The Procrastination Blog

Steve Bressert, Ph.D. has written a very good article with simple and practical tips to beat procrastination.

He first asks you to define what type of procrastinator you are:

1. A constructive procrastinator; or
2. A destructive procrastinator; or
3. A constructive/destructive procrastinator.

Then he helps you identify your procrastination symptoms, and demonstrates how to determine the underlying cause of of your habit.

Lastly, Dr. Bressert shows how to develop an effective strategy against procrastination based on your own personal circumstances.

Alot of people who procrastinate are often overwhelmed at the size of certain tasks, or with getting certain things done, because it just seems like too much work, or that it’ll never be done in time.

You need to make these tasks seem doable.

To make tasks seem doable, and easy enough for you to get done, split tasks up into smaller tasks. You can then work on each of the smaller individual tasks until the whole task at hand is complete.

There are TWO types of Procrastinators: Which one are you?

1. The Relaxed Procrastinator:

If you’re the relaxed kind of procrastinator, you don’t procrastinate because you’re worried you won’t be able to get it done in time, or worried that you won’t be able to get it done at all, but you instead avoid certain tasks completely and just don’t care.

You like to focus on things that you enjoy. For example: You avoid doing homework, and just go out with friends and watch a movie, not giving a hoot about your homework.

Post It Notes can be very effective when it comes to getting things done. I’ll share with you a method I use all the time to get things done.

First of all, I’ll assume that you have some post it notes:

It’s very simple. Just write the tasks you want to get done on your post it notes, and stick them around your desk. When you’re done with a specific task, you can get rid of the post it note that pertains to that specific task. Remember to give each task its own individual post it note.