- **providing slots in your schedule** to devote time to one task
only. These are all ways that allow you to get more done in an organized way - something
similar
to the way a manager and their worker go through tasks that need to be done.
All in all, there is one main factor that leads you to procrastinate on your tasks.
When choosing what tasks to undertake, you tend to chose the easiest and not the one
that rewards you the most. This mean that complex and long projects tend to fall down
to the bottom of your to-do list and spread out far longer than they should. You do this
because your human brain has low tolerance for frustration, so it naturally picks activities
that don't cause frustration - something that you can easily associate to more complex tasks
that need to be tackled.
And the thing is, sometimes that frustration is not in the nature of the task itself, but
on how negatively you portray what you have to do. Most decisions can be reduced to a
choice of four simple actions: drop it, do it, delegate it or defer it in time. The indecision,
tied to the negative concept you give the task, is
what makes you procrastinate on doing something. And sometimes, all you have to do to push
forward on your progress is not aiming for perfect results but rather practicing [**satisficing]
-** a decision-making approach that aims for acceptable or good enough results, rather
than optimal solutions.
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