Best solution to your Procrastination

 Waqar Ahmed | The Productivity Science

Every time I try to set myself a goal tracker on Google calendar, I know from the very beginning that I would fail to stick to the process for even a single week. And that is exactly what happens every time I commit. 

It is normal to fall back over a road bump but make sure you get up and follow the path forward. 

Life is changing with the growing internet traffic.

More and more opportunities are coming into existence every day, so has grown the competition for the relevant labor skills. 

Amidst this information revolution, humans continue to nurture a centuries-old tendency to procrastinate and lay back on the couch for hours no matter how important that assignment might be. 

It is okay to take some rest, but when it starts affecting the working life, it becomes a big problem. Many won’t realize until the damage has already occurred.

To avoid missing any deadlines while also continue enjoying your life, you need to draw a line between work time and personal time. 

When it’s work time, focus on work only. But when it’s personal time, focus on the personal life and forget about the rest. 

But there is also a third category that doesn’t care about any of the two sides it's called the procrastination loop. 

Despite giving full focus to the Google calendar filled with details about the goals for any particular day, I fall back into the rabbit hole and start procrastinating. 

What’s the solution to this problem?

There are lots of suggestions to offer, and most of them won’t even deal with the actual problem.

Mine technique is not that different, but it might make a real impact as it has helped me navigate my way through all these dramatic life scenarios.

What is it? It is a sweet recipe by Mark Twain, usually called an anti-procrastination tool.

Eat that Frog

“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.”

Mark Twain has given a great gift to humanity by offering a universal solution to the-mother-of-all-problems called procrastination. 

Every day when you wake up, you are faced with a dilemma to either go to the office or sit back at home and do nothing. 

I would not recommend taking the latter seriously; it might increase your chances of never returning to the office again. 

The complex riddle that twain tries to solve is that, when you start your day, pick the urgent work.

You have to complete the task without looking for any motivation. Instead of putting it for later, finish it immediately.

When you have a single most important work, it becomes a single frog to eat in the morning. 

But imagine putting that work on the next day, now you have got two frogs this time. 

Still, he suggests picking the big frog and eating it first in the morning. 

Don’t push this to the third day because the number of frogs would keep adding. 

The illusion of avoiding work won't solve real-life problems.

Purge all the distractions and start doing the most urgent task. It will make you feel better for the rest of your day. 

But if you choose not to do that, even if you’re out on a date, the work left unfinished will continue to hunt your down. 

The whole day you will carry those scary thoughts in your mind. Therefore, try not to fall into the jetlag business. 

Start with eating that frog in the early morning, and you will see a complete paradigm shift in the way you used to look into your life ever before.

Thank you for your company!