8 Ways to overcome procrastination

1). Do it once.

How many times do you receive a letter or email and read it, and then put it into an action tray for another occasion?

Needless re-reading of emails and letters achieves nothing.

When you first read a letter or email, you generally know what action needs to be taken. By reading the letter twice, this only doubles your reading time and the job is still not done.

Answer the letter or email the first time you read through it.

The benefits are that you:

Save time.

Create better customer satisfaction

Accomplish a task that otherwise would have prevented you from doing more important things.

2). Clear your mind.

It is so easy to get ourselves bogged down thinking about all of the jobs that we should have done but haven't got round to doing yet.

The sheer volume of tasks that we need to do on a daily basis, but haven't got round to doing distracts us from concentrating on and completing the immediate tasks ahead of us.

This calls on us to prioritise our tasks.

While this can be a good way of determining what jobs we should do first, it can also be a good excuse NOT to do something.

We always tend to do the jobs that we enjoy first and all of the unimportant tasks get put off until another time