Procrastination is saying, “Oh, I will do it later.”
Here are two scenarios:
1) You have to send an email, but you don’t really want to do it. You open the email and type something, then toggle to another tab and do something else. You go back to the email and trudge through writing a few more sentences. Finally you get up and tell yourself you will finish it tonight. Spoiler alert: You won’t. You just spent two hours on the computer, and you didn’t even finish.
Or there is this scenario:
2) You sit down at your computer. Only one tab is open: your email. You stare at the screen, composing the email in your head, then you start writing. You hit send and check the clock. It has only been 30 minutes and now you are free to do other things.
Guess which scenario was an example of procrastinating?
Yup, the first one.
So now that you know what procrastinating is, how do you combat it?
The answer is very simple. Just do it.
Yup. It is that simple. You might have thought I would give you a list of things to do, but in truth., if you just do it, you are eliminating procrastination.
Of course there are other things you can do that help, and I will share those at the end of this post, but I need you to understand that simply getting started and not ‘lollygaging’ saves you so much time.
Example:
Option A) You spend 2 hours going back and forth between an email and texting your friends.
Or
Option B) You spend 30 minutes finishing an email, then you have lots of time to text with your friends without being weighed down by a task.
