5 Tips on How to Deal With Procrastination

There are many different on how to deal with procrastination. But it can be really benign. Do you hear yourself saying "I'll clean out the garage, uh.... next week..."? We could get away with that case, but it can be more serious, especially when it affects your professional and personal deadlines. It affects your performance, especially when you cram your way to finish your work before deadline: sometimes the output can be of low quality. This is actually true to most of us online marketers.

Everyone procrastinates once in a while, even the most focused and productive people do it. But if it starts to occur more often than it should be, then you are slowly turning into a lazy couch potato. the feeling is always accompanied by being anxious, guilty, and even depressed. When this happens, you have to consider looking for professional help. And for those who find themselves bitten by this lazy bug, here a five tips on how to deal with your procrastination.

1.) Take it one step at a time. Elephants eat their food one take at a time. When you work, you should also do the same. Finish one task at a time. Do not be overwhelmed with the fact that you have to finish tons of work and do not overwhelm yourself with too much work.

2.) Limit yourself with each task. Always say to yourself that you have to finish returning phone calls within an hour, or you will finish writing a page of essay within 30 minutes. Much better if you can put a timer beside you. Do this and you will just be amazed on how you can do things fast!

3.) Make your self talk in a positive note. Instead of saying "I gotta..." or "I have to...", scrape it out and replace it with "I choose to..." and you have to recognize that you chose to do it. Because if you did not choose it, the do not do it in the first place.

4.) Make appointments with yourself. This could be administrative work, such as paying up bills or doing the groceries, or it can be a pleasure time such as catching up with a good book or pamper yourself with a massage. Whatever it is, treat it like how you treat an appointment with a human being (not that you aren't).

5.) One of the things that you can do on how to deal with procrastination is to spare 15 minutes of your time each day to check on the calendar and gather the things that needs to be done for tomorrow. That way you could be able to plan ahead for the next day.

Those are the 5 tips I can share on how to deal with procrastination. It may take time to actually get used to this tips but when you already are familiar with it, you will just be surprised on how productive you are, more than what you can actually think of yourself. If you are an online marketer and you can follow these tips on how to here is a good link that will teach you how to get more MLM leads.

Juan R. is an Entrepreneur Online on the side while keeping up as a Communications student. He loves to do online business, as well as travel, music and food. Get to know him more with his personal/business blog, JuanRamirezOnline.com [http://juanramirezonline.com]

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