By Vaidehi Rawool
The deadline approaches you with the speed of light and with every inch that the minute hand gains, your brows knit even tighter. You make a resolute decision to open your laptop and finish the whole assignment off by pulling an all-nighter. Three hours later you find yourself on a social networking site whose window you left open the last time you used your laptop. The end result, with frayed nerves and brain cells in overdrive, you finish it seconds away from the deadline. After submitting it, you are filled with dread as to the quality, worry, guilt and a load of regret for putting it off till the last moment.
Most of the times we procrastinate not because we are lazy. There are various reasons for the same and some of you who procrastinate might not even know that you do it. If you keep waiting for the best time to start something, or you keep second guessing yourself in terms of the execution of the assignment. Sometimes people very under the wrong belief of working best under pressure, let the pressure build, so instead of doing the task at hand, you complete all the other tasks possible.
So how do you avoid procrastination?
Curb the urge to take a breather while working, try not to talk yourself into opening your social media account just for a minute when you are well aware that you might end up spending more than an hour on it.
Break the assignment into small parts. Usually it so happens that finishing something really big at one go seems very daunting. To avoid the same you can very well start small.
Be aware of the fact that you procrastinate, sometimes if not quite often. It’s imperative to look for the reasons as to why you procrastinate and then slowly try to eliminate them.
In the end it all drizzles down to staying focus and realising the ultimate goal. Make sure you prep yourself up and keep yourself motivated till you finish the task and you will be at the end before you even know it!