How to deal with procrastination

Before watching a TED talk, I never defined my contentment with the status quo as procrastination, and even always thought of myself as a strong executioner.

I'm just in my comfort zone and don't have enough motivation to pursue my dreams.

Procrastination refers to people who clearly have a deadline, but they have to delay until the last moment.

I'm not.

As soon as there is a work task, I will act immediately, and others may have to postpone the work until the third day to submit, and I will complete it in the morning of the first day so that I can rest of the time and do nothing.

But I have always wanted to do, not done, not had to do, such as writing articles, knowing how to answer questions.

Because I have a stable and not busy job, a decent income, even if I don't pursue my dreams, my life is good.

In a TED talk on procrastination, it is said that there are two kinds of procrastination, one is that there is a deadline, such as submitting a paper, and we will always be in a state of being anxious that there is one thing to do, and we cannot let ourselves execute, and we are consumed by other meaningless events. Until the last day or two, the "panic" will suddenly jump out to intervene in the self that has always been enjoying himself, so he suddenly realizes that he will not be able to complete the task if he drags on any longer, and he will stay up for two days to write a hastily written the paper.

The other is that there is no deadline, this kind of procrastination is even more terrible, because there is no deadline, so there will never be panic, the little person in the brain will always control us to indulge in nipple music, so we not only delay the pace of progress, and even many people have never started to move forward.

https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_master_procrastinator/transcript?language=zh-cn

So, how do you end the long procrastination?

I don't think the speaker has found a way to make a significant difference, because at the end of the video he just draws a life calendar, telling us that life is just those grids on the screen, and we don't have much time left. So, start working on it today.

Oh, maybe not today, but later.

This sentence of the speaker is the classic saying of procrastination, obviously, there is no specific medicine.

Although there is no specific drug to say goodbye to procrastination, there are ways to make us more willing to act.

For example, the reason why we are slow to act is because the goal is too ambitious, so big that we can't believe that we can really get there; we demand every step too perfectly, afraid of failure and afraid to move forward; we indulge in accusing ourselves of not working hard enough, consuming psychological energy and having no motivation to work hard.

So, come, let's set a small goal, let's take the first step of inevitable failure, let us forgive ourselves for not trying.

Although I did not say goodbye to the long-procrastination schedule and road map, when I realized my anxiety, self-blame, and willingness to kill time with my nipples and did not want to immerse myself in learning because of procrastination, it was the beginning of my farewell to procrastination.