Greetings Steemians. Welcome to my blog, your favorite destination for getting all tips that will guide you to maximum success on steemit and other areas of life endeavors. Today, we will be looking at procrastination and ways it can be overcome. The menace of procrastination is a threat to productivity in every sphere of life. And no one can claim never to have fallen victim to procrastination at some points in life. We are all guilty of procrastination but when a problem is known and efforts are directed towards combating it, it can fizzle out in no time.

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Procrastination is a common state that can become so problematic that it may threaten one's job, education, and even personal life. It is defined as putting off or delaying something that needs to be done. The "something," often varies and may be anything from a chore at home to an important project at work or in college. Source

How many times have you wanted to make a post, visit blogs to carry out curation activities, be active in groups with aim of building up a favorably cohesive steemit based relationship with those who matter in the community, but would end up achieving nothing for the day? If there is anyone guilty of this, I am one and I trust many people are too. Are you one of us?

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You have to tell yourself the truth to be able to overcome procrastination and its numerous disadvantages. For me, I procrastinate a lot when I joined steemit new; I knew I do. I was very conscious of it. Then, any week I was able to write two articles, I would celebrate it. I became so conscious of it that I had to look for solution. One individual I used to compare myself with then was @smyle.

I would wonder how @smyle managed to be so active in the various groups and still still writes at least one article every day! He responds to issues within these communities with speed of light. And if it is something that has to do with breach of rules in communities where he has administrative rights; even if the offense was committed at dead of night, @smyle would always come from nowhere to sanction the offender accordingly.

In my wonderment, I decided to effectively deal with procrastination. I came up with some strategies that not only helped me but also became part of my way of life today. These strategies are so effective that today, I write at least 5 articles per week and still hang out in chat groups. These strategies are what I am going to share with us today. So if you find yourself in a similar situation, you need to pay keen attention to these strategies.

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I learnt to set goals

One of the the strategies that have been working for me is setting goals. I began to attach deadlines to particular responsibilities. I would break my daily steemit task into a list of realist and doable steps, assign deadlines to each and everyone of them. And then discipline myself to ensure I complete each and every task within the time assigned to it. This has really helped me to write at least one article everyday, curate and hang out in some communities.

I learnt to plan breaks

In order to reduce the chances of becoming bored doing same thing every passing day, I always factor in break periods whenever I am setting my daily goals. This is the period of respite I always look forwards to as my reward for the time I spent working without distraction. Whenever I am through with a particular task and approaching my break period, there is this sense of excitement I feel like oh, I can't wait!, you know — something like that! It feels marvelous! Even if my break period will last for 30 minutes, I don't play with it and always ensured I am well rewarded with that interim. I also make sure I am not carried away by it; once the break period is over, I discipline myself to return to work until the next break period is due.

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I learnt to create a good workplace to avoid distraction

Another thing that has helped me to avoid procrastination is finding a conducive environment to work in order to avoid distraction. Distraction is anything that prevents one from accomplishing a set goal. Distraction does not only come about when there is noise; no. Anything can constitute a distraction, which will now lead to procrastination. Putting on an uncomfortable shirt, for instance, can make one decides to take a shower. From taking a shower to deciding to take a nap, and in the process you won't accomplish the goal you set for the day. So you are the only one who can determine what constitutes a distraction to you and deal with it accordingly.

I learnt to prioritize

Prioritizing according to order of importance of the individual tasks I have to accomplish daily, has equally helped me a great deal. For instance, when I have not commented on articles for sometime, what I would do is to attach a higher degree of importance to commenting on articles on a given day that actually writing article. This enables me to comment on articles first before writing any article. This way, I don't keep procrastinating on when to comment on articles.

Making effective use of your time is important to overcoming procrastination. For you to make effective use of your time, you have to discipline yourself to follow a predetermined course of action; you have to come up with a time able and stick to it no matter whose ox is gored. I hope the stated insights I am using to overcome will be of use to you. Thanks and God bless.

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