Eliminate procrastination 🚀
Study -> Tools -> Habits -> Celebrate -> Repeat
I build software to make my living. You might be doing something else to make your living. Regardless of what you are, procrastination is a natural psychological behavior that every one of us could get. It proves that you are a normal human being.
So below is what I did to eliminate my procrastination.
1. Study 🧜
Study yourself first. 🫵
Note down a list of tasks that you gave up during the last week. Write down why you couldn’t make it happen. Identify your limit.
In Software Development, this is what we fine-tune by making burn-down charts in the Scrum process.
Make a brand-new list and write what you can do and what percentage you can achieve based on your history. Look back. 👀
Remember that the majority of daily basis stress is based on one thing. 👇
“Do you have something that you couldn’t achieve, but you think that is something achievable!!?” — Think more deeply. These are the things that make you stressed.
2. Tools 🍅
There are plenty of tools available to overcome procrastination. Pomodoro is one of those great mechanisms.
You can simply talk to your iPhone “Siri” and schedule a 25-minute countdown timer. Or there are many free Pomodoro apps available on your mobile phone app store.
The basic concept here is to focus the shortest possible time on a task (you have to divide a larger task into smaller digestible sub tasks).
25 mins work,5 mins break. Repeat few times and take a large break.
3. Habits 🔒
Habits run our day-to-day life as a protocol.
How to form a good or bad habit? Read Atomic Habits if you want more in-depth knowledge or install my app(await the announcement 🎁).
Below is one of the greatest things that you have to maintain in your habit forming journey.
Focus
There is one proven method that I have practiced so far to have a laser-sharp focus.
✍️: Take a piece of pen and a paper. Start writing or drawing things “by hand”. (Because we learned to write from the age of 2. It’s built into our habits already. So Starting with a habit that you have already practiced to practice another habit is productive.)
What you will write? You can draw mind maps and write small notes on top of it. Because I learn things visually and by doing(Kinesthetic). Read more about learning styles and understand how you learn stuff effectively.
4. Celebrate 🥂
If you achieve by following the above, celebrate it immediately. (Don’t forget to clap this article as well)
Sometime back I wrote an article about how to use little celebrations for little achievements in your software development journey to motivate you. 👉 Treat yourself as a Developer!
Little celebrations matter!
5. Repeat 🔁
To make it a habit, you have to make it repeatedly.
That’s all and see how simple it is!
