Beat Procrastination
 How
to Avoid Procrastination and Laziness
Bernard Meltzer very well reflects the essence of procrastination
in this quote: "Hard work is often the easy work you did not do
at the proper time."
Are You Affected?
Have you ever seen your most important tasks being put off until later
and then later and later, while you are getting busy with many not so
important activities? Did you hope that you might have more time and
better mood in the future to start the task and do it properly? Does
an approaching deadline mean a crisis for you? Do you keep hesitating
when making decisions?
If you often see yourself in such situations, then there is a big chance
that your life got under control of the procrastination habit. And those
situations are only the most explicit symptoms.
What Is It?
Basically, procrastination is putting off the things that you should
be doing now. This happens to all of us time after time. Yet, what makes
a big difference for your success is your ability to recognize procrastination
in its different forms, and to promptly take it under control, before
this bad habit steals your opportunities, damages your career, or destroys
your relationships.
Causes of Procrastination
 What
are typical causes of procrastination? Here are a few of the most common
situations to consider.
It can be as simple as:
- waiting for the right mood
- waiting for the right time.
Then look at the way you organize your work. You may notice things
like:
- lack of clear goals;
- underestimating the difficulty of the tasks;
- underestimating the time required to complete the tasks;
- unclear standards for the task outcomes;
- feeling as the tasks are imposed on you from outside; and
- too ambiguous tasks.
And there are also many connections with:
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