Guilt and depression are two major factors that come into play for people who have to deal with procrastination on a regular basis. If you’ve never felt procrastination on this level, then you will have a very hard time understanding just how big of a problem it really is. While it might not seem as destructive or like it’s as big of a deal as the more “famous” addictions like addictions to drugs, gambling or sex, it can drastically reduce your quality of life and make both you and the people around you absolutely miserable. My own procrastination is what has driven me to create this blog, and my first topic is the one thing that has helped me the most with it.

If you change your environment in certain ways, then your procrastination can be drastically reduced in a major way. Here’s how to do it:

Start off by making a list of your most common distractions, and remove those distractions from your environment in one way or another. That’s all you have to do to drastically reduce your procrastination.

Now I say “that’s all you have to do,” but it’s usually a lot more complicated than that because a lot of the time your distractions are a major part of your environment. So you have a couple of options. First, you can move to a different location for doing your work (ie: a coffee shop). Second, you can come up with creative ways to block yourself from your distractions.

Changing to a different location isn’t possible for everybody, but it can be as simple as moving to a different room to help put distance between yourself and your distractions.

If your distraction is on the Internet, then the program Freedom can allow you to block the Internet on your computer for a set period of time. I’m a writer, and I use this program myself.

The tactical way of dealing with this is to try to trick yourself in the moment to avoid your distractions.

The strategic way of dealing with this is to work on keeping distractions out of your environment to start with.

There are a lot of ways to approach reducing procrastination both tactically and strategically that I want to look at.