The habit of procrastinating

​​​​​​​The habit of postponing everything “for later” is a chronic desire not to do what needs to be done now. Avoidance of actual affairs and a pronounced desire to put them off until the very last moment, when the postponement will be impossible or they (the affairs) will cease to be relevant. A bad habit is peculiar to a person-child.

Prevention

• Free up the space around you from unnecessary: ​​tidy up at the workplace, in the apartment, on the computer desktop, on furniture shelves, etc.
• Periodically ask yourself the question: “What am I doing now?”.
• Ask yourself how it moves me towards my goals (if any) and what costs it threatens (if there are no goals).
• One of the reasons for the bad habit of putting things off until later is the tendency to confuse important things with urgent ones. Important things are rarely urgent and become so only because we delay in solving them. In other words, make it a rule to do more than just urgent things, regularly find time and do things that are important.
• Cultivate the habit of doing things on time

From the correspondence of N.I. Kozlov

N.I., could you recommend literature on (applied?) psychology for me to independently study the problem of “postponing for later”. I went through a bunch of different trainings on personal development, but my problem remained in place. I feel like I need to work it out separately and thoroughly?

Dina, there is no special literature for independent study of the problem of “postponing for later”. Probably never will be, because, in my opinion, there is no such problem. There is a habit of living uncollectedly and there is no real need to be collected. If you suddenly become a mother, I do not believe that you will forget to feed the child, postponing it for later. In the meantime, for you (it seems) there are no really important things, so you live carelessly.