Inspirational success: procrastination, the disease that ruins your life

Introduction: Procrastination is self-indulgence. You must be determined to control your procrastination and indulgence. Procrastination will gradually reduce or disappear. The following is a collection of inspirations that I have searched and compiled for everyone. Welcome to read! I hope it can help you!

Tomorrow comes tomorrow, there are so many tomorrows, I am waiting for tomorrow, everything will be wasted.

Why are you never done what you want to do? Why are your tasks never completed on time?

Why are there always people who dislike your work efficiency? Why are you always criticized for being late? Frustrated when you fail to meet the standards?

Just because you have a disease: procrastination. This disease is universal. You have it, I have it, everyone has it.

The great writer Lu Xun once said: Time is life, and wasting your own time is slow suicide. The passage of time is always silent and difficult to detect.

Those who can seize time are the winners in life. If every bit of time in life is not used, it is like drilling many small holes in the hourglass of life.

Time is ticking and our work lives are in chaos due to procrastination.

In "Procrastination", the writer Ji Se will tell us the symptoms of procrastination and how to prescribe the right medicine to achieve "know yourself and the enemy, and win every battle".

1. Tomorrow

The symptoms of most procrastinators are: tomorrow.

Today’s situation is not good, where is tomorrow? Today’s task delivery has not yet expired, where is tomorrow?

Just like "Tomorrow's Song" said: Tomorrow will happen again Tomorrow, there are so many tomorrows. If I wait for tomorrow, everything will be wasted.

In fact, what you didn’t do today will probably not be done tomorrow, and it will be ineffective because you didn’t do it in time. Also, you don’t know if there will be new tasks tomorrow, or other unexpected things will suddenly happen. interrupt.

The newspaper required that a hot article be completed within two days. The sooner the better, and the editor-in-chief gave the task to Qiqi and Lele.

Qiqi received the notice and started writing that day. She went to the Internet to check the relevant information, and completed the manuscript and submitted it that day.

Lele felt that it was not yet time to submit the manuscript, so she planned to write it the next day. On the second day, another hot event happened. Lele felt that yesterday’s hot spot had not passed yet, so she decided to Let me write about yesterday first.

At this time, the editor-in-chief had already notified the editor yesterday to review the article and publish it. The statute of limitations has expired for Lele to write this article again, because the same newspaper generally only accepts one hot article about the same event.

Lele procrastinated again on the hot events of the next day, while Qiqi completed the next day's manuscript at the same speed.

If things continue like this, will Lele be laid off because of procrastination? If you were the boss, would you hire Lele who has been procrastinating and ineffective?

"Tomorrow" is full of new things hope, but using "tomorrow" as an excuse for procrastination is the weakest excuse for doing nothing today.

Bill Gates said: Act now, don’t delay, survival of the fittest.

Once you have procrastination, it will cause great harm to yourself: doubt yourself, not confident in yourself; depressed and prone to negativity and burnout;

Psychological distortion and bad mood ; Unable to realize one's own ideas, suffering endlessly; becoming egotistical and insensitive; becoming anxious and world-weary.

So, how to resist procrastination? How to curb the thought of "do it tomorrow, talk about it tomorrow, I still have tomorrow"? We can train ourselves through a step-by-step process:

< p> Don’t indulge in your emotions. In some cases, pay less attention to yourself. It is not difficult to find from some people with small achievements that they all have one characteristic: they can control their emotions.

When working, focus on it and ignore the weather factors and other people’s comments. That is to say, don’t be a servant of your emotions, control your own emotions, and look at life with a normal mind.

Make a plan in place. Don’t be too ambitious and have too little ambition. Make a plan and complete it within your own ability and within a certain time. If you can complete one thing, you will have a sense of accomplishment.

You can also divide the daily workload, so that you will not be clueless and can also reduce a certain amount of psychological pressure. As the old saying goes: the meal must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be walked step by step.

Be tough on yourself and don’t leave any opportunities for procrastination. Once you have made a plan, you must try your best to complete it.

For example, you should set a time limit for yourself to read a book and give yourself a sense of urgency, so that you can use your time efficiently to do more things.

2. Perfection

Perfectionism is more likely to procrastinate.

Everyone has their own definition of "good" standards. If you do a job well, you may think that others are not satisfied.

A housework that you think you have done well, but your mother is not satisfied with. For example, some people’s first impression of “perfectionism” comes from their parents:

This is Did you wash the dishes? They are still a little slippery to the touch;

Is this the room you tidied? Why are the clothes not neatly folded?

The books on the desk should be sorted into categories. Okay, everything is messed up...

This is not perfection. The perfectionism here is not trusting oneself in study and life, and trying to find one's own faults.

Chernyshevsky said: Since there are black spots on the sun, it is even more impossible for things in the world to be without flaws.

Nini is a very careful girl. She has studied hard since she was a child. She washes her clothes cleanly and folds them neatly; she writes her homework carefully and neatly.

But Nini’s grades were always low, hovering in the middle, and her parents were worried. The child was not hard-working and conscientious, but the effort and reward were not always proportional. Later I found out that Nini was too careful. .

For exam papers, you have to carefully check the questions you know how to answer before moving on to the next one. Those you don’t know will struggle for a long time, so when it is time to hand in the paper, you often haven’t finished it yet.

