Here's how you can overcome your procrastinating habits

Procrastination one of the biggest barriers to productivity is a gradual process that ultimately finds its way inside a creative persons head eventually getting floating in the transition from being a guilty pleasure to something problematicThe act of unnecessarily postponing decisions or actions often impairs the ability to successfully pursue goals as evidenced by the fact that procrastination has often been associated with lower grades in high school or an underwhelming salary at work for example In addition to these procrastination is associated with a variety of other issues as well including an increase in stress and a decreased physical and mental healthAccording to a thread from UpSkillYourLife on Twitter below are some reasons why we procrastinate and ways to overcome them by understanding the psychology behind itA perfectionists fearProcrastination stems from a persons subconscious fear of failure Ones urge to put off a task long enough to avoid facing potentially negative results also serves a strong motive for a person to delay and avoid tasks Another major contributor to procrastination is the mindset of getting things done just about the right way rather than working towards bettermentHow to tackleTry visualizing the completion of a task in a positive wayUnderstanding that perfection is a myth Putting in ones best effort and realizing the need for itA dreamers lack of action We often plan and schedule things as per our creative liabilities But what serves as a blockade to creative curation is the inability to put ones brilliant creative ideas into action This happens when there is no concrete goal setting in place after the idea has been implemented In addition an aimless approach also manifests a lack of decision making and delaysHow to tackleOnce we have an idea it is the best practice to write down a timeline of what we want to achieve and by whenApply and practice this regularly to keep oneself on track and accountableAn overwhelmed avoiderOften we come across tasks that are deemed overwhelming In such scenarios we often find it easy to procrastinate Psychologically the complexity of a task causes the brain to lose motivation and avoid doing it altogetherHow to tackleBreak the challenging task into further smaller tasks and tackle each of them individuallyA busy bee who lacks prioritizationWhen one has too many tasks at hand it is very common for people to miss out on acknowledging the differing importance of each task In most cases too much time is wasted on switching from one task to the other or wasting too much time deciding what to do Also multitasking at times can get things mixed upHow to tacklePrioritizing ones work and choosing important tasks over urgent onesQuestioning and understanding the value and purpose of each task then making a list in order of their importanceDistractionprone Distraction is also an eminent cause of procrastination since our brains are not wired efficiently to focus on something for a long period of time Running away from one task our mind always looks for something or the other to doHow to tackleBeing mindful of ones workspace and potential distractionsWorking for a period of 2030 minutes at a time and then taking a 5minute breakThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever