These are some of the tips that can be helpful for overcoming procrastination, but many of them have already helped thousands of lazy fellows. Find ones suitable exactly for you and soon the effectiveness of your work will grow and time of your procrastination will be minimized.

1. 15 WAYS TO STOP PROCRASTINATING
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2. At the same time, sometimes procrastination becomes a real problem. Not
all school children are able to outgrow this period and do not want to do
anything even having grown to the adult age. This bad habit transforms
into the way of life and later it is almost impossible to get rid of this
trouble. That is why it is always necessary to start correcting any
misconceptions from the very beginning and if you wish to reach a good
result, you will definitely do that.
There is hardly any person, who wouldn’t agree that used to
laze around in his life. It is a perfect way to relax and
intentionally sabotage your responsibilities.
Each of us needs such kind of experience
to be able to evaluate its consequences
and see how it can influence us, our family,
friends, assignments, dreams etc.

3. Write down all
the planned tasks
Putting everything in writing is a good
opportunity to deprive yourself of the habit to put
the fault on your forgettable memory. If you list all
the tasks you plan to do and set deadlines for
each of them, there are fewer chances that you will
ignore them. It would be also useful to stick this
list in front of your eyes for it to remind you of
everything that requires your attention and efforts.
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4. Determine what feeling
makes you laze around
According to the scientists, many procrastinators are
people, who are overwhelmed with definite negative
feelings.
There are usually three of them ->
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Anger
SadnessFear
Try to identify what feeling and
life situation made you do
nothing. Even some it may seem
non-significant experience could
result in dragging your heels,
so self-analysis might help you
determine it.