The same goes for her work. She is always worried about making mistakes. She checks it repeatedly every time and revise it repeatedly when she sees something she is not satisfied with. Time to hand in tasks.

There is no perfect thing in this world. People who constantly pursue perfection are actually pursuing some ultimate perfection. They are worried about deviation or failure, so they constantly improve.

Such behavior will lead to two results:

The first is procrastination, dilly-dallying, and hesitation in doing things, resulting in procrastination.

The second type is enthusiastic at the beginning and has the momentum to never give up on the work. However, because imperfect situations keep appearing at work, they find it difficult to accept the facts and lose enthusiasm, and start procrastinating midway.

Perfectionism is usually intolerable to imperfect things and always wants to change them on its own.

So they often start a certain task hastily, make plans quickly and execute them without hesitation. However, it is still difficult to change the status quo, which brings them a sense of frustration, and then they lose enthusiasm for doing things and develop the habit of procrastination. .

The solution to procrastination is to first get rid of the mentality of pursuing perfection in everything and start from the following three points:

1. Don’t compete with yourself and don’t punish yourself with past mistakes.

Dissatisfaction with oneself is the biggest obstacle to perfectionism. If you don’t get what you want, it is difficult to have positive emotions of self-motivation.

As long as you have a sense of responsibility and complete your work and study seriously and in a timely manner, it is enough. If you feel sorry for yourself, it is better to think seriously about how to "recharge" yourself and improve yourself.

2. Lower your standards appropriately. The world is not black and white.

In the perfectionist worldview, there are only "right" and "wrong", "good" and "bad" "There is no room for maneuver with this extreme thought. You need to reflect on yourself, are there any problems with standards?

So you must learn to let go, let go of your obsessions, and don’t always be bored in your own world.

When encountering something, you should communicate with your friends and colleagues around you. Be bold when working. Those who do great things do not stick to trivial matters. "Shortcomings" are also a kind of beauty.

3. Be more confident in yourself, you have already done a good job

Lack of confidence is the root cause of many procrastinations. Worrying that you can’t do well and seeing others doing well , will increase the inner anxiety and dare not face one's own work.

Many times, we dare not start a certain task because of doubts about ourselves, and are afraid of failing if we do not do it well.

But we can think about it from another angle: if we fail to try something, everything will return to zero; if we don’t do it, everything will return to zero.

The result is also zero, it is better to give it a try, at least we can gain experience from it.

3. Self-assessment of procrastination

If you want to know whether you suffer from procrastination, torture yourself from the following angles.

1. Do you always lack self-confidence?

Confidence seems to have nothing to do with procrastination, but in fact the two are closely related.

Confident people are more positive when facing difficulties or setbacks because they believe they can do it, so they do not feel fearful.

For people who lack self-confidence, they think of escaping from difficulties, have insufficient psychological endurance, and dare not face problems head-on.

2. Do you always dream without taking action?

In the workplace, this behavior is called "lack of action."

In our minds, we may have sketched out a very beautiful career blueprint and perfectly planned our work in advance, but we always stagnate at the "execution" stage.

Always thinking about it and never doing it, this is the manifestation of procrastination.

3. Are you lazy or timid?

These are two kinds of problems. Some people are not afraid to do it, but they are lazy and unwilling to do it.

The specific manifestation is that he does not do any work that is not his duty, and he resists and is not active enough in his duties.

Sooner or later this situation will develop into procrastination. Others are timid, timid in doing things, afraid of making mistakes, and then reduce their efficiency because of excessive worry.

4. Do you lack vitality and motivation?

In work and life, passion and vitality are the most precious things, even more precious than ability.

People who are capable but not passionate will do less and complain more, which will only make themselves less efficient; those who are passionate but not capable, their passion will push them to continue to improve. Learn and make progress, putting more and more energy into your work.

Therefore, without energy and motivation, your work will be easily delayed. After taking the self-assessment, do you find that you meet one of the criteria?

If there is no obvious delay, You have to be careful and don’t dare to give up. Procrastination will find you sooner or later.

4. About treating procrastination

Harrick, a talent scientist at Harvard University, said: 93% of people in the world have accomplished nothing because of the bad habit of procrastination. This is because procrastination can kill people’s enthusiasm. .

Therefore, it is urgent to cure procrastination. It is related to the destiny of your life. The following is a short story about how the great French writer Victor Hugo cured procrastination.

The great French writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was rushing to write a work and was very nervous, but social activities took up a lot of his time.

One day, he came up with a trick: to shave off half of his hair and beard.

When friends and relatives came over, he pointed out his funny appearance and declined social appointments. When his beard and hair grow back, his masterpiece will be completed.

When writing "Les Misérables", in order to prevent procrastination from catching up with him, he took off all his clothes and asked his servants to take them away.

He locked himself naked in his study and told his servants not to give him any clothes. In this way, he did not dare to go out and forced himself to write so many words in one day.

These two short stories tell us that procrastination is self-indulgence, and we must be determined to control our procrastination and indulgence. Procrastination will gradually reduce or disappear.

Dickens said: Never put off today’s work until tomorrow.

Tolstoy also said: Action is the cure for fear, while hesitation and procrastination continue to nourish fear.