Procrastination is a disease
Procrastination is one of the mistakes, we can make on our they to success. By procrastinating we are just running from a full-rate life, which we can experience at this moment. Only the small amount of people are able not to postpone tasks every day – most of us are sick.

Why is it the disease? If human always procrastinates, he is just lying for himself. He is running from his wishes and his future. He is trying to stay in his past, to hold status unchanged. Maybe he is afraid of failure. It looks very familiar to psychological invalidity. No matter what it is, do you really want to have it in your life? Consider it – you can choose.

There is no procrastinated tasks
What is a delayed task? It is the task, which should be done tomorrow instead of now? But assignments of tomorrow don’t exist, because tomorrow hasn’t come yet.

What is procrastinating? It’s nothing. In the reality there are only completed and uncompleted tasks.

So, task is completed or not. Black and white. There isn’t a place for grey.

How to stop procrastinating

1. Read again the paragraph “Procrastination is a disease”. Do you really want to be sick with it? To stuck in one place? To achieve nothing? Always to be pity about yourself and say “tomorrow is the day I’m going to start doing X”.
2. Instead of “tomorrow” assign a concrete time, for example, Wednesday at 18:00. Commit yourself to it, brace yourself. Impose a reward for completing a task. And just do it.
3. Do you remember that pleasant feeling, that you’ve done something important? A project or a task is very large, elaborate. There isn’t enough information to understand how much work is needed to complete it. We always want to accomplish any task very well, so we procrastinate again and again. After a while we start to feel discomfort – the conscience is eating us from inside for our laziness. Finally, we do a small part of the task. We start to feel great, because the job is moving forward. Also, we understand that it was easier than we previously thought. It looks like it’s more fun and simple than we originally guessed. Remember the pleasant feeling.
4. Maybe you are postponing a concrete tasks. When ask yourself, whether you really want to do it. Why to do something, which deep inside of you looks like a stupid, unpleasant and unessential thing? Maybe somebody else is trying to make you to do it? In this case write down advantages of doing a task. If the list doesn’t reduce your wish to procrastinate to a minimum level, then just drop out this task and don’t do it.
5. It’s hard to complete a task with one attempt. Assign 30 minutes of your precious time for doing the task. After the time has passed, you can stop doing. This way you can avoid procrastination, which is caused by elaboration and size of the task. Also, we see that the task was easier than we thought. We get a pleasure of moving forward with the task and it motivates us to go further with it.
6. Understand that you are to much valuable to be always worried about things you need to do. When next time you’ll feel uncomfortable because of procrastinating, remember that people who loves themselves don’t hurt themselves like that.
7. It’s better to do something than to try to make it perfect at the very first time and have nothing tangible, nothing completed. So, just do something. You’ll have plenty of time to improve it.
8. If you’re going to start reading, start now. If you’re going to learn more in you profession field – begin now. The only time we have is the present. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow hasn’t come yet.

Conclusion
Don’t lie to yourself and don’t trick your conscience. Just do it. Start today, start now. The sooner you’ll start the sooner you’ll get the desired results. Don’t leave for tomorrow, what you can do today.

The interesting fact is that healthy people act as it is a must be and natural thing. Is it? Well, humans who don’t have it appreciate such “common” things and tries harder to cling to their lives.

I could tell many stories about men, which didn’t have something we feel like “must be and natural”. For example, a woman who was able to see only with an edge of one eye. She got two master’s degrees. She was forced to read holding a book 10 centimetres from her face! After 40 years, when the medicine improved, she regained the ability to see. The dish washing for her was a feast, because there are so many colours in the bubbles. And you still think you can’t get the science degree you want? Which probably would drastically change your life.

Or how about a child, who was born without ears. He was able to hear only when people were talking to his temple or were shouting very loudly – hearing through bones. He never gave up, studied in a standard school and university. When he was at the last semester at the university, there was invented deaf-aid, which was able to make him hear as a common person. He was inspired. He created two years plan, how to enlarge ability to sell devices to people, who need them. After coming with the plan to the owner of the company, which made deaf-aid, he was hired. He helped for a lot of people.

Do you still think that you a poor person? I suppose that you are an idler, procrastinator,  layabout or anybody else, but not a person, who lacks something. You are not a beggar, who need somebody’s mercy. Wake up from your own dream in which you are living and thinking that you are a victim. You have abilities to procure anything you want, live as you like, spend time with people you like, and do whatever you want. Deep inside you know it. Let it be on your conscience. Use your life privileges and talents. You are the master of your destiny.

Conclusion
These Henry’s Ford words perfectly illustrate what I want to tell you: “Whether You Believe You Can, Or You Can’t, You Are Right”. Process it, consider and apply.

Don’t stick in stage of planning
You can plan how you’ll accomplish your business idea many days. You can write, paint, draw diagrams, which looks like pieces of art. But the only thing which gets you closer to your goal is performing an action. Only act gives us some tangible result.

It’s better to start act than to be in a planning phase. Why? Firstly, you hardly can create a perfect plan. There always happens to be some inaccuracies and errors. Sometimes unexpected things happen and change your life and, of course, your schemes. However, you can’t take back the time you’ve spend planning. Secondly, the faster you start to perform concrete steps towards your goal, the faster you get feedback. Suddenly you’ll see that one thing or another must be done in different way or, that some things cannot be accomplished at all. The gained experience helps to upgrade plan and its execution.

Of course, I don’t deny benefit, which is provided by having a step by step plan and prioritization. But we can reach our goals only through performing actions. Actually, performing an action it the last thing in hierarchy of success, which comes after things like attitude, goals, strategies and other things. But only action gives as tangible result.

Experiment
If you think that you can become a person which perfectly masters his time or always sets and reaches goals by just reading a book or article, then I have bad news for you – life doesn’t work like that. The way to success is paved by mistakes and failures, because it makes us stronger and smarter. Try out things about which you’ve read and adjust them. One size doesn’t fit all. Also, information which isn’t used doesn’t provide any benefits, so why to bother gathering it? And the last thing about not using your gained knowledge is that the less you use it the higher probability to forget.

Now, let’s imagine, that a man created a manual how to achieve success. You’ve read it and applied, and now you’re a successful person. How would feel knowing that your success belongs to somebody else? That actually, you’ve achieved nothing? It would look like repeating brainless steps – no befit or fun. The worst thing is that there would be no failures, difficult situations and others things, which are necessary for personal development and further success.

You don’t need the newest mobile phone
Often people say or think that if they had a better program, faster internet, the newest mobile phone, when they would be more productive and more successful. And while they don’t have it, they can’t even take garbage out, because they don’t have an appliance, which would remind them, that they need to do it. Also, they would like to have a device, which wouldn’t let them to forget to make a reminder for taking garbage out But let’s take a close look to an article “Five best note taking tools” from a popular site lifehacker.com. The second place belongs to paper and a pen. The readers of the website are more productive and educated than an average person, but still insists that the simplest tool is the best.

So, the need for the newest technology is just another way for procrastination. Paper and a pen is all you need to get started. I agree that a smart phone could help you to remember things and to plan work day more effectively. However, it’s not a reason to postpone performing actions.

Conclusion
Despite the fact, that action takes the last place in hierarchy of success after things like attitude, problems approaching method, goals, strategy and other, but only it gives us concrete result, which takes us nearer to success. That’s why don’t stuck doing all other things, but performing actions. Without them even the perfect plan or the best attitude wouldn’t get you closer to success even by an eyelash.