"Procrastination" is almost an act that each of us has more or less. In most cases, we will realize the harm that procrastination brings to ourselves in work and life.
But when faced with extremely poor self-control, I had no idea how to start, so I broke the can and slowly implanted the "delay" behavior into my life, thinking that it was normal.
People who are addicted to procrastination often blame themselves and then fall into a vicious cycle of "the more they procrastinate, the more they blame themselves, the more they procrastinate".
It is actually not difficult at all to get rid of "procrastination".
Why is it delayed?
Let’s first understand the underlying logic behind procrastination:
Under what circumstances will we choose to procrastinate? Generally, when facing difficult problems, we will feel the pressure doubled, thus resisting and resisting, and then "procrastinating" behavior.
What kind of people are prone to procrastination?
You can check it yourself according to your own situation:
. Perfectionists, they will pay too much attention to the result of one thing, or they will either not start, and they will do their best once they start, so they spend a lot of time and energy in the preparation stage, which is easy to delay because of the unsatisfactory results they predict.. People with inferiority complex will first deny themselves when facing a difficult task. They feel that their abilities are limited and are afraid that they will not do well, and use procrastination to prolong the inferiority complex caused by the results.
. People who think too much often set limits for themselves, think too much but do less, and then "procrastinate" behavior. However, in most cases, thinking is a problem, only when doing it will have an answer.
. People without goals do whatever they think of, spending day after day blindly, year after year, so what is really important to them usually choose to "procrastinate".
. Busy people, they keep rushing on the road every day, just repeating simple and easy things. Things that seem difficult but more valuable are often put behind their minds.
How to get rid of "procrastination"?
If your self-control is too poor and you often delay, please be sure to repeat these 7 simple actions crazily:
. Identification excuses
022 with 60 days left. How many goals have you achieved at the beginning of the year?
Whether it is life goals, annual goals or daily plans, most of the situations fail because "we are making excuses for our laziness."
What is an excuse? For example, you set a goal for yourself to read for one hour a day, but when you get home from get off work, you will think, "I'm so tired today and don't have the energy to study", "I'm not in good condition today, why don't I read again tomorrow", "I've dealt with a lot of important work today, which should make up for the guilt of not studying." Once similar ideas appear, there will definitely be procrastination.
So, our first simple action is to "identify excuses".
Starting from the goal, whenever we have any idea related to the goal, we must be vigilant and repeatedly ask ourselves "Is this idea that we are making excuses."
When we perceive our "excuses", we have hope to correct our mistakes and it is also the beginning of getting rid of "procrastination".
. Action now
I heard of a "5-second action method" before, which means that when you set a goal, you must do it immediately after counting down to 5 seconds.
This method is really effective in personal testing and has been tried and tested!
Lu Sihao wrote in his book: If you buy a book and don’t read it, it’s just a pile of waste paper. If you don’t read it, it will have no meaning. Action is the key.
Many times we are anxious and confused because we think too much and do less. When we predict bad results for something in advance, it is easy to procrastinate because procrastination can prolong the time when bad comes.
However, the fact is that the real result may not be as bad as we thought.
When a target appears in front of you, start first. Assume that any details that deviate from your expectations will still be adjusted in the process.
Doing difficult and correct things is the prerequisite for success.
. Improve concentration
When you eat, you are thinking that an important task has not been completed yet, so you focus on how to complete that task. Even if the delicious meal is, it may be boring when you go to your place, because your concentration is not at all about eating.
You hurriedly returned to your job after dinner, and suddenly you remembered that you would celebrate your anniversary with your lover at night, but before you could prepare a gift, you worked absent-mindedly while planning on the appointment tonight.
When you finally plan a romantic ceremony and sit down and have a candlelight dinner with your lover, you remember that an important project next week is about to end, but your preparation is not enough, so your mind is on how to do better, and even the time of being close to your partner becomes a burden...
Sometimes, we are just distracted by more unfinished things, and we are delayed and disrupted the originally orderly life.
is worse than focusing on the present, eat well, work well, and live well.
. Disassembly the target
Some targets seem difficult, and they have no idea how to start when they think about it. Therefore, this "seemingly difficult" goal can easily scare yourself off.
It is better to turn big goals into smaller ones. Only those small goals that seem simple can bring us the motivation to achieve them.
Take the reading goal as an example. I finished 400+ books during college because I was able to break down the goal.
has formulated a plan to read 50 books every year, and disassemblying it to 4 books every month;
then disassemblying it to 1 book every week;
has a goal of one chapter, twenty pages or one hour a day.
Does this look very simple? Then it will naturally increase the motivation to complete each small goal, and the annual monthly goal will naturally be completed.
The same is true. should not be discouraged because of the major goal, but instead move to the other side of success by dismantling the goal.
. Refusal to interfere with
In life, we must clarify the relationship between "people, things, and things". When we do something, we must also sort out what is related to us.
Now more and more people have turned their phones into part of themselves, and many things have not been completed because of interference from the outside world.
For example, you originally planned to complete the paper's opening report today, but your partner called you and you had to change your original plan.
Or you originally planned to complete it in 2 hours, but you unknowingly watched 2 hours of short videos.
In this small case, the partner and the mobile phone are irrelevant people and things.
When you set your goals and want to not procrastinate, you must choose to avoid irrelevant matters.
You can disclose your goals, so that irrelevant people should not disturb at a certain stage, and also reject controllable external interference, such as placing your phone where you cannot see it.
Rejecting interference can greatly improve your work efficiency and achieve your goals in advance.
. Using fragmented time
We often put the target in a whole piece of time. If there is no such whole piece of time, isn’t it easy to give up?
If you are a student, you must have a deep understanding of it. There are all kinds of homework in the university. Take the tutoring materials you bought for example. You want to complete a special training session in an hour, but you also arranged to listen to classes, exercise, participate in activities, and even have dinner with your roommates.
You feel that you are very busy, and you really don’t have that much time to use to write questions, so you push it again and again, until you forget that you still have this plan.
In fact, you can browse the question types when going to the toilet, and you can understand the problem-solving ideas when queuing. You can only do one question during class...
When you use all the fragmented time, you will find that you can do so many things.
The same is true for people in the workplace. Whether it is work or life, fragmented time can allow you to accomplish many things, making everything impossible possible.
. Instant reward
When you were a child, your kindergarten teacher would reward you with "a little red flower", so you work hard to perform better in exchange for more "little red flower".
Have you noticed that even if it is just a "inconspicuous little red flower", it is a particularly beautiful reward, or even an encouragement for you at the age of three or four.
Until we entered society, we were filled with life with fragmented things, and our requirements for ourselves only increased and did not decrease, but our rewards for ourselves were not arranged in a specific category.
We think it is natural to work hard, but we ignore the recognition of our hard work.
Next time, if you complete the small goals of each stage, remember to give yourself a reward immediately:
can be a bouquet of flowers, a big meal, or a journey you are thinking about.
matches different rewards according to the size and completion of the target, which is an encouragement and reward for you.
We have to do difficult and correct things, and the answer will naturally appear in front of us.
This issue’s dry notes about “quitting procrastination”, I hope it will be helpful to you. Although these behaviors are so simple that they are inconspicuous, they can help you get rid of “procrastination” and meet a more self-disciplined self.
@I am Zheng Xiaomiao . I love reading, can write, and understand operations. I hope you will become a better person because of meeting me.
