6 Sure Fire Ways To Deal With Procrastination And Beat Laziness ( Part-2 )

2. Write down your goals

A lot of people procrastinate simply because they don’t put much energy into their actions. I cannot stress enough on the importance of the written word. I have folders of goals and sub-goals, deadlines, achievables and deliverables – divided age wise, year wise, month wise and week wise.

There are so many books that don’t get written, projects that don’t get finished and dreams that don’t get fulfilled because people don’t have the habit of writing it down and it remains suspended somewhere in their mind space.

Unwritten goals have much less energy behind them. It’s like – you don’t have a benchmark and you simply live for the day to day. You have goals but they exist, somewhere in the back of your mind.

I have seen some of the top most leaders of our times succeed because they use the power of their goals and their clear step-by-step to-do lists to galvanize their efforts. In putting them on paper, you transfer your energy to them, you make them more real, more important.

So, write down the To-dos of your life. Then write down the deadlines and the prerequisites of those goals. Remember – what gets actualized, gets realized.