No human being is perfect. Each and every individual would suffer from one setback or the other. These setbacks lead to diversion from our goals. I would call procrastination as a very bad habit , unless one realises it and acts on it , he is sure to suffer from difficulties to achieve success.
No person can escape from procrastination. But a person can control procrastination by discovering it and doing the right thing which needs to be done at the particular moment rather than doing what is alluring to the mind.The mind of man tends to diverge towards various interests. Every human being in this planet loves to do what is easy to do and does what his mind is attracted to. One solution I suggest to avoid procrastination is to do what you decide on immediately. Acting on the important job at hand immediately,even a small step towards it, will make the other thoughts to vanish. Procrastination can also be controlled by prioritising your work. Say, a thought arises in your mind to do something which is not important in the present circumstances( say watching tv). But you have to complete an important project of your company which is very crucial. You can avoid procrastination by prioritising the thoughts based on your goals. You assign massive pain to watching tv and great pleasure to the project work. Visualising the pain and pleasure will be more effective. But what if frequent thoughts of an interesting program on tv disturb your attention to the work in hand? A method similar to the one used by the famous martial artist "Bruce Lee" can help you. Mr. Bruce Lee used to write down the negative thoughts that ran through his mind on a piece of paper and used to tear the paper into hundred pieces. This used to give him the much needed focus for practicing martial arts. One can try the same. These methods can be used in bringing the mind to a static state and help in doing the important jobs in hand, rather than postponing it.
Tell me about your views on procrastination.Please do leave your comments.
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Good write up.
procrastination is a very bad habit. You need to develop a strong mind devoid of emotional baggages to get out of this problem. It is an emotions related issue.
jayadev
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