Post Date December, 03 2023
In life, many people will have lazy mentality, and if they are allowed to develop, they will be out of control and affect the progress of great things. The disadvantages of procrastination in the workplace are obvious. In addition to failing to complete the task before the deadline, personal reputation is damaged, and your superiors have doubts about your ability, which directly affects your career development.
Work colleagues who procrastinate are not good for others and themselves. Before recovering from the inertia of work, first analyze the causes:
（1） Muddle along: faced with some laborious work or tasks that you don't like, you will easily procrastinate, thinking that things will be solved at the end, so you can't afford to deal with them at the last moment.
（2） Overconfidence: Some people have confidence to work under pressure and think that they are like springs. The tighter they press, the higher they will play. At the last minute, the effectiveness will be greatly improved. In this process, they often feel the pleasure of overcoming challenges and enjoy the last-minute effectiveness and stimulation. However, when talking to other colleagues, there will be a lot of incongruity and misunderstanding in work.
（3） Afraid of starting: Some people lack confidence. They are often afraid to start because they are afraid of doing well. This kind of inertia of avoidance often makes them more easily frustrated. When others start to urge or are questioned by colleagues, they are even more afraid to start and delay. However, this temporary avoidance makes your fear accumulate more and more in the process of procrastination.
（4） Pursuit of perfection: Some people will try their best to do their best, but they will still delay to do it until the last minute. Only because they want to keep improving and pursue the perfection of quality at all costs, the result is that they do not act and the time is much longer than expected.
To overcome this inertia, we should overcome inertia and complete the task through five steps.
1. Acknowledge the cost of hard work and value the happy result
The main reason why most people procrastinate is that they have to pay a price, which makes us feel a little hard, even if only a little. Just like we all like clean kitchen, but washing dishes is a disgusting job. The process of longing for results but unwilling to endure pain.
A good start is to acknowledge the cost that needs to be paid, but emphasize the result after the work is completed, and affirm the cost that this result is worth paying. Compared with the final sense of achievement, what is this pain?
2. Improve the ability to endure hardship
Everyone has a certain tolerance for hard work and can improve it bit by bit. A good way is to start with small things and relatively simple things, and gradually improve the acceptance of "hard work".
3. Start with small things
Don't be too small for good. When you know that there is something you need to do immediately, do it immediately, and don't delay a minute. If there is a voice in your heart that tells you that there are many reasons preventing you from completing this task, ignore them and do it immediately. Don't whine. It's over when you finish. It's just a small matter. It's not worth your thinking.
4. Make a big deal smaller
When you can overcome the small obstacles to complete the work, as long as you learn to divide the work with more weight into many small parts, and complete part by part, the big difficulties will not matter. However, it is necessary to confirm that these small parts are really meaningful, rather than making excuses to delay time.
5. Don't plan too much, do it now
Don't spend too much time organizing and planning. Just looking at the whole will let you see how hard it is to do this. You should find small breakthroughs that can be put into action and start immediately. There is no big thing that can be accomplished in one move. If you break through small difficulties one by one, you can win the final victory. Your task is to find out what you can do next.
To overcome inertia, first learn to arrange tasks reasonably, ask yourself to complete the work ahead of time, and constantly remind yourself that you must strictly abide by commitments and disciplines, and enjoy the sense of achievement of completing the work ahead of time.
