<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/clock-notime.jpg" alt="Procrastination clock" width="254" height="344" />We almost all procrastinate — let’s just get that out in the open. And it’s OK. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with that. Our brains need to rest. They simply need balance. The problem occurs when it looks like the procrastination will never end and we never achieve our important, but complex challenges. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2015/05/4-easy-steps-to-stopping-procrastination-in-its-tracks/" title="Permanent Link: 4 Easy Steps to Stopping Procrastination in its Tracks" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2513,"date":"2015-05-28T08:11:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T13:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2020-12-22T12:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T17:47:33","slug":"4-easy-steps-to-stopping-procrastination-in-its-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2015\/05\/4-easy-steps-to-stopping-procrastination-in-its-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Easy Steps to Stopping Procrastination in its Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/clock-notime.jpg\" alt=\"Procrastination clock\" width=\"254\" height=\"344\" \/>We almost all procrastinate \u2014 let\u2019s just get that out in the open. And it\u2019s OK. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with that. Our brains need to rest. They simply need balance. The problem occurs when it looks like the procrastination will never end and we never achieve our important, but complex challenges. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2015\/05\/4-easy-steps-to-stopping-procrastination-in-its-tracks\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: 4 Easy Steps to Stopping Procrastination in its Tracks\" 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\/2513"}],"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=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}