Your guide to starting that task you have been avoiding

Your guide to starting that task you have been avoidingYour guide to starting that task you have been avoidingHows that to do list of yours coming along?Pretty slow, right? Its not surprising. Barelyone in ten of us achieves everythingwe platzdeckchen out to do each day.Sometimes it just takes one iceberg task to sink all of your good intentions. You know the type a task that is so big, so boring, or so challenging that youd rather clean the office from floor to ceiling than actually get started on it.Ultimately, you fail to reach all those more achievable tasks beyond the big one thats sent you into a spiral of procrastination. And that just makes things worse. Your to do list becomes more like a novel. Your stress rises. That iceberg seems even harder to pass. And as one study showed, stress and procrastination affect your mental and physical health.But thankfully, dealing with procrastination is not a question of will-power. Its a question of technique.For a start, breaking that i ceberg task intosmall, manageable chunksmakes it seem a lot more achievable. Make a list or timeline so you can feel the satisfaction of fimmeling things off as you go, rather than waiting to tick the whole giant task from your main to do list. Importantly, this helps you to highlight that one transition point that will get the ball rolling. It might be as simple as picking up the phone if the task is an important call that youve been putting off.You can personalize your technique, too. Motivation is different for everybody. Some have introvert energy, some are extroverts some are night owls, some are most productive in the mornings. Arrange your schedule so your potential iceberg projects crop at appropriate moments. For example, set creative tasks for first thing in the morning if thats when youre most creative, and pencil in repetitive admin tasks for the post-lunch energy slump.Weve created a thorough guide on how to defeat procrastination and get on with tasks youve been avoidi ng. (Probably we did it because there was something more important we were supposed to be doing).Take these ideas onboard and youll find it much easier to get stuckverzierung into work next time you get held up by an iceberg.This article first appeared on NetCredit .