5. This emotion should be
released
It happens that we bear some feelings during
the whole our life and they ruin us from the
inside. Such destructive behavior can also
result in an inability to make yourself work,
so it is advisable to get rid of them.
Even some simple actions like knocking
something down exaggerated shivering or
moving film can be useful and working.
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6. Divide the assigned to you task into
several parts and set specific
deadlines
It often happens that a person can not make himself work because a received
by him task seems a real challenge and is incredibly sizable. One of the ways
to ease this task is to break this assignment into several constituents that can
be finished gradually. First, you will not get frustrated because of the amount
of work to be performed within a stated period of time. Another benefit is a
good chance to persuade yourself that a big amount of work is impossible to
complete. Of course, you will spend more time to finish the task but you also
will have more time for rest and recharging.
You should also be focused on the completing only the next piece of the
task and experts advise to plot out any part of the whole project to be able
to evaluate if you have completed everything and can take the next step. At
the same time you should have several deadlines: one for each project part, as
a single deadline allows procrastinating for a long time and then be frustrated
how to finish everything in tied time frames.
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7. Praise yourself for the tiniest
achievements and set penalties for
laziness
We usually find time to praise ourselves after a big
amount of work that was completed. But sometimes it
is not enough for our mind. You shouldn’t wait until
tomorrow to congratulate yourself even with the
finishing of a small part of the task. The reward is
the best incentive to continue self-development and
five minutes of rest or a tiny chocolate bar can give
you more strength and stamina to go to the next stage
and perform every task more efficiently.
As well as you reward yourself for
performing one or another task, you can
set penalties for laziness too. This can be
money donated to nonprofit organizations
or just given to your relatives or some
tasty delicacies you always consume.
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8. Make changes in your
customary environment
Each of us gets accustomed to everything that surrounds
us and once you realize that it is time to change
something. The environment you work or live in can be
stressful, unpleasant or disappointing and as a result, all
the work has no result and you start procrastinating. If
you feel that you need to change something in order to
complete the task, do it immediately. Sometimes it is
enough to hang an inspiring picture or change some
accessories to give the room a completely new look that
encourages to start working.
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10. Find another more
inspiring place for work
If you feel that minor changes give no
result, scientists recommend trying to
work in a completely different
atmosphere. You might go out and find a
comfortable bench in the park, switch on
the music, find out a partner and team up
with this person or work at the table in the
small café with a coffee in your hands –
everyone should decide what environment
will be productive exactly for him and not
be afraid to change it.
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11. Destructive ideas and
thoughts are to be neutralized
Usually, it happens that “the devil is not so black as he is
painted”. All people are used to exaggerating their
viewpoints or the severity of assigned tasks. Having no
desire to do anything we automatically refer these
assignments to the column of “almost impossible to
perform” and as a result can’t make themselves even
start doing it. If you see that any negative feelings pop
in your head, always try to find an antidote that will
show you some benefit. By doing so, you will encourage
yourself and realize that everything is possible and is
not that difficult.
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12. Never allow obstacles
to stop you
What is an obstacle? Different people will give various answers, as
some of them refer this term to the physical objects but there is a
big number of people, who will agree that obstacles can be
emotional or sensational. Some people build these obstacles
themselves: ones can not start doing anything because of the dull
weather, the others convict magnetic field, the third transform
different occasional situations into the hints of Gods. Stop wasting
your time and look for reasons to laze. You should not only find
benefits in work but also overcome real obstacles that might happen
on your way to success. Broken PC shouldn’t prevent you from
writing as it can be performed using a pen etc. Be ready to face
obstacles and prepare yourself to overcome them!
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14. Decrease the number of the
procrastination pit-stops
There are many different things surrounding us that
allow and even make us procrastinate. There are several
options you can use to make the things less intrusive:
Make your most often used bookmarks of the browser less accessible putting them into
a separate folder;
Switch off the automatic notifications both in the PC and mobile phone as they provoke
making breaks;
Put your snack next to you instead of going every time to the fridge;
Hide all the distractions that might interfere with your tasks (books, magazines, photos
etc.);
Tell your dearest relatives and friends time frames when you are busy for them to avoid
calls or visits etc.
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15. Try to be in the circle of people
who encourage you to take
actions
• There are several types of people, who surround us. The first
ones make use of us, the others encourage us to do anything
together, the third look for inspiration or help communicating
with us etc. Each person has its purpose when he or she turns
to you on any issue. Your task is to differentiate people, who
distract you or vice versa trigger you to act.
• The latter ones are usually go-getters and hard-workers,
who can be an example to follow. Spending time with these
people you will not have time even to think about
procrastination and also can inculcate their spirit, drive and
speed of work. Undoubtedly, dealing with inspiring people
makes you also feel inspired.
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16. Exchange your ‘have to’
for ‘choose to’
We usually find time to praise ourselves after a big amount of work
that was completed. But sometimes it is not enough for our
mind. You shouldn’t wait until tomorrow to congratulate yourself
even with the finishing of a small part of the task. The reward is
the best incentive to continue self-development and five minutes of
rest or a tiny chocolate bar can give you more strength and stamina
to go to the next stage and perform every task more efficiently.
As well as you reward yourself for performing one
or another task, you can set penalties for laziness too.
This can be money donated to nonprofit organizations
or just given to your relatives or some tasty delicacies
you always consume.
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17. Ask yourself 3 important
questions:
Am I using my time now in the most profitable way?
Am I suitable for performing this task?
Am I trying to avoid doing something more important being busy with
this task?
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If you give negative answers to the first and the third questions and
nod answering the second one, it is the best time to put any task
aside and start doing something important.

18. Make the assignment
more enjoyable
Boredom is one of the most widely spread reasons of
procrastination. Boring tasks are incredibly difficult to perform, so if you can’t
change your attitude to the task, change the way to perform it. Almost each
task can be transformed into the game or competition. You can ask someone
to assist you and compete with this person rewarding the best executer or
organize a game for a single player challenging yourself.
One of such games is beating your previously set
records. If you don’t like to go shopping, you can encourage
yourself to do that by beating records of saving money.
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19. Take actions
Many people are not courageous enough to take
responsibility for themselves.
They do thorough planning, build strategies and make
hypotheses, but never attempt to take actions. Any task can be
completed if it undergoes the stage of starting doing it. Until
you doubt and find reasons to postpone doing any job, you
will never receive results.
Make yourself take the action right now and soon you will
see that the try was worth the effort. Having started the
task right now in most cases it will be sooner finished, so
never be afraid to take actions immediately.
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20. These are only some of the tips that can be helpful
for overcoming procrastination, but many of them
have already helped thousands of lazy fellows. Find
ones suitable exactly for you and soon the
effectiveness of your work will grow and time of
your procrastination will be minimized.