What kind of procrastinator are you?
Before getting into tips on how to beat procrastination, it’s helpful to determine what kind of procrastinator you are based on the triggers for procrastination.
Let’s take a look at the triggers for your procrastination type:
Perfectionist
Being perfect is the main goal of the perfectionist. But this often leads to being too scared to show any imperfections. Because of this, they frequently fail to complete things, as they’re forever seeking the perfect timing or approach. When waiting for perfection, tasks are never completed since in the eyes of the perfectionist things are never perfect enough.
If you are a perfectionist you don’t finish something, but get caught up in a never-ending cycle of edits, additions and deletions.
Ostrich
An ostrich prefers to stay in the contemplation stage. That way, they don’t have to do the work for real and deal with any negativity or stress. Contemplating or dreaming gives this type of people a sense of achievement. In their minds, they envision a big, ambitious plan. Unfortunately for them, this plan will most likely stay a dream, and they’ll never accomplish what they set out for.
Self-Saboteur
A self-saboteur has had a very clear mantra: ‘if you do nothing, bad things won’t happen.’ Self-saboteurs have developed a fear of making mistakes or doing anything wrong. Their way to avoid these mishaps, is to avoid any situation that might cause failure. As a result they indeed make few mistakes – but they also see few accomplishments.
Daredevil
A daredevil is a person who believes that deadlines pushes him to do better. Instead of having a schedule and structure to complete their work, they prefer to enjoy time doing their own thing before the deadline comes around.
Daredevils have a strong conviction that starting early will sacrifice their time for pleasure. This is reinforced in their minds and feelings by the many times they manage to get away with starting late and still finishing in time. Often they sacrifice the quality of their work because of rushing it.
Chicken
Chickens handle work by going by emotions instead of ratio. They do what they feel they should do, rather than thinking through what they need to do.
With this strategy, they never prioritize their tasks. Prioritizing tasks is a step that takes extra time, so chickens feel it’s not worth it. Because of this, they usually end up doing a lot of effortless tasks that don’t contribute much to a project. They’re focus their energy on low-impact tasks, but seem unaware of urgent, high-impact tasks.
Source : https://www.lifehack.org/669901/how-to-stop-procrastinating