OVERCOMING PROCRASTINATION-A COMPLETE SUCCESS STRATEGY(PART 1) My first question is, What is procrastination?? Procrastination is the laying off of a plan till a further date as a result of we thinking we don't have the necessary things we need to do it at that moment.The back breaker of procrastination is that makes us eventually not carrying out our plans. Procrastination is a problem that bothers almost everyone.Learning to overcome it is an excercise that will pay off for you all your life.To overcome procrastination,you carry out this seven steps 1. FIRST,MAKE A DECISION Decide clearly that you are going to begin acting in a specific way 100% of the time.Whenever that that behaviour is required.For example,if you decide to arise early to do an important thing,set your clock for that specific time,and when the alarm goes off.Immediate get up,do the necessary exercise and begin your work 2.NEVER ALLOW AN EXCEPTION To your new habit pattern during the formative stages.Don't make excuses or rationalizations.Don't let yourself off the hook.If you resolve to get up at 6:00am each morning,discipline yourself to get up at 6am,every single morning until it becomes a part of you 3.TELL OTHERS You should be telling other that you are going to begin practicing a particular behaviour.It is amazing how much more disciplined and determined you will become when you know that others are watching you to see if you have the willpower to follow through on your resolution. 4. VISUALIZE YOURSELF Visualize yourself Performing or behaving in a particular way in a particular situation.The more often you visualize and imagine yourself acting as if you already had the new habit,the more rapidly this new behavior will be accepted by your subconscious mind and become automatic. 5. CREATE AN AFFIRMATION Creat an affirmation that you repeat over and over to yourself.This repeatition dramatically increases the speed at which you develop the ne w habit.For example,you can say something like,"i want to make it before the end of the year!"Repeat these words the last thing before you fall asleep.In most cases,you will automatically find means to achieve it,and soon you would see yourself trying to do it. 6.RESOLVE TO PERSIST Resolve to persist in the new hehaviour until it is so automatic and easy that you actually uncomfortable when you do not do what you have decided to do. 7.GIVE YOURSELF A REWARD Give yourself a reward of some kind for practicing in the new behaviour.Each time you reward yourself,you reaffirm and reinforce the behavior.Soon you begin to associate,at an unconscious level,the pleasure of the reward with the behavior.You set up your own force field of postive consequences that you unconsciously look forward to as the result of engaging in the behavior or habit that you have decided upon. The road to success is not straight. There is a curve called Failure, a loop called Confusion, speed bumps called Friends, red lights called Enemies, caution lights called Family. You will have flat tires called Jobs, but if you have a spare called Determination, an engine called Perserverance, a driver called God will help you make it to a place called Success. EMPOWER YOURSELF AS A YOUTH.