The next time you procrastinate, first determine what kind of procrastination you’re dealing with and find the real source.

After you have identified the type and source of procrastination, you now have many tools available that can help you deal with it once and for all.


• General advice

- Gently force yourself to make the first step.
- Use timeboxing.
- Don’t fight it, do other important things instead.

• Temporary low levels of energy

- Take a walk.
- Take a nap.
- Wait for your daily peak-productivity time.
- Come back to work when recharged. 

• Overworked or burnt-out

- Take a few days off.
- Limit work in progress.
- Sharpen the saw.

• Being in an irritated emotional state

- Take a walk or nap.
- Accept it.
- Talk to people.
- Listen to music.
- Come back to work when you calm down.

• Being in an irritated emotional state

- Take a walk or nap.
- Accept it.
- Talk to people.
- Listen to music.
- Come back to work when you calm down.

• You think the task is not your work

- Be happy to learn something new.
- Focus on the positive things you can get out of it.
- Just do it, don’t think too much about it.

• People you don’t like are involved

- You can learn something from everyone.
- Practice respect and professionalism.
- Focus on the positive things .
- Just do it. 


• Lack of assertiveness

- Learn to become a healthily-assertive person.
- Disconnect failure from self-worth.
- See yourself as a successful person.
- Visualize 


• Big goals and high expectations

- Have big dreams, but start small.
- Slice and dice.
- Trust the process, the outcome will follow.
- Focus on the small things you can do every day 

• Laziness

- Make an identity shift.
- Support the shift with small actions.
- Taste the rewards you get with the effort.

• Unhealthy lifestyle

- Get enough sleep
- Eat green veggies
- Move
- Drink enough water
- Avoid addictions

• A lack of skills or fake passion

- Be in the learning, rather than the panic or comfort, zone.
- Slice and dice.
- Have a big vision and a powerful Why.
- Follow your effort, the passion will come after 

• Thank you for reading 

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