My statement would be: “If you want to get it done, make a time for it” & “if you don’t get it done now, then you will never do”. So it is either NOW or never while when I used to procrastinate, it was always I will get it done later..

No hurry, take your time

The key to success is waiting for the last possible moment to make a decision, argues University of San Diego professor Frank Partnoy in his new book, Wait: The Art and Science of Delay. He tells Smithsonian magazine: “Historically, for human beings, procrastination has not been regarded as a bad thing. The Greeks and Romans generally regarded procrastination very highly. The wisest leaders embraced procrastination and would basically sit around and think and not do anything unless they absolutely had to. The idea that procrastination is bad really started in the Puritanical era with Jonathan Edwards’s sermon against procrastination and then the American embrace of ‘a stitch in time saves nine’ … But if you look at recent studies, managing delay is an important tool for human beings. People are more successful and happier when they manage delay. Procrastination is just a universal state of being for humans.”

I was the queen of procratination. But, I came to found out that a repetitive work push me to this condition.
I am also a tuttor, as my part time job, and it is more fulfilling activity for me because I tend to create a new lesson for each student. There is not a procrastination in this case.

Alessandra Brazilian

I learned this trick in college, and it helped me keep a step ahead on all my assignments for classes.

Practice has helped a great deal. The most helpful thing has been finally coming to believe that making a phone call will make me feel *better* not worse. Doing the thing I fear makes the horribly unpleasant sensation of fear go away.

Still, I have to use lots of tricks, so I’d like to share them in case someone can use one:
– email the business contact first and request a specific time/date to call. This makes the call mandatory, and eliminates many things I might otherwise fear (that they’ll be annoyed that my call interrupted them, that they won’t want to talk to me, that they won’t know what I’m talking about, etc.)
– walk over to a colleague’s desk (I’m much relieved to now be in a big office where I can do that, rather than the remote office I’d been in before).
– create a time limit for being afraid (e.g., I can only be afraid for one more hour, then it’s over).
– rewards, of course (cup of tea, cookie, chocolate)

I’m a ‘start right away’ kind of guy. I had huge problems completing assignments on time until I started working on the assignment the same day I received it. That way I started thinking about what was required to complete the project, and I had plenty of time for delays. Inevitably, every project that I do has at least one or two steps that require feedback or work from someone else, and the sooner I can let them know I need something from them, the sooner I can get to the nagging stage to make sure they get it done so I’m still on schedule (because most of them also like to procrastinate!).

The start right away method also helps because, like Joseph said with his writing, when I come back to the project I’ve left off somewhere meaningful and it’s easier to get going again rather than trying to start something new.