Do a little every day. One skill the procrastinator needs to develop is to learn how to do a little bit every day. One bite at a time. Understand how much time things really take. I ve encouraged those clients working on giving up their procrastination patterns to keep track of how long something takes them to do.
Procrastinators are naturally bad at time management.
They have spent years with large slots of time filled with meaningless activity and then small chunks of time filled with frantic activity. It helps the person who procrastinates to realize that many tasks take longer than they expect. One woman I worked with ran errands on her lunch hour, just before our scheduled appointment. She was usually late to session. As we talked about what she did with her lunch hour, she began to see that her expectations of what she should be able to accomplish were totally unrealistic.