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4.3. lists distractions that draw people away from urgent tasks?

4.4. refers to procrastination as an act of rebellion?

GETTING THINGS DONE

A. You have a deadline looming. However, instead of doing your work, you are fiddling with

things: checking social media, playing games, or surfing forums. You are a procrastinator,

which means you waste your time and put off important assignments till it’s too late.

And when it is indeed too late, you panic and wish you’d started earlier. The chronic

procrastinators I know have spent years of their lives trapped in this vicious circle. Delaying,

putting things off, facing work only when it’s unavoidable, then repeating the process all

over again.

B. I used to put things off, and for years I believed it was out of laziness. Just before a deadline

I would use the boost of frantic energy to gather myself, but to no avail. It wasn’t until

college that I realized why I procrastinated. What I really needed was an excuse for not being

perfect. It was better to perceive myself as someone who couldn’t be bothered to do things

on time than to imagine myself doing my best and not being successful in the end. All this

came from my low self-esteem, so I preferred to settle on laziness as a more acceptable flaw.

C. Recently I came across the self-help book The Now Habit. It focuses on the psychological

payoffs of procrastination. It appears that for some people putting tasks off is their way of

protesting against what they see as requirements that have been thrust on them. One very

helpful thing the book emphasizes is having a choice − instead of thinking “I have to do

this,” you think either “I choose to do this” or “I choose the consequences of not doing this.”

Sometimes it’s worth accepting the repercussions instead of doing the thing you dread.

I tried it and it works, at least for me.

adapted from www.lifehack.org;www.quora.com

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