FOLLOW THIS FLOWCHART TO OVERCOME PROCRASTINATION
A look at strategies to
prioritise better and become much more productive
Psychologist Patrick Keelan
has a series of questions to ask yourself when you feel stuck with your work.
These four questions can act as a flowchart to help you beat procrastination
and be productive again. For this exer cise, it doesn't matter what type of
procrastinator you are. The four boxes of the flow chart are:
1 Have I made an action plan?
Action plans provide a
proven-effective antidote to procrastination.
2 Are the actions in my plan small enough?
Make the action plan small
enough and you're less likely to procrastinate.
3 Have I used the five-minute rule when my motivation to take
action is low?
The boost in motivation you
receive from taking action for five minutes will often result in you continuing
beyond five minutes until you've completed the action.
4 Have I addressed any rules driving my procrastination behaviour?
If you still find
procrastination to be an issue, it may be worth examining any rules or
`underlying assumptions', which may be leading you to choose to procrastinate.
If your answer to any of
the boxes is no, you head back to a previous one to flesh things out.
You may already know about
these concepts, like, to start doing any work for five minutes breaks the
procrastination rut. And breaking down tasks to a `for dummies' level is an old
trick too. But these productivity techniques work when used together with
Keelan's approach of combining them into a if-then flowchart .
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