In the following two lectures we'll be talking about the eight productivity principle overcoming procrastination. It first glance, it might seem quite a logical thing to do, and you might not even take it into account when determining your productivity techniques. However, I would like to put special emphasis on the topic of procrastination in the ways to avoid it. I believe that the widespread notion of procrastination is a weakness is superficial, and its perils are often underestimated. It is in fact, a very complex psychological issue that could largely influence your whole life, and especially your work goals and successful accomplishments. This is why I'll be talking about it.
In a two part lecture. I'll give you some insights into the essence of procrastination. The root reasons for it, as well as some directions about detecting it in your own situation and finding ways to combat in defeat it. Let's start with the definition of procrastination. It psychologists Jane and Leonora put it in their valuable book, procrastination, why you do it and what to do about it. Now, the dictionary definition of the verb procrastinate is to postpone, put off, defer prolonged, the word comes from the joining of two Latin words Pro, meaning forward, and crustiness, which means belonging to tomorrow.
In other words, it is the habit of postponing our tasks and duties for another time period, not really knowing why we do it. A harmful habits, often resulting in Miss deadlines work under stress, depressive conditions, or in some cases, the inability to complete the task at all. procrastination at its core is a problem of self worth related to low self esteem. That makes it all more complicated. Because it is much more difficult to overcome psychological barriers. You should put more effort in that direction than in any other physical one.
No matter how hard it is. Many times the battle against our bad habits is the hardest battle. But in the same time, the more significant one is a victory in that case is more rewarding and leads to more successful results in general. When you destroy and triumph over unproductive patterns, your progress is much quicker in your results much more impressive. There are different reasons for procrastination. According to psychologist Peter Steele, four main issues make procrastination more likely.
Low Cost feeders in succeeding task adverse liveness, distractibility, and impulsiveness, and hitting goals and rewards to be too far off in the future, I'll present a few of them for you to consider and see whether you can identify with some of them or all of them. Their most common denominator is fear. One of the reasons is the fear of failing. One might not want to put reasonable effort in the task for fear of not getting good enough results. And that leads to putting it off. failure.
In this case of procrastinators is often intertwined with another reason, namely perfectionism. Many times their idea of perfection is highly unrealistic and attainable in practice, and Indians a burden on them that leads to unproductive patterns instead of a motivational force. Another problem is the fear of success. They believe that they cannot bear the consequences of it both positive and negative ones. I would also like to mention the poor time management trouble is one more reason for procrastination. We already discussed in a previous lecture, so we will not go into further detail here.
In the following Part, we'll look into the ways of defining your procrastination levels and some techniques to overcome it. Alright, let's recap. overcoming procrastination is one of the crucial principles of productivity. It is a complex psychological issue that affects your whole life and your productivity goals in specific, it is the bad habit of postponing tasks in duties for another time period. Procrastination is a problem of self worth related to low self esteem. Some reasons For it our fear of failing perfectionism, fear of success, poor time management.
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