Do it and you can beat procrastination

Chapter 1 Preface
A video titled "Song of the Procrastinators" has been popular on Weibo and WeChat.In the video, a group of foreign young people sing the typical symptoms of procrastinators in a cheerful rhythm.Its classic lyrics include: "I'm a procrastinator, I sit here all day waiting for a good time to start working", "I know there is work to do, but I don't care" "I should probably do the laundry, I should probably go Hey cat, but I'm playing a game right now" "I've got my desk all set and ready for work, wait! This picture is a bit crooked, it's driving me nuts, I might as well arrange the pencils one by one by color , and all the documents and information kits, if these things are not done, you will not be able to work!"

The apt lyrics made netizens shout "shot", they forwarded "Song of the Procrastinator" and commented: "Every second the progress bar advances, my knee feels like an arrow!" "It feels like being shot countless times, Visually, it has been shot into an hourglass."

With the rapid development and popularization of high technologies such as the Internet, computers, smartphones, and Ipads, the Internet has become the culprit that people are increasingly unwilling to do things. Procrastination has almost become a common problem among modern people. "I went online very late yesterday and didn't go to bed until early in the morning, so I was so sleepy at work! I didn't finish my work today because of poor spirits. It seems that I have to work overtime at night." In fact, this is the normal state of many modern people. However, as everyone knows, the more you stay up late, the worse your spirit will be during the day, and the more it will encourage your procrastination habit.

From a psychological point of view, procrastination often makes you bear a heavy psychological burden: regret, guilt, stress, irritability, restlessness... These negative emotions will only make you less productive.With so many negative consequences of procrastination, why would you choose to procrastinate rather than get work done right away?Why are there more and more procrastinators?
Relevant researchers believe that there are four psychological causes that are most likely to cause procrastination: lack of confidence in success; dislike of being delegated by others; distraction and impulsiveness; goals and rewards are too far away.Although the causes of procrastination are different for each person, if you want to achieve a wonderful life, you must refuse to procrastinate.

As one student in procrastination therapy at the University of California, Berkeley put it, “Procrastination is like a dandelion. You pull it out and think it’s never going to grow back, but it’s actually buried deep and soon It grew out again.” Refusing to procrastinate is not achieved overnight, but a difficult and long process.

Procrastination brings people an extremely painful mental torture, so more than 95% of procrastinators hope that they can abandon this habit and return to normal and regular life and work.Although people intend not to procrastinate, it is difficult to implement it.In order to help procrastinators achieve a more exciting life, this book "Do It, and You Can Overcome Procrastination" closely focuses on the characteristics of procrastinators, and puts forward many ways and methods to overcome procrastination in a targeted manner. to provide assistance.

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