Disease- Procrastination; Symptoms- Laziness, or putting off things for tomorrow. Then how to treat procrastination disease? Let’s understand the root cause of it. Thought and beliefs are always on autopilot mode. It avoids pain and seeks pleasure. For example, to write a book one has to invest countless weekends and hundreds of hours of brainstorming or research to transform an idea into a book. It needs a lot of sacrifices. It contains pain and struggle
A pain can stall your book writing project and you’ll postpone it without any reason. This will then cause disease procrastination. Until you are aware that it’s a trick of your mind and want you to seek pleasure and avoid pain.
What is the cure for procrastination?
You can keep on adding excitement to your work to avoid this trap. It will help you to set your thought and beliefs for success and also overcome the problem of procrastination.
Another way to avoid this trap is to convert your project into pieces. Focus on one piece at a time and treat yourself with gifts or a feast once you accomplish that piece.
Here, you’ll relate pain with pleasure at every milestone of your work, and secondly, it will be delivered in a sprint instead of the whole project without adding any pressure on you (pain).
Learn the Art of Managing Procrastination
There are two more ways to manage procrastination effectively. First, convert your work into a challenge for example telling your friend that if you did not finish the project on a specified date then you will arrange a feast for him/her in the town’s best hotel. The second way to finish your project fast is that pay someone huge fees and engage the schedule with them to complete it, the more the amount, the more the responsibility. Managing procrastination is an art and one has to use various strategies to tackle it.
Treat the disease procrastination by using the above insights.
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About the author
Manoj Sonawane is an author, business storyteller & education strategist. He had several publications at the national and international levels to his credit. He is on a mission to transform over one million lives into successful lives in the next five years through his writing, books, and teaching.
