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- 2. If you continuedoing exactly what your doing right now, where would you be in five years?
- 3. The secret issimple. Nothing happens without hard work. The lazy don’t succeed.
- 4. Have you evercome up with below situations • I will do it tomorrow. I’ll start next week, next month, next year • When I have more time I’ll do it. • Have you ever spent more time worrying about a task than it took to do the task?
- 6. Procrastination personalities Thesepeople feel there are rigid standards about how thing ought to be done and they fear they will fail • Self-Doubt
- 7. Procrastination personalities Thisperson avoids activities that will cause them distress, discomfort or anxiety, so tensions mount because of this avoidance • Discomfort
- 8. Procrastination personalities Theperson feels guilt over tasks undone, but rather than correct the original lack of action continues to procrastinate in order to not face up to the guilt feelings • Guilt - Driven
- 9. Procrastination personalities Theperson has procrastinated so many times, it becomes an ingrained response. The person no longer thinks about why they do it, they feel it's just a part of themselves • Habitual
- 11. Procrastination at work •Difficult or unpleasant The task is difficult or unpleasant so you either don’t want to do or don’t know how to do it
- 12. • Small task Procrastinationat work The task is a small one, it won’t take long and can wait until later.
- 13. • Huge task Procrastinationat work The task is huge, it’s difficult to know where to begin
- 14. • Low Priority Procrastinationat work The task is low priority, you will do it at last moment
- 15. • Delay thetask Procrastination at work If you delay the task, it might not need doing at all
- 16. • Run outof work Procrastination at work You don’t want to run out of work; you might look expendable
- 17. • More urgent Procrastinationat work You do your best work under pressure so let’s wait for the task to become a more urgent matter
- 19. Costs associated withprocrastination • Poor quality work Procrastinating on important tasks means that you have less time in which to complete them, which invariably leads to rushed poor quality work
- 20. Costs associated withprocrastination • Time Pressure Leaving things until the last minute results in anxiety and time pressure as you go all out to complete tasks before the deadline
- 21. Costs associated withprocrastination • Failure to achieve important goals This can be one of the most depressing and frustrating aspects of procrastination
- 22. Costs associated withprocrastination • Missed opportunities Procrastination causes you to miss wonderful opportunities that you never even consider or explore. This can lead to guilt and regret as you realize what you are missing
- 23. Costs associated withprocrastination • Waste of the present Wasting the present is probably the biggest cost of procrastination.
- 24. Is procrastination adisease?
- 25. Is procrastination adisease? • Physiological Roots of procrastination mostly surrounds the role of the prefrontal cortex
- 26. Is procrastination adisease? • Physiological Prefrontal cortex area of the brain is responsible for executive brain functions such as planning, impulse control, attention, and acts as a filter by decreasing distracting energy from other brain regions Damage or low activation in this area can reduce an individual's ability to filter out distracting energy, ultimately resulting in poorer organization, a loss of attention and increased procrastination
- 27. Procrastination Survey • Atleast 95% of us procrastinate at least occasionally and about 15-20% of us do it consistently and problematically.
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- 29. Ways To PreventProcrastination • Physical Exercise Food
- 30. Ways To PreventProcrastination • Schedule your time in smaller increments If your time frame is too far off in the future, deadlines becomes generalities. There is a difference between saying, 'I'll write one chapter a week' and saying, 'I'll write four chapters a month'
- 31. Ways To PreventProcrastination • Create hard-and-fast deadlines Instead of thinking you will work on your project for three hours every morning, determine when you want certain tasks completed If the boss hands you an assignment, she/he doesn't say, 'Work on this each day', she/he says, 'Have this on my desk by next Friday'
- 32. • Map outall of your deadlines on one calendar That way, you'll see that your tasks are all interrelated. If your task today affects your task tomorrow, you will experience an "urgency to act" Ways To Prevent Procrastination
- 33. • Switch upyour environment If your working environment makes you want to snuggle up and take a nap, change it immediately. Ways To Prevent Procrastination
- 34. • Hang outwith other people who don't procrastinate Hang out with people who inspire you. They'll infuse some of their drive and spirit into your work ethic. Ways To Prevent Procrastination
- 35. • People whoare already living your dream Connect with people who have already achieved your dream and seek advice on how they accomplished it. Ways To Prevent Procrastination
- 36. • Announce yourgoals to others If your friends and colleagues know about your projects, they are bound to ask you about them on a regular basis - serving as an accountable reminder. Ways To Prevent Procrastination
- 37. • Eliminate distractions Eliminate the distractions that forcing you to procrastinate. Ways To Prevent Procrastination For example, if Facebook is causing you to procrastinate, deactivate it for a short period of time. If email is the problem, turn off your automatic notifications.
- 38. • Force yourselfto keep going When you feel your interest become weaker, put one foot in front of the other. Ways To Prevent Procrastination
- 39. • Reward yourself WaysTo Prevent Procrastination If you spend too much time on something, you may start to resent it. Realize that hard work should be rewarded with a nice meal at your favorite restaurant or a trip to the movies.
- 40. • When yourplan is failing, RE-PLAN Some goals weren't meant to be achieved then take a step back and decide what it is exactly that you want to achieve and what steps you should take to get there Ways To Prevent Procrastination
- 41. • Stop waitingfor the perfect time Ways To Prevent Procrastination
- 42. • Keep inmind that your work space affects your productivity ... Ways To Prevent Procrastination
- 43. • Perfectionism Ways ToPrevent Procrastination Don’t be perfectionism, give you self dead lines, it is better to have some thing up there 80% then have nothing up there