To end procrastination you must realise that it stems basically from habit.
If you are prone to procrastination and there is nothing genetically or inherently wrong with you.
Habits such as procrastination are acquired and can be undone with a little bit of practice.
In order to end procrastination you need to first understand what is causing procrastination in your case.
The following are the general causes of procrastination and understanding them will greatly help you to end this procrastination.
a.
You find the task intimidating: if you always find the task that you must do intimidating then your approach is wrong and you need to realise that all tasks are accomplished in a series of steps.
In order to end procrastination in this case you simply need to focus on getting started.
Do not worry about completing the task, instead make all the efforts towards getting simply started.
When you start doing something you realise that all the fear that you had previously been facing was simply the product of imagination.
b.
You are easily distracted: if you're prone to getting distracted then procrastination will become an automatic issue.
Believe it or not getting distracted is actually pretty common and indeed lots of people have issues with concentrating on something for any appreciable length of time.
The average human attention span is merely 3 seconds.
Obviously you're not alone in this.
In order to end procrastination in this case it will be best if you give yourself plenty of time to complete the task at hand.
c.
You cannot make up your mind: if indecision is your problem then in order to end procrastination is simply need to get started.
Indecision results from overthinking and overthinking usually does more harm than good.
When you know exactly what you need to do then without delay just get started.
When dealing with procrastination you must realise the difference between a rational decision to postpone a job and an irrational one with no rhyme or reason whatsoever.
Most people get confused between these two reasons and hence procrastinate.
You can easily end procrastination when you see that in most cases your decision to postpone an important task carries no logic at all.