting for the right moment
Thinking that you can finish at the last minute
Having too many projects at the same time
Delaying one task in favor of working on another
Lack of self discipline
Ignoring the value of time
Dilemma to take decision on the right project
Suggestions
How to stop procrastination and focus on the project that already has been decided. Here are the few suggestions and steps you may take and never procrastinate to plan on the same project every year.
Decide on the project that what you are going to do
Break down your project into small parts
Make an achievable short term plan on your project
Focus more on the process than the outcome
Take some advice from an expert if you need
Give a small start
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