Overcoming Procrastination and Laziness - Oloye Fakunle Oyesanya

…Never postpone till tomorrow, what you can do today

In psychology, procrastination refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of low-priority, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time.

Some psychologists cotr such behaviour as  a mechanism of coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision. Other psychologists indicate that anxiety is just as likely to get people to start working early as late and the focus should be imoulsiveness. That is, anxiety will cause people to delay only if they are impulsive.

Probably all of us have sometimes put off starting a difficult or unpleasant task until later. This is called procrastination. Beating procrastination is one of the key elements in keeping your time management efficient.

Procrastination is counterproductive and delaying because work is being left undone; therefore we really need to overcome it.

Procrastination is also an end result of laziness: to overcome procrastination, you must stop laziness first.

 Laziness is an attitude thinking that we have so much time ahead in achieving certain things or realizing dreams. We set those dreams aside and enjoy our time to the fullest.

While this may be a healthy attitude, some people take relaxation to another level. They procrastinate and set their planning to another day until that day comes too late. They suddenly find themselves eventually with no clear direction in their lives. They still depend on other people for financial support and otherwise. They live in shame, but still don't find the initiative to do something about it. This is laziness in its most basic and blatant form.

Overcome procrastination by breaking through your mental wall.

Result of Procrastination:

Stress
Sense of guilt
Crisis
Loss of personal productivity
Inability to meet responsibilities

Procrastination may result in  dress,  a 

sense of guilt, and crisis, severe loss of personal productivity, as well as social disapproval for not meeting responsibilities or commitments.  These feelings combined may promote further procrastination. While it is regarded as normal for people to procrastinate to some degree, it becomes a problem when it impedes normal functioning. Chronic procrastination may be a sign of underlying psychological disorders.

Such procrastinators may have difficulty seeking support due to stigmatic beliefs that task-aversion is caused by laziness, low willpower, or low ambition.

Procrastination and laziness rob us not only of productivity and effectiveness, but also of something far greater: Purpose. In addition to regaining productivity by beating these disempowering habits, you can regain direction in your life.

Most people are lazy because they don't know how to go about accomplishing their dreams. This is because they lack clear GOALS in life and ability to achieve them.  Without goals, there is no MOTIVATION. 

They paralyze themselves with an anger that's been turned inwards. For a life that is productive, effective and purposeful, it is essential to have goals.
As human beings, we are motivated by two forces: Fear and desire, or pain and pleasure.

We subconsciously move away from something we do not want, something that causes us pain, and towards something we do want, something that provides some form of pleasure. And by understanding this basic aspect of human psychology, you can gain leverage over yourself to get into action with effortless ease.

Laziness is the enemy of productivity. If we were lazy, there is no way we could accomplish meaningful things. We may procrastinate doing things, or – even if we do them – we may do them only half-heartedly.

There is no way we can produce high-quality results that way.

How do we stop laziness?

There is a better way. By working smarter, not harder.  Here is the solution for overcoming laziness and being able to finally stop procrastinating. Firstly, Do you find yourself asking, “Why am I so lazy?” Do you have trouble with overcoming procrastination and getting into action, even when you clearly know it’s in your best interest to do so? Would you feel better if you could once and for all, finally stop being lazy and put procrastinating behind you forever?

Overcoming Laziness To Get Things Done

Take action

If you don’t feel like reading, read. If you don’t feel like writing, write. If you don’t feel like doing exercise, do it. In short, action is the best motivation. The only thing that stops us from getting sucked into a task is not doing it, so do it now! Some are afraid to start because of the fear of making mistakes or because of failure from several attempts.

Confidence

Confidence in yourself and the ability to accept that “yes, I can”. Once you have accepted to take up a task, your subconscious faculty goes to work immediately.

Take one bite at a time

If you try to do everything together, you lose motivation to do anything at all. Therefore, it’s best to split a bigger task into smaller ones and concentrate on only one part at a time. The less formidable the work, the more you’ll enjoy doing it.

Remove the distractions

When being lazy, we are often attracted to the distractions. Bloggers are found browsing others’ blogs when they are supposed to be writing theirs, and students are found watching TV when they should be studying. These are all distractions that serve no good purpose. If you remove the distractions, for example, by disconnecting from the Internet and by locking the TV room, you’ll notice that it becomes easier to get back to the work.

Find motivation
Why are you doing work? It is easy to forget the purpose of work with time. Remind yourself of how important your work is for you, for your personal satisfaction, for your life, family and so on. If you feel you are not clear about the purpose of what you are doing, it’s time to recap the goals you set down when you started.

Reward yourself

Discipline and schedules are all good and well, but do we want to become robots? This the very thing we dread and that is what leads us to lose motivation. You’ll be more enthusiastic to complete a task when you know you are going to reward yourself at the end.

You should aim at staying on the top of the wave in order to overcome procrastination for good.