Home » Working Women » Work From Home » Just Kick That Procrastination Habit!

Are you sick and tired of putting things off? Are you the kind who stops every time you start? Do you go out of your way to sabotage any effort you might make to get things going? So you hate yourself for belonging to the procrastinators group. Never mind. You have come to the right place. We at Sitagita can give you a few workable tips to help you kick this habit. No longer will you have a long history of unfinished projects or piles of paper work waiting for your attention. Yes! You can now look forward to changing yourself from a drone to an efficient worker and earn laurels too!

1. Work seems overwhelming? Stop looking at everything at a time and getting intimidated by what seems to be an impossibly huge task. Get down to breaking up goals and projects into small do-able parts. Assign specific deadlines to each part.
2. Once you are clear about your goals, start prioritising them. Begin by writing down on paper. This makes the whole thing more official as it now seems to be more concrete. Once you can go through the actual requirements, it will be easier for you to start and complete the work.
3. Discuss the job on hand with a friend or colleague. Discuss about the decisions that need to be taken in tandem with others. Ask a friend to motivate you. Sometimes, all you might need to get going is a fresh perspective on the work to be done.
4. It is important to establish a routine and a regular time each day during which you will take up a specific aspect of the task. This way, you will establish a regular schedule of work.
5. Before you start on the job, organise your immediate environment. Keep all the tools you will need so that everything is conducive to working uninterruptedly.
6. Post reminders where you can see them. This way, your goals are constantly before you and you are aware of all your deadlines.
7. Postpone something you normally do, like say, watching your fave programme on TV till you complete the task on hand. This will be an added incentive for you to complete on time.
8. And finally, set rewards for yourself for both your ultimate goals as well as the mini goals. You really deserve the rewards for getting over the procrastination habit!

Congrats! I'm sure you have put procrastination on the back burner instead of the tasks to be done and have managed to conquer a habit that was getting you nowhere!