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Discussion on: How do you limit or avoid procrastination?

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Mirza

Before starting any work, I put my cell phone on silent mode for 6-7 hours and pen down time slots on a piece of paper. I assign different tasks/sub tasks with each slot. I then put my cell phone far away on a side table. Another thing that I do is try not open Youtube unless I need to follow some coding tutorial. I spent a lot of time watching random stuff on Youtube. Same goes for my FB consumption.

For every time slot that I fulfill for the task that I've associated with it, I put a tick against it. This (for some reason) acts as a social reward by forcing me to fill all those slots with ticks (instead of crosses).