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

Practice #12: Bundle Rewards with Actions
Bundle rewards with actions to create a rule where you’re allowed to
engage in a specific enjoyable experience only when you do something
that benefits you in the long term.
Practice #13: Attach All Tasks to a Goal
Attach all tasks to a goal by making a list of your personal and
professional responsibilities and connecting each one to an important
value or goal.
Practice #14: Create Accountability for Your Tasks
Use accountability to make sure you follow through on your tasks and
avoid procrastination. There are three strategies that can help you do
this.
First, use
Beeminder
to charge you money if you fail to complete a
specific activity. Next, join
Coach.me
and use this app to check in
whenever you complete a habit related to one of your important goals.
Finally, work with an accountability partner with whom you share your
breakthroughs, challenges, and future plans.

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STEP #7: CREATE YOUR GAME PLAN FOR
OVERCOMING PROCRASTINATION
We’ve covered a wealth of material in the previous six steps. Sometimes,
the advice in these pages requires you to complete one-time, simple
actions. Other times, I recommend building habits that help you fight
procrastination on an ongoing basis. And occasionally, I’ve asked you to
make the proactive decision to eliminate what’s not working in your life.
Put simply: How to Stop Procrastinating requires a bit of hard work on
your part.
The challenge is knowing how to get started.
So, in this final step, I’ll wrap up all you’ve learned with a step-by-step
plan that you can use to forever eliminate your procrastination
tendencies.
This step is broken down into four core activities that need to be
completed:
1. The one-time actions that will set up the framework of identifying
what’s important in your life and what’s not.
2. How to schedule a weekly review session that helps you laser-focus
on what needs to be accomplished in the next seven days.
3. A 13-step action plan of how to fight procrastination daily using my
habit-stacking concept.
4. Practices you can use to fight procrastination whenever you feel the
urge to put off an important task.
Yes, most of the concepts discussed in this step have been covered in
previous sections, but what you’ll get in the following steps is a simplified
version of how to turn the information you’ve learned into a solid action
plan.

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