It’s very important that you understand when you’re procrastinating and not completing your works. Most of it occurs unconsciously.
Today morning I opened my laptop with a mission to complete all the work and make the make the day productive. I started great and somewhere in the middle(I don’t know when) I started to surf Facebook and read other blogs because I didn’t want to complete my work. It was too challenging and boring at the same time. So, I would browse tumblr to see what cool features they have. Go out and think how to integrate foursquare on my blog and all.
I just kept procrastinating.
I figured that I just keep surfing the net mindlessly when I don’t want to work.
So, here’s what I did and what worked for me.
As soon as I identify that I’m procrastinating and not being so productive, I close my laptop — even if it’s in the middle of something important — and move out for a walk. I just forget.
When I come back, I’ll have more energy and I’ll be more focused. If I don’t stop whatever I’m doing right away, then I’ll continue to do what I’m doing. If I’m surfing Facebook, I’ll keep surfing it. Or get distracted through it. Even if I start to work, I’ll not be able to make full use of time because I won’t be so productive.
So, it’s very important that you stop and think for sometime. Think what’s that you’re doing and what you need to do. And as soon as there’s a huge difference between two of them, stop and go out to take a walk. You don’t have to necessarily take a walk, you can drink water, chill and do whatever you wish to.
That’ll freshen you up for a bit and then you can go back to what you were doing or what you want to complete.
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This post was written long ago, thought about sharing since I haven’t written much.