do you procrastinate a lot I'm sure you do there are countless videos books

podcasts any sort of content about how not to procrastinate and you know just get
up right away and finish all of your tasks there are so many of them and I'm sure
that you have already consumed those I'm a productivity nerd and I'm probably
consumed majority of those type of content and probably tried like 90 of those
methods but one thing I learned from my experience is that procrastination is in
human nature and it's actually something inevitable those gurus Pros I don't know
experts also procrastinate we all procrastinate because it's something so natural
I have so many Creator friends you know we all make contents about productivity
how not to procrastinate and all that but even while making this content I
procrastinated and I know that my friends also do procrastinate if we cannot stop
procrastinating then don't you think that making procrastination a bit effective
is the most logical thing to do if you don't think so that's totally fine but I
found some tactics and tricks from the books I learned the methods that I tried
and today I want to share those tips and tactics and the things that I do to make
my procrastination more efficient so the most important step of actually making
procrastination more effective is that understanding what category your tasks
belong to what do I mean by that I hope you don't just write a to-do list from
beginning to the end you know all of the tasks you remember all of the tasks you
have to do and you I hope you're not just like taking them I hope you're not
doing it because if you are not categorizing your tasks and if you're not
deciding which priority group they belong to then actually that means that you're
probably spending quite a lot of time on the things that don't matter and you
probably procrastinate on the things that matters most for your life and this is
the first step that we want to avoid if you want to procrastinate productively
then we have to make sure that we finish all of the tasks that are high priority
it is important to categorize your tasks into three groups for each group we're
going to use a different method to procrastinate therefore it is important to
categorize your tasks into these three groups if you want to use my method or if
you want to just like give it a shot so the first group is going to be the most
crucial tasks these can be tasks that have deadline or it can be about your huge
goals you decide your priority of your tasks but if it has deadline I'm sorry but
you cannot decide it and if you cannot change the deadline then it should be the
most crucial task for example for me any sort of like video deadlines exams
homeworks will get into the most crucial part and then the second group is going
to be the still important group still important groups are the tasks that are
important for you but they do not necessarily have a deadline line probably after
a bit of time they will shift to the most crucial part because you will get
closer to the deadline or there will be some sort of an urgency that you need to
finish those tasks they're a bit more chill compared to the most crucial parts
for example for me creating a online course is still important but it doesn't
have a deadline I can actually do it whenever I want but let's say my income from
YouTube and sponsorship dropped suddenly and I need money then it's gonna shift
to the most crucial task the third group is going to be the not important group
those are the tasks you need to skip if they're important they will appear in the
still important or most crucial part in the future so you do actually not need to
focus on them right now so for the first group which is the crucial tasks we're
going to use a method from my favorite author slash psychiatrist Cava salvation
basically when he has a some sort of a deadline let's say end of September he
books a trip and we week after that so let's say you have a deadline on September
29th so he books for some sort of a trip in the beginning of October and because
in October in the beginning of October he's going to go to that trip he
definitely doesn't want to work during the trip therefore he wants to ultimately
avoid that situation this trip can be can be also a reward for finishing the
crucial tasks but also put you put you you definitely want to avoid that
situation when there is a situation where we absolutely want to avoid more
adrenaline levels increases in our body nor adrenine plays a role in Focus
attention and it also is really important part in performing a task and
memorizing so when you put yourself in a situation where you absolutely want to
avoid it your epinephrine nor epinephrine levels increases and already preventing
is in order by the way so I mean he's a doctor he's a successful author and
YouTuber so he can he can book a trip here and there when he wants to but for
normal people it is not something really possible also I'm like a uni student so
it's not really possible for me to book a trip all the time what we can do
basically is that we can book something that we like to enjoy it can be a cinema
it can be seeing your friends it can be a dinner time or it can be even going to
the gym like something that you truly enjoy just book it so that you do not want
to cancel that plan you absolutely want to avoid it if you don't have any hobbies
if you don't have anything you truly enjoy in your life I'm gonna make a video in
the future so stay tuned but for the group two still important tasks you have
still a bit of time to procrastinate so what you can do in the situation is that
we want to change our procrastination style into more efficient one so the
important step the first step will be identify your go-to procrastination so for
me my go-to procrastination style used to be just scrolling on my phone consuming
irrelevant content that I do not care at all for example contents about Kim
Kardashian I swear to God there's so many contents out there about like
Kardashians and genders and once you watch it your for you page is filled with
them but I do not care about them at all but once you click it you're just in
Rabbit Hole therefore I realize that it's just like wasting my time and I do not
want to procrastinate it like that I just I just don't want to like waste my time
like that you know therefore I shift my procrastination style into more effective
one which isn't reading whenever I want to procrastinate on something I just grab
a book and I read it till the point I'm like ready to get up and do some work
distraction levels compared to your phone is much lower it is not constantly
stimulated like when you read a book The amount of information you get per second
is much lower it's not a high dopamine release activity which is really addicting
the amount of dopamine you get from scrolling versus the amount of dopamine you
get from reading is so different so when I want to like procrastinate I either
hit the gym or read a book or call my friends so that like we would have a
ketchup call just like talk about loud lives and after a bit of time I'm like so
ready to work other ways for you to procrastinate efficiently can be reading
hitting the gym cleaning your place organizing going for a walk decluttering I
don't know taking out the trash or something but if you want to still grow while
you're procrastinating then probably gym reading and also using brilliant will be
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stem is science technology engineering and Mathematics I don't know about you but
for me to be honest during my high school years Middle School years even though I
went to one of the best high schools in Turkey I always adopted the education
system that we get because I've always believed that education should be based on
understanding rather than memorizing and in most of the schools at least the
education that I got was solidly based on memorization so we weren't really
understanding what biology chemistry physics or mathematics we were just
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check it out one of the most important tips that I can actually give is to
understand and analyze the reason why you procrastinate sometimes actually it
does not come from laziness it can come from burnout or you might have an ADHD
and the another thing is you might have been really burned out I really
experienced burnout a couple of months ago and I really can say that it was
probably the worst stages of my life and I felt like doing nothing but I blamed
myself for a very long time for being lazy even though I was actually burned out
most of us especially if you're watching this video you're probably really
ambitious about your life the more pressure we put on ourselves the more likely
that we are gonna burn out so it is really important that actually to care about
your mental health and one tactic that I can give is doing a mental scheduling so
basically you write out all of the things that you have to do in that week so you
analyze your most crucial tasks still important tasks and not important tasks and
you write them down in your calendar after writing down like each day and after
you time block them then you will see like some gaps in your days identifying
those gaps and feeling every day with one activity that you truly enjoy is so
important to actually stay sane I'm not kidding like if you are going to UNI and
if you have a business like me or if you have kids you know we have so many
responsibilities in our lives and you always feel like there's no enough time we
won't avoid that situation we actually have to actively do the things that we
enjoy each day those activities can be easy for relaxation it can be going to Spa
hitting the gym or sauna going for a walk getting massages and all these things
or maybe even just like you're doing your skincare routine a bit more longer I
mean just taking a bit of time taking a bath taking a hot shower like really slow
it can be easy like that you know something that calms down your soul and
nourishes your soul if you do not enjoy like let's say Netflix shows and after
time if you're regretting each time then this activity cannot be considered as
something that will nourish your soul it has to be something that you're like oh
I want to do this tomorrow once again it felt so good for me it it's reading
hitting the gym and learning new stuff so please do mental scheduling in order to
avoid burnout I really hope that this video was helpful for you and I hope that
you guys are procrastinating a bit more efficiently right now so see you guys in
my next video and bye not prayer not pro not pro ah