Procrastination: how to unlearning to save for tomorrow?

Everyone knows the saying: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." But in fact, most of us act quite the opposite, following the principle of Scarlett O "Hari:" I'll think about it tomorrow. " The desire to postpone unpleasant things for then is quite understandable: we try to protect ourselves from stress. But often procrastination becomes a serious problem.

For example, as an average student writes a diploma? First you need to turn on the computer. While he turns on, make yourself a cup of tea. But there is no sugar! We went to the store, bought sugar, made tea, went back to the computer. Opened the text editor and browser to find the information you need. Well, since you already went to the Internet, you need to check your mail and messages on social networks. Oh, what an interesting link was sent, but what is it there? And the tea has already cooled down, you need to do more ... Diploma? What diploma?

Familiar? We think, yes. When a particularly pleasant prospect looms before us (writing a diploma or a report, going to the doctor), we try to delay the moment of its offensive with all our might. As a result, emptiness is formed, free time, which must be filled with something. AND Instead of doing something useful, we are engaged in unimportant activities that do not require us to make significant efforts and concentration: drink tea, sharpen a pencil, write to the blog. This is procrastination.

Procrastination is a mechanism to combat the anxiety caused by the need to start or end a business or make an important but unpleasant decision. Until then, procrastinationis considered the norm, like any protective mechanism. But if you have caught yourself on the constant delays of doing things to the deadline, procrastination has become a normal state, and the quality of work leaves much to be desired - this is a sign that procrastination from the assistant, saving you from stress, has become your sworn enemy.

Procrastination can causepsychological and physiological problems. Prokrastiniruya, we feel a sense of guilt before themselves and other people (scientific adviser, boss, client, etc.). Productivity is falling, those around you are unhappy, because you do not fulfill the promised in time. Eventually Instead of protecting you from stress, procrastination causes new stress.

A health problems in procrastination due to the fact that, postponing the implementation of thethe deadline, you then try to do everything in one fell swoop in a very limited period of time. As a result, we have a lack of sleep, nervous and physical overexertion, and if you still forget to eat and keep working with coffee and energy, you are guaranteed health problems.

How to deal with procrastinations? Time management will help you - time management. Specialists in time management offer to rank all the cases for their importance and urgency. Based on these two criteria, four groups of cases:

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  important and non-urgent;
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  important and urgent;
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  unimportant and urgent;
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  unimportant and non-urgent.

Important and non-urgent cases are, in fact, ourgoals that make life meaningful. Important and urgent are urgent matters, crisis situations. Unimportant and urgent are trifles that seem urgent, but do not really affect life. And unimportant and non-urgent - these are the activities that are characterized by procrastination.

The most time should be given to important cases, both urgent and non-urgent. Unimportant and urgent matters are not so significant -to refuse them, of course, is not worth it, but priority should always be given to cases from the first two categories. And unimportant and non-urgent cases should be in the last place.

Even in the fight against procrastination, the approach "You can not change the situation - change your attitude to it". Procrastination is a consequence of the fact that we are afraid of the phrase "I must" as a fire, the responsibility scares us. Instead of "I must," "I must," say to yourself: "I do it of my own free will." They advise you to build your own schedule so that the central place in it is rest, with interruptions to business, and not vice versa, as it usually happens.

Well and not to do without planning of affairs and correct distribution of efforts. Procrastination can even become your assistant, if you use unimportant and non-urgent things as an aid to work. For example, surfing the YouTube site delayed the writing of this article, but helped to find a video illustration of it.