Procrastination ….

At this very moment procrastination is affecting my work and plans heavily. Avoidance of doing a task that needs to be completed before a certain deadline is the simple meaning of procrastination. It could be habitual or intentional delay of starting/ completing a task while knowing it might cause negative consequences. Do I suffer from it? YES. BIG TIME.

So knowing I have issues of procrastination, finally I decided to analyse why I do procrastinate tasks. Here are few that comes to my mind;

1. Dealing with multiple responsibilities at a time and have a high rate of switching between tasks; studies, meetings/courses, childcare, work, household, are some.
2. Unavailability of resources to start/continue tasks; material and intangible resources.
3. Occurrences of unexpected events; childcare, sick children.
4. Delaying without any reason at all.

Understanding the consequences, I now make an effort to reduce procrastination. Some of the new habits I am attempting to include in my daily routines are,

• List the tasks
• Prioritise the tasks
• Use reminder apps on the phone
• Plan tasks
• When in difficulty of starting/ continuing a task, move to a different section.

I do notice a slight improvement in my work, hoping to improve it further. Let’s see the progress in a while. I will come back to this post and update in a couple of weeks.