10 Resources to Help Overcome Procrastination
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There’s an urge to start with a comment about putting off this post, but the joke’s been done to death. Unfortunately, there is a lot of truth in the quip. Those of us who procrastination problems tend to put off virtually everything that isn’t entertaining or essential for survival.
Here are links to 10 articles that address dealing with procrastination. There’s overlap in the content, but if you’re like me, you need all the reinforcement you can get.
- Overcoming procrastination – the causes, the forms and solutions.
- Overcoming Procrastination: Getting Organized to Complete the Dissertation – five steps for dealing with procrastination on a big project.
- Procrastination – Procrastination is only remotely related to time management, (procrastinators often know exactly what they should be doing, even if they cannot do it). From Cal Poly
- Overcoming Procrastination In Your Home Business – why does it happen and what can we do about it?
- Procrastination – on-line self-help book
- Overcoming Procrastination and How to Start and Complete Any Project in Five Easy Steps
- Ten Tips to Help You Overcome Procrastination – work through the tips one at a time.
- Get Rid of the Guilt: Eight Steps to Overcoming Procrastination and Taking Back Your Life
- Overcoming Procrastination Now – some exercises to help
- Overcoming Procrastination – some tricks you can use to overcome procrastination.
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Comments
Thanks Ian for the great tips.
I’ve found what really works for me in overcoming procrastination is to create some non-negotiable rules for yourself. These are absolutes.
“Every day I will jog for thirty minutes no matter what.”
“I will not drink alcohol for the next eight weeks.”
“I will never talk that way to that person again.”
Share these commitments with your coach/partner and select others. Remember… if nothing changes (attitudes, decisions, behaviours), nothing changes (reality).
So commit to real change with some ‘you’ rules.
Craig
Well, what an enlightening post. I never thought of the causes of procrastination until I came acrosshttp://www.stop-procrastination.org. Might wanna check it out.