- For starters, in getting rid of negative thoughts, use timers – digital or physical ones – for starting as well as stopping projects.
- Enable browser and mobile apps to block distracting websites.
- Start with either your most significant or smallest procrastination problem. Concentrate on your most damaging or least important area of procrastination first. (You probably already know which one you’d prefer to tackle and why that choice should work for you.)
- Compliment yourself whenever you finish a task. In getting rid of negative thoughts, it should be out loud! (You’ll feel silly at first, but it will have a definite effect on your confidence and feelings of self-respect if you persist.)
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Go smaller. If a task still overwhelms you, break it down into even smaller components. (And praise yourself after each one is completed!)
- Anticipate and plan for curves in the road. Do you constantly get derailed when your sweetie calls? When your favorite show comes on TV at 2 p.m.? If you check Facebook, meaning to spend five minutes there and only close off two hours later?
Whatever the most familiar and repetitive road bumps that cause distraction or flip you back into procrastination, anticipate them and plan for them. Install a Facebook-blocking app and enable it during working hours. Record that shows you love to watch and enjoy it later. Limit your call with your sweetie to five minutes and arrange a time to chat then.
- Set regular work hours and keep them. Knowing you will knock off at six o’clock, come hell or high water, can help you keep your attention on getting things done.
- Realize that the more tired you grow, the easier you’ll find it to procrastinate if you’re getting rid of negative thoughts. (Another good reason for keeping reasonable, set office hours.)
- Recognize procrastination in all its forms. Be ruthlessly honest with yourself, and you may realize you procrastinate in other ways too – like cleaning the bathroom instead of calling a challenging and hostile client you plan to fire.
- Banish fear with knowledge. Procrastination and fear go hand-in-glove. Recognize that you’ll never be an expert at something until you practice – and just go do it! Identify what you are afraid of, and work on busting that fear before you beat yourself up for getting rid of negative thoughts.
People who procrastinate are also more likely to indulge in negative self-talk, so watch out for that and make sure you say only positive or realistic-objective things to yourself.
Procrastination and distraction also go together, and that’s all part and parcel of modern-day times.
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