Work At Home Mom

Because there is no boss around when you work at home, it is really easy to procrastinate on certain tasks. Maybe family activities seem to take priority, but often the problem is that a task feels overwhelming. Perhaps you are facing a task that you find difficult to do. For example, if you are shy, you may dread phone calls and you might put them off until the last minute or not even do them at all. Or, if you have a large project to do, you may feel like it will never get done, so you have trouble getting started. You might feel that you have to do the highest quality work and since you don't have a big chunk of time to do it in, you cannot possibly get started.

All these problems are traps. Procrastination does not make you feel better - in the long run it makes you feel worse because you feel stressed as you try to complete things at the last minute - or perhaps you have failed to complete an assignment because of procrastination.

To beat procrastination, tell yourself you are going to get started on something. Just work on it for a short time - use a microwave timer and set it for ten or fifteen minutes. Then do something more fun for the next fifteen minutes. Alternate the tasks you dread with ones that you enjoy so you are rewarding yourself for getting through the difficult things. Remember that doing something “good enough” is a lot better than not doing it at all because of procrastination.