How to Stop Procrastinating: a simple Guide to Mastering Difficult Tasks and Breaking the Procrastination Habit

Talk about how certain projects and random tasks hinder
your ability to focus on these critical tasks
. Usually the
biggest culprits are meetings, email, and random disruptions. Sure,
they might often seem urgent, but they often can turn into time-
sucking tasks that cause you to procrastinate on the activities that
are truly important.
The key to the effectiveness of this step is to not complain about
being overworked but to provide solutions on how to fix this issue.
These suggestions can include skipping meetings that aren’t
directly related to your core two or three tasks; eliminating the
tasks that don’t directly align with your priorities; delegating
certain responsibilities that don’t align with your core tasks to team
members or subordinates; requesting a temporary worker or new
employee to lighten the load; and doing certain tasks on a less
frequent basis (e.g., weekly instead of daily or monthly instead of
weekly).
Sure, going to your boss and admitting that you can’t do it all might seem

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like a scary conversation. But what you’re doing is trying to realign your
time so you can focus on the activities that generate the biggest profit for
the company. If you can show that eliminating the unimportant leads to
an increase in productivity, the conversation should be an easy decision
when it comes to getting what you want.