~Mehul Rawat

What is the drag? What is procrastination?
When we decide to do something from 9 AM in the morning today and we don’t start until the next day’s 9 PM.
When we plan on doing something but we just cannot start doing it!!
That thing is on our mind all the time, giving us stress and we know we need to do it, but we are not able to start, or maybe, we are able to start but we cannot keep doing it!!
Why does this happen?
-that task might be the one we need to do but we don’t want to do.
-that task might be very boring, or uninteresting.

So, how to do something that we need to do but don’t want to do?
How to stay focused on a task which is very boring and uninteresting?

How to overcome procrastination?

• Eat the frog
  ‘Frog’ is that one thing on your to-do list that you have the least interest in doing, it is that thing that you know you’ll procrastinate.
  So ‘Eat the frog’ means, do that task that you hate the most, first.
  Do that task that you think you’ll postpone, first.

• Positive-negative thinking
  Keep on thinking about the positive effects of completing that task and the negative effects of not completing that task. It will help you realize the importance of that task.

• Take the first step
  Just start, no matter how long you do it, just start doing it.
  Something is better than nothing.
  The collective of small efforts can sometimes yield great results.

• Constant external reminder
  Find out a way to keep yourself externally reminded about that task.
  Sometimes a little push can help you overcome that barrier, that inertia in your mind.

Tomorrow never comes until it’s too late.
If we do not do what we cannot do, that’s not a problem, but if we do not do what we can do then we are a disaster.
Remember, it’s always “YOU AGAINST YOU”!

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