How procrastination affects time management? (7 tips to overcome procrastination).

What is procrastination?

Procrastination is an act of postponing tasks because of short-time pleasures. Procrastination affects our time management and wastes our time.

Reasons for procrastination:

1. Lack of interest: The lack of interest in a particular work makes us lazy.
2. Pleasures: Our mind always seeks instant gratification or pleasure.
3. Lack of patience: The lack of patience also makes us lazy.
4. Conflicts: Outside or inside conflicts are responsible for procrastination.

How does procrastination affect your performance?

1. When we procrastinate work and rushing to complete it at the deadline then it can leads to lower quality of work.
2. It decreases our confidence.
3. It decreases our productivity.
4. When we delay our important work and do it at the last minute then it increases stress.
5. It decreases our productivity.
6. When we become lazy it affects our health.
7. It harm our reputation at workplace.
8. It can limit our potential.

How to overcome procrastination:

1. Do exercise daily. It keeps you energetic whole day.
2. Practice mindfulness.
3. Discover your passion and work according to it.
4. Enjoy your work and give your 100% in it.
5. Increase your potential.
6. Always ready to learn new skills.
7. Life is very important. So make it meaningful and interesting.

Smart work and time management:

1. Do that thing or work that is the most important in your life at this point.
2. Do mind-mapping and plan your life according to it.
3. Maintain your day planning in the morning and work accordingly the whole day.
4. Set realistic goals.
5. Make your will power strong.

7 Quotes on time:

1. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.— Leo Tolstoy
2. The trouble is, you think you have time.— Buddha
3. Lost time is never found again.— Benjamin Franklin
4. The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.— Albert Einstein
5. Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’, is like saying, ‘I don’t want to’. — Lao Tzu
6. Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.— Leonardo da Vinci
7. Time is the justice that examines all offenders. — William Shakespeare

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