Distractions. Distractions remove our focus from one thing to another which could cause you to forget about what you were originally working on or to lose important time on what you assigned your mind to do. Distractions can be a pesky thing when you are trying to get something accomplished, and sadly they happen to all of us. You might be wondering "well how do i remove myself from these distractions, or stop them from happening completely?". Removing yourself from distractions may seem tough and tedious at first, but it becomes much more clear once you start.
To start your path of removing yourself from distractions you can begin by visualizing yourself working. Although visualization techniques can help you, but they can also hurt you. This is a commonly used technique, try working/thinking backwards. For instance imagine yourself finished with your work at first, then they act out the whole process in reverse, feeling and visualizing each step all the way to the beginning. A quicker and more relevant way to apply this would be to imagine yourself doing a small part of you have applied yourself to. Another great tip is to control your internal distractions. Internal distractions are one of those problems you can’t really run away from. You need to find ways to prepare your mind for work and to not distract yourself with your thoughts. A good way to stop your mind from dillydallying is to have a dedicated work area.
How to train your mind to not procrastinate; Your temperament
Procrastination gets to the best of us. It makes us postpone important things that we need to accomplish, and instead we waste time and are anxious about the things we need to accomplish. Procrastinators plan to do everything last minute, putting in little time and sloppy work to accomplish their tasks. The first step to stop procrastinating is to find your temperament. Temperament is the adjustment of intervals of a persons nature and how it affects their behavior. Finding your current temperament is determined by a variety of ways, the easiest is taking the "Kiersey Temperament Sorter" which is a simple test that will take your answers and determine your nature from what you selected. Once done with the Kiersey Sorter there is a variety of ways to start your path from not procrastinating, a cluster of which you don't need to train your mind at all.
To start your path of stopping self procrastination you can begin by removing yourself from an area of which distractions may occur and placing yourself in a quiet working environment with little to no distractions, put your phone in a different area than that of which you are working in to prevent yourself from stopping your work, take intervals of time in which you allow yourself to take a break from working (it is important to have a set time for your breaks after a certain amount of time working and by the amount of work you have accomplished; it is also important that once your break is finished to come back into the working state and to remove yourself of distractions). Training your mind may vary depending on your temperament. For most temperaments there is a simple way to train your mind, it is with a rubber band (or someone to remind you and act as a discipline much like a rubber band). Keep a rubber band around your wrist and whenever you procrastinate, your mind will collate the pain with procrastination, and whenever you think about delaying your accomplishment of your tasks you will think about the pain. Doing this will benefit your work ethics, but is only a small step on your path of stopping procrastination. If you procrastinate try doing these methods to start your path of the art of NOT procrastinating and leave a comment on how doing these methods worked out for you.
