Hello everyone, welcome to Skillopedia, the place to learn skills for the real world.
Well you're with me Niharika. Now very often people ask us the question, how soon can you
do this? And you're like uh...not now. Well that not now becomes never. So delaying work,
pushing work, slacking, running away from work of just facing work when you have no
option, when it's just unavoidable, well that's procrastination. So do you procrastinate too
much? Well do you push things too much? And instead spend hours watching TV, surfing on
social media or listening to music? Well then success is quite a long way for you. To attain
your goals, it's important for you to overcome procrastination. So how do you do that? Well
that's what we are gonna learn today.
Well the very first step that you need to follow in order to overcome procrastination
is, just take the first step. Don’t look at the whole staircase, that's gonna make
you nervous. Just go ahead and take that first step. Well you know at times when we think
too far, we just end up saying to ourselves, oops this is difficult and you just shut down
yourself and give up. Well in order to achieve success, it's important for you to take that
very first step. Now this changes your mental state from being resistant to saying to yourself
that, oh yes I can do it. So the moment you achieve success by taking that first step,
you are more enthusiastic to take the second step. So this helps you to focus to finish
or to attain your goals or to finish your tasks. So it's important for you to take that
first step, focus, work towards it and then break the other steps to achieve success.
The second tip that I have for you is to eat the frog first, which means start your day
with the most difficult task. Now when you start your day, you have things lined up.
There are certain tasks which are really easy but there are some tasks which are so difficult
and you tend to fear them because there are a lot of responsibilities or a lot of issues
linked to it. So it's important for you to take the first step and just finish off the
most difficult task at the very start of the day. What happens next? The other tasks are
so much easier for you; you are super energized and super enthusiastic to attain your other
goals. so like I said, that eat the frog first, which means start your day by doing the most
difficult task, just accomplish it, get done with it and then move to the other task.
Well the third tip that I have for you in order to overcome procrastination is change
your environment. Well different environments have different impacts on your productivity.
So it's important for you to have a look at your environment. Like your work desk, do
you think your work desk or your work room is way too relaxing, you can just snuggle
up in a blanket. Well then you need to change it because a very relaxing environment is
gonna make you lazy and definitely not gonna motivate you to accomplish your difficult
jobs. So change your environment, have an environment which is very positive, that encourages
you to achieve success. Now it is also important for you to hang out with people who inspire
you. Now there are certain people that we come across who are so intelligent, who are
so motivating and inspiring. It’s good to have such people around you because these
people motivate you. These people tend to put that impact on you that, yes even I should
do something good in order to achieve success. So change your work environment as well as
start hanging out with positive people.
And the last tip that I have for you in order to overcome procrastination is, do not wait
for that perfect time. You know there are certain times when we set our goals but we
just don't take an action. We’re still waiting for that perfect time. We tend to tell ourselves
that uh... it's just not the right time. Maybe next week or maybe next month. Stop pushing
your work. Well just take that action because that perfect time is never gonna come. It’s
time for you to reclarify your goals. Now when we set goals for ourselves, there are
times we outgrow them. So reclarify your goals and share it with your friends, with your
colleagues or with your family members. Now the next time, these friends or family members
meet you, they will ask you that, hey how's it going? Are you still on with your goals?
Well that reminds you to take action and work towards your goals. So do not wait for that
perfect time, reclarify your goals and share it with everybody.
So this brings me to the end of this session today. Hope these tips are really useful to
you. So get a grip and just do it. Strategizing, planning, everything helps. But taking an
action is within you. So what are you waiting for? Just stop procrastinating and do it.
this will help you to attain success and I'll be back with a new session soon, till then
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