3 Ways to Overcome Procrastination

You stop procrastinating by understanding your inner power. Your brilliance has no good reason to wait.?

“I’ll finish that soon,” and, “I can make some more time for that later,” all sound like benign and even proactive intentions. But they’re really our anxieties showing up and making our decisions for us. Procrastination makes smart, capable people become complacent, anxious, and unreliable. What’s more, figuring out how to stop procrastinating isn’t always easy.?

When you don’t take on the responsibilities and tasks of your day head-on, you’re shrinking away from your power. What most people don’t realize is that procrastination is not a matter of laziness. It’s a matter of self-belief.?

When you understand your inner power and believe in yourself, you’re able to see procrastination for the unnecessary, silly roadblock that it really is.?

Here’s how to stop procrastinating and holding yourself back.

1. Take the emotion out of your to-do list.?

Procrastination is the act of saving high-priority items for later due to anxiety, self-doubt, and feeling overwhelmed. You’re struck by the inability to act now, so you act later, or worse— never.?

But here’s the thing. Procrastination is emotional. Research done by Dr. Tim Pychyl and Dr. Fuschia Sirois has shown that when we procrastinate, we’re allowing our emotions to rule our lives.?

Talking ourselves out of tasks because the thought of doing them overwhelms us is a display of toxic emotion. Removing emotion out of the equation allows us to breathe and think clearly. When we approach our to-do list objectively and without intense feeling, we give our brain the clarity it requires to be able to process what needs to be done to complete each task.?

Try Breath Work With Gratitude.?Take 20 deep breaths to elevate your emotions. Place an open palm of you hand on your heart, close your eyes. Inhale through your nose (count to 5), exhale through your mouth (count to 8) focus your attention on your heart and breathe through your heart. As you are taking these 20 deep breaths feel and think thoughts of appreciation, thankfulness, gratitude. What are you grateful for? Grateful to be alive, Grateful for my health. Grateful for my family. Grateful for my home. Grateful for my job. Grateful for my business. This breathing exercise will put you in the state of flow, elevate your emotional state, slow down heart rate, slow down your brain waves, elevate your cognitive ability, elevate your creativity.

2. Don’t think too much. Act.

Overthinkers are some of the best procrastinators out there. Why? Because they let their thoughts eat up their momentum. While brainstorming and preparing yourself mentally for work is a good idea, overthinking takes what could be a proactive thought and turns it into a worried, impenetrable wall of inaction.?

See your overthinking for what it is. Allow yourself to get lost in your work instead of your anxious thoughts. If starting a large project makes your brain panic, break each objective into smaller, less scary, achievable tasks. How do you build an entire house? Brick by brick.

3. Forgive yourself.

Because procrastination typically deals with negative and intense emotion, an accustomed procrastinator is more likely to be unforgiving and hard on themselves. The solution, while dependent on action and self-belief, is anchored in forgiveness.?

Forgive yourself for the times you’ve procrastinated in the past, forgive yourself for the times you’ll procrastinate in the future, and forgive yourself for every hiccup and misstep in between. Tomorrow is a new day with abundant chances to start again. Approach yourself with gentle understanding always.?

You stop procrastinating by understanding your procrastination objectively. Strive to fully realize your inner power and true capabilities. Your brilliance has no reason to wait.?

Here are some of the top anti-procrastination techniques you can use:

• Break large tasks into small, actionable pieces.
• Set concrete deadlines for yourself.
• Eliminate distractions from your environment, turn your phone off.
• Count to 10 before indulging the impulse to procrastinate.
• Get yourself started by committing to work for only 5 minutes productively.
• Mark streaks of days on which you complete all your tasks.
• Reward yourself for your accomplishments.
• Give yourself permission to make mistakes.
• Visualize your future self.
• Plan the day before; 6 goal achieving actions to complete the next day.
• Focus on your goals instead of on your tasks.

Key Points

Procrastination is the habit of delaying an important task, usually by focusing on less urgent, more enjoyable, and easier activities instead. It is different from laziness, which is the unwillingness to act.

Procrastination can restrict your potential and undermine your career. It can also disrupt teamwork, reduce morale, and even lead to depression and job loss. So, it's crucial to take proactive steps to prevent it.

The first step to overcoming procrastination is to recognize that you're doing it. Then, identify the reasons behind your behavior and use appropriate strategies to manage and overcome it.

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What do you need throughout the day to feel good? Give it to yourself. Be generous and loving with your mind and body and know that you have the power to chose one emotion over another. Chose to stay in the present moment, understand that you have the power to chose to replace any negative emotions with elevated emotions and self regulate.

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