The Procrastination Cure: 21 Proven Tactics For Conquering Your Inner Procrastinator, Mastering Your Time, And Boosting Your Productivity!

by Damon Zahariades

Procrastination has traditionally been defined as postponing taking action on something in favor of doing something else.

It fails to recognize circumstances in which putting things off is sensible and pragmatic.

the act of deferring action on something when taking earlier action would arguably have been a better decision.

But the overarching reason we put things off is because something else promises to be more gratifying within a shorter time frame.

We prefer present rewards to future rewards. This is the case even if the latter are greater in scope.

The trick is to make the benefits of taking action more immediate.

The biggest challenge in working on a task you consider to be boring, difficult, or unappealing, is starting on it. But a strange things happens once you start: the anxiety and dread associated with it rapidly declines.

Moreover, once you started working on it, you probably found it easy to continue doing so.

Taking action causes the discomfort and guilt associated with procrastination to evaporate. It also erases the stress and worry of doing the task. And just as importantly, it gives us the momentum we need to continue working until the task has been completed.