Procrastination and its Hack

Muhammad Musa
Sep 8, 2018 · 2 min read

Procrastination is actually a condition in our brain where we do want to work on something very important but instead want to do something that comes to our mind and is more fun to do so we get distracted by that situation. A procrastinate person always try to find an excuse not to do a work and always try to find ways to have fun. In the end the person is left with a lot of work and less time to do that work due to which the quality of the work is compromised and the person can not perform at his\her full potential.

Procrastinators are of two types one that work a day before deadline of the work and the others which do not have any dead line to wake them up and help them to start on a thing they just on delaying there work and do not show any productivity with any work. If you do have these symptoms of procrastination please do not get afraid of it because every person in the world have the same problem but there is a hack for this problem.

Life Hack:

Life hack for over coming procrastination is to use a technique called pomodoro technique. Pomodoro is a Japanese word which means tomato in English this technique is given this name because the device used in this is just like a tomato. This is very helpful to overcome procrastination.

In this method we use a timer we set it for 25 min during that 25 min time if you got distracted by something just take a paper and mark it with the tick or a star when you have 4 stars on your page then take a break of 15–20 min and then again start with a same trick if you keep on doing this surely you will be able to overcome your procrastination.

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