Procrastination - There Is Nothing Wrong With Having A List Of Fun Things To Do
Having a to-do list is a great help to get things done.
We each have attitudes and techniques towards getting things done which have been perfected over many years. These enable us to delay, procrastinate and generally put off till tomorrow what we really know we should have handed in yesterday.
Procrastination comes in two basic flavors: either the problem is that the task we really need to be focussed on is unpleasant or seemingly unrewarding, or we feel unable to achieve the task effectively because it is beyond our perceived abilities.
To combat our procrastination, there are a wealth of organizers on the market today, including diaries, notebooks, goal setting software for your computer and large fancy graphic organizers. The belief often is, though, that simply owning an organizer will magically transform you into an organized person. That somehow, having a to do list will go a long way to getting the jobs done, even without your help! Such is the power of persuasion.
There is nothing wrong with having a list of fun things to do, rather than doing the task in hand. But if the issue is that the main task seems unpleasant or un-enjoyable to us, then we need to address two aspects of the problem.
The first is to bear in mind very vividly the negative consequences of not getting things done.
The second is to provide ourselves with a carrot - some kind of reward that will prove to be a worthwhile incentive and help us complete the task quicker.
For example, you could promise yourself that the cup of coffee that you were about to make will have to wait until after you have achieved a certain proportion of the main task. Set yourself a clear and realistic goal, and write it down.
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Shafir Ahmad of http://www.ShafirAhmad.com is the author of "The Experts Guide to Managing Your Time".
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