How to break procrastination cycles
To break a procrastination cycle, you must understand what’s causing it, and then practice vital anti-procrastination techniques that tackle its causes.
Here are some of the main anti-procrastination techniques [5] that you can use.
- Improve your planning
- Break your work into small pieces.
- Set intermediate goals and deadlines.
- Change your environment to make it easier for you to work.
- Change your environment to make it easier for yourself to get started.
- Change your environment to make it harder for yourself to procrastinate.
- Start with a tiny step.
- Start with the best or worst part first.
- Add a time delay before you procrastinate.
- Use the Pomodoro technique [6].