Procrastination is a really bad habit to get used to, it always sneaks up on us when we are working, when you hear a notification from your phone or when you are full of boredom. Procrastination stops us from reaching our full potential and today I will show you how to cure procrastination!
Just for a heads up, this post is going to be really long. I will provide you with steps you can take to cure your procrastination whether it is for developing or studying
Note: I will not be adding any steps that are to only help some people, all of these are guaranteed to help you with studying, or developing.
What is procrastination?
Procrastination is a habit of delaying a project, homework or anything work related even routines, procrastination can be caused from lack of motivation and being bored from the topic you are working on, for example studying is boring and that’s why I don’t want to study.
Getting into this habit more and more can lower your success rate by a lot, and eventually you will end up being a failure.
Anyways enough reading, let’s get motivated!
- Breaking down time
This one is a really important way to cure your procrastination, let’s say you have to study for 30 minutes, going for 30 minutes straight will lead you to less than 30 minutes. A way to work 30 minutes is splitting them with breaks for example every 10 minutes, you get a 5 minute break and it repeats and repeats until it is 30 minutes, in each you work on a small task
Here’s how it works: If you tell yourself you are going to work for 3 - 5 hours straight you will get distracted simply but, if you had to work 10 minutes on a small task, your expectancy becomes higher and more expectancy means more work and less procrastinating
- Low-Priority Tasks
Setting your task to less than you are able to do.
For example, if you wanted to work on your project for 30 minutes every day, you usually would skip some days, the reasoning for this is if you don’t have time to work 30 minutes every day.
Lowering your expectations to 2 minutes or 4 minutes a day makes it seem more easier so you are more likely motivated to do it, by lowering your expectations you are most likely to overpass your time more than usual as you think you have more time to do it
- Parkingson’s law
Wiki: Parkinson's law - Wikipedia
according to Parkinson’s law , “if someone is given a week to complete a task should really only take them a day to finish, they will often end up unnecessarily stretching out the task, so that it will take them the whole week to complete it.”
Overcoming Parkinson’s law is one of the best things to do!
You can force yourself to use Parkinson’s law by making a deadline or a release date for your game, this HUGELY gives you more motivation than usual!
For example: I am making a game and I am going to make a release date for it, let’s say I want to release it in one month but I end up finishing it half a month, this makes me stretch it out to a month!
This is a massive part of curing motivation and you won’t learn this entirely from one day.
- Avoiding Distractions
Distractions are a massive part in procrastination, removing distractions permanently is almost impossible to do, so the best thing to do is minimize distractions at your house or go to the library or the nearest coffee shop
Turning on Airplane mode and Do not disturb is a way to avoid distractions, make a place where there are no distractions, like a work desk. If your home isn’t a good place for working, I recommend going to a library
- Self Discipline
Disciplining yourself is a big part of curing your procrastination
One way to learn self discipline is to start small, practice daily, increase
This is a huge topic I can not cover in here but I have a video that explains it very well!
Link: Self-Discipline | Why It’s Important & How to Master Self-Control - YouTube
- What makes up motivation
The equation of motivation is really simple, and all of the steps increase expectancy, value, impulsiveness and delay
