How To Destroy Procrastination

If we want to become more productive, we must first destroy procrastination. Procrastination is the biggest obstacle many of us face when working towards our goals. It’s power only grows the longer we wait.

To help destroy procrastination, there are a few practical things we can do. This post will provide 5 tips to help you beat procrastination once and for all.

How To Destroy Procrastination – Just Start

Here’s a paradox for you. The easiest yet the most difficult thing you can do to destroy procrastination is to just start. Starting is the simplest solution to beat procrastination. Once you begin, things start to fall into place. You begin to build momentum. From there, the rest is plain sailing.

The difficult part is finding the energy and motivation to actually get started. That’s where the following tips will help.

How To Destroy Procrastination – Remember Your Reason

Your reason is your why. Remembering your why will help you to understand why this activity is important to you. Your why is your motivation, and that can fuel you to actually begin working. You can use the following questions to help remember your why:

• What is the importance of doing this task?
• What is the importance of doing this task right now?
• Why is this task important to you?
• How is the outcome of this task going to benefit you in the future?

These questions will help you spark your motivation, which will give you some energy. It’s important to now use this energy to get started.

How To Destroy Procrastination – Get Motivated

Using your why as motivation is great and will often work. But sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it’s not as powerful as motivation from an outside source. If remembering your why didn’t help, this will.

You may struggle to begin because you don’t feel motivated to start. If that’s the case, watch some motivational videos. Listen to inspirational music. Get pumped up and ready to work.

Exercise will help with this, but only if you push yourself. A brisk walk or light jog won’t get you pumped. A quick HIIT workout or 100 pushups will.

The aim is to get so pumped up and ready to work that nothing else seems appealing. That the only thing you want to do is the thing that you’re procrastinating.

Again, use this motivation to just start.

How To Destroy Procrastination – Add Accountability

You’ve had the carrot (motivation), now for the stick (accountability). Accountability will almost force you to act. It will force you to make progress towards the thing you’re procrastinating.

Is there a way that you can add accountability to whatever you’re doing?

Beeminder is a service that provides financial accountability. If you don’t make progress towards your goals, the site will charge you.

What are the consequences for not acting, both in the future and right now?

When considering consequences, we’re most motivated by the things that are immediate and have an instant impact on our lives.

Understanding this and having a form of accountability will prompt you to work. You’ll know that if you don’t begin working right now, something ‘bad’ will happen.

How To Destroy Procrastination – Eliminate Distractions

Distractions also kill productivity and are a massive aid to procrastination. By eliminating distractions, you give yourself the best possible chance to begin working.

Getting distracted once means you’re more likely to get distracted again. Procrastination feeds procrastination. One distraction can lead you down a distraction rabbit hole. Before you know it, you’ve wasted several hours.

But eliminating distractions can help you to destroy procrastination. Install website blockers. Put your phone in a different room. Give yourself no other option but to work. If there is nothing else that you can do but work and focus on the thing at hand, then that’s what you’ll do.

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