How to stop procrastinating:

Most people procrastinate occasionally and especially when it comes to tackling an unpleasant task. Unfortunately procrastination only intensifies internal pressure, out-of control feelings and increased levels of stress and overwhelm.  

Here are some steps to overcoming procrastination: 

1. When you find yourself procrastinating, ask the question: “why”?
2. Identify the tasks you are avoiding and take note of the things you choose to deal with instead.
3. Put one of those tasks you’ve been avoiding on top of your daily list and tackle it first thing in the morning. Don’t allow yourself to put it off because you’re ‘drowning’ in urgent matters. There will always be urgent matters!
4. Use the energy created by your internal pressure to intensify your focus on the task.
5. Make this a daily habit and don’t deviate from it unless the company is on fire.
6. Enjoy the sense of achievement once you’ve completed this task over which you had procrastinated. 
7. Marvel at how the sense of relaxation, that spreads through your body as a healthy by-product of the sense of achievement, enables you to deal far more efficiently and effectively with all other tasks.

If you follow these steps diligently you will eventually discover that  procrastination has become an issue of your past.

@Ridden (2006)