Goldsteine - Brain Builder: The Art of Focus and Concentration: Unlocking your Brain Potential

If you find yourself putting off significant tasks to the last minute, you procrastinate to some degree. In addition, this can be a main difficult to both your personal life, your studies and your career.

Procrastination affects every aspect of your life. Adverse effects would experience tension and fatigue physically, low self-esteem, frustrations and guilt, diminished quality of life and missed career opportunities that will poison your productivity.

Protection is better than cure. You don't want to get sick like my own father, do you? Stop procrastinating and guard yourself against cancerous habits.

To identify the beginning of procrastinating practice is to admit to yourself that you have a bad habit and you need to change. That's good! But your good intentions havent helped you overcome procrastination have they? Here are some reasons why people procrastinate:

• Priority - Placing the importance of certain tasks behind on your priority list.
• Unknowns - Rejecting the unfamiliar is one reason of procrastination.
• Time - Not allotting enough of it for the things that need to be done.
• Overload - Continually putting things off would pile thing up!
• Fear of Failure - A common form of erroneous thinking that leads to procrastination is perfectionism.
• Feelings - When you feel anxious; it's tough to work effectively.

Your initiative is the key to beat this habitual behavior. If you really want to tame the wolf, youve gotta train it the way Caesar Milan does it:

Act AFTER you plan. Yes, you heard me (or read me) balance the time spent in planning with the time spent on doing the task. Break the day up into a number of action sessions for other tasks. Doing the planning after an action ensures you actually plan rather than risk looking like a slowpoke when you're supposed to be IN the action.

Be vision directed. Bring each task in harmony with your goals. Set goals as soon as you are about to begin something. Simplify the tasks on a checklist and target each and everyone.

Bite-sized pieces. You don't have to tackle all the steps of a project in one sitting. Break large assignments into small tasks over a period of time, this book wasnt finished in one sitting you know.

Good enough is good enough. Rather than perfection, aim for advancement. Any small step toward completion is an accomplishment. Determine how much you can do and tolerate at a time. Because sometimes we get so emotionally frustrated, you might need a walk or a cup of water. (Bonus: Dont drink coffee)

Just do it. Nike said it best, alternate between jobs that are unpleasant to you with tasks you enjoy. Set a time limit and give nothing but your best in that short period of time. (Bonus: Just like the gym, do things in sets)

Plan around interruptions. Take steps to prevent those interruptions before they occur. Do what you sensibly can to minimize it, but make sure you don't scare people away from interrupting you when they should.

Remember to make it fun. A clean desk allows you to focus without visual distraction. Try to incorporate fun. It's only a chore if you think of it as a chore, I mean, I hope youre enjoying the little bits of humor, I certainly am.

Stay motivated. Reward every step along the way, not just the end result. Thinking of achieving your goal and dream a little of that fantastic moment of sheer jubilee, whatever is a mental reward for you.

Dwell on success, not on failure. An advantageous aspect is that making an effort for solutions on this problem returns an exceptional personal growth. You'll become stronger, braver, more disciplined, more driven, and more focused.