This phenomenon is a scourge of the modern world. To date, many people suffer from procrastination, without even knowing it. In order to determine whether you are in a risk zone and not whether to take action, let's look at what procrastination is and what methods of its treatment exist.
Symptoms of procrastination
This term means postponing important things for later. It's a familiar state, right? However, do not panic, then you postponed the preparation of the report for half an hour to drink tea with a colleague, or not washed in the evening because watching the show dishes does not mean that a person suffers from procrastination . Laziness, as is known, is inherent to all of us in varying degrees.
Now if a person is not the first week can not bring himself to fulfill his work and household duties, if every day he encounters that he puts off all business for later if life starts to appear problems due to the fact that reports never surrender at the time , and houses on the floor lie a tangle of dust - this is already signs of procrastination.
How to get rid of procrastination?
There are several ways in which you can get rid of this problem. The most popular are two methods, which can be applied simultaneously, and separately.
The essence of the first method is that a person rewards himself for the task accomplished during the time. As a rule, it is advised to use this method in such a way - to detect a period of time not exceeding half an hour and set a goal to do any part of the work during this period. If everything turned out, you can reward yourself with something pleasant, but also noting the time, for example, to drink a cup of coffee after spending no more than 15 minutes. This is an effective way to combat procrastination for those people who have already realized their problem and want to cope with it themselves.
If a person realizes that his willpower is not enough to self-control himself, it is better to use another method, that is, to ask close people to take fines for not having done the right things. This way will work only if the surrounding people really control a person. Otherwise, the procrastinator will not feel that he really will suffer financially.
Methods to combat procrastination in school
Often parents are faced with the fact that their children do not do homework and get bad marks just because they can not bring themselves to do business. In this situation, it is necessary to use several methods of combating procrastination simultaneously.
- First, do not let the child use the computer for entertainment. Put passwords, turn off the Internet, do everything so that the student can not have fun on the Internet in your absence.
- Secondly, reward the child for the work done. To do this, you must clearly indicate to him the conditions under which he will receive a long-awaited gadget or other thing. For example, this can be done in such a way, if within a month the child is on time and with proper quality to do homework, then after this period he will receive a certain gift.
- Third, determine the penal system. For example, an uncompleted assignment in mathematics will entail disabling the Internet for 2 days.
Most importantly, it really does control how the child does its part of the job. And also in no case do not deceive him, if the parents promised to buy something for doing homework on time, then it is necessary to do it. Deceiving the child once, you will lose his trust forever.