1. Break Down Tasks:

The major cause of procrastination among students is the sheer volume of work. While it’s expected of you to complete tasks within the deadline, it can become overwhelming pretty fast. The pressure of assignments can plummet your encouragement within seconds and leave you procrastinating. To avoid such an incident, try breaking down the tasks to a bare minimum and take one at a time.

2. Make a Schedule:

Hit the complex tasks first. Gradually take on the tasks depending on complexity and your understanding ability. Allot more time for the assignments which you think can take the longest. Break them down. Assign yourself