How To Stop Procrastinating And Be Insanely Productive (Personal Growth)
Channel: Practical Inspiration - Personal Growth & Success
Date: 2021-06-10

How To Stop Procrastinating And Be Insanely Productive (Personal Growth)

Learn how to beat procrastination to increase productivity in your personal growth using The Progress Principle. Underestanding how to stop procrastinating and study or get work done is invaluable in today's world! I take inspiration from other YouTube creators like Ali Abdaal and Matt D'Avella on how to stop procrastinating, but one thing I wanted to do was offer a formalised approach to beat procrastination using the progress principle from Steven Kramer and Teresa Amabile.

So if you wonder how to be productive and learn how to overcome procrastination, then be sure to follow this principle. Learn how to be more productive and apply the tips to stop procrastination. This will help you understand how to study, how to get things done, how to focus and ultimately how to beat procrastination with Practical Inspiration!

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
00:30 Why You Procrastinate
02:02 Progress
04:11 Apply The Principle

Why You Procrastinate
It's commonly believed that people understand the act of procrastination to be a form of laziness or lack of discipline. While it's understandable why people would believe this, it's not quite true, as psychologists have generally found that procrastination is a natural coping mechanism with negative feelings and moods related to taking some kind of action, so simply put...Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem!

Therefore, the odd occurance of procrastinating isn't actually harmful and can be somewhat beneficial, after all we're putting off a task for our immediate emotional needs. However, the problem arises from the fact that procrastination makes us feel good as we feel a sense of momentary relief from putting off a task. As we're biologically hardwired to do the things that make us feel good, we naturally procrastinate more and it becomes a vicious cycle.

The problem here is that while we might feel the short term relief, we're equally aware of the long term consequences of putting off the actions we need to take, meaning that ultimately, we feel even worse as we know the costs of procrastination, leading to mental and physical health issues.

This is where the Progress Principle can come in to be useful, as it focuses on our emotional needs when working to feel motivated to complete tasks in front of us and feel a sense of satisfaction when doing so.

Progress
We've already identified the importance of emotions and feelings when it comes to procrastination, and the more you care towards your emotional needs, the less likely you will be to procrastinate.

However, as part of that, we also need to focus on other areas, not least our perception of what occurs and our motivation for doing a task, which can be split into three categories...

Intrinsic Motivation, or the satisfaction we get from doing our work
Extrinsic Motivation, the rewards of completing a task, whether it be positive feedback or pay
and Relational Motivation, which is how our actions influence others

And here's the thing, progress directly influences your emotions, perceptions and motivation to how you approach your work. When researching the Progress Principle, employees of organisations were asked to keep a diary of each day, with positive entries often correlating with a sense of progression in work, whether it be completing a challenging task or overcoming a problem.

Apply The Principle
As mentioned already, the key factors you need to consider when taking on a task is to make sure you meet your emotional needs and have a clear reason for embarking on the task your going to undertake.

To do this, it's important to set your state by doing something that prepares you for work and motivates you to take action. This doesn't have to be anything big.

From here, you want to break down the task into small manageable goals, with clear milestones to reach. These act as catalysts to making meaningful progress and motivating you in your work. And don't forget...the milestones for a sense of progression don't need to be big, rather keep them small and realistically achievable.

Finally, when you do reach a milestone, give yourself a reward as nourishment to your achievement and sense of progression. 

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