<p>Everyone procrastinates. We usually do it to avoid a task that&#8217;s unpleasant or daunting. But when procrastinating starts to interfere with performance at work&#8211;by causing us to feel worried, fearful, and stressed-out, or by causing others to feel anxious because we&#8217;re holding up progress&#8211;then it&#8217;s time to stop putting the task aside and get on with it.</p>
<p>Here are 10 ways to get out of the quicksand of procrastination and reap numerous benefits, which include improved productivity, enhanced mood, less stress, better coworker relationships, a sense of accomplishment, and restored reputation at work as a &#8220;doer.&#8221; <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2013/04/stop-procrastinating-start-living/" title="Permanent Link: Stop Procrastinating, Start Living" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1822,"date":"2013-04-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2013-04-16T23:26:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T04:26:50","slug":"stop-procrastinating-start-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2013\/04\/stop-procrastinating-start-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Procrastinating, Start Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone procrastinates. We usually do it to avoid a task that&#8217;s unpleasant or daunting. But when procrastinating starts to interfere with performance at work&#8211;by causing us to feel worried, fearful, and stressed-out, or by causing others to feel anxious because we&#8217;re holding up progress&#8211;then it&#8217;s time to stop putting the task aside and get on with it.<\/p>\n<p>Here are 10 ways to get out of the quicksand of procrastination and reap numerous benefits, which include improved productivity, enhanced mood, less stress, better coworker relationships, a sense of accomplishment, and restored reputation at work as a &#8220;doer.&#8221; <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2013\/04\/stop-procrastinating-start-living\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Stop Procrastinating, Start Living\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}