Making Good Use of Your Procrastination Hours
Procrastination is such a difficult thing to avoid especially if we don’t like the task that we have to complete. So we procrastinate and cram up when the deadline for the task is coming. This is also true for simple tasks such as household chores. We sweep the floor the following day instead of finishing it today. What happens is, the floor gets dirtier and more uninviting to do the task. The task also gets heavier.
Things have been written or advised here on how to avoid procrastination or how to overcome it. I’ll add up another one which is to make your procrastinating hours useful for you. When you procrastinate for a task, do something worthwhile. We have that attitude of doing nothing when we procrastinate for a difficult task. Instead of staying idle for hours, why not do lighter tasks to lighten your schedule. By end of the day, you only have one task left for you to do.
Doing so will also keep you active physically or mentally. That will help you get motivated and energized to do the task you’ve been avoiding to do. Because sometimes laziness just gets in the way of starting your task and you just need a nudge to start doing it. So doing a lighter task might get you energized or motivated to do a heavier one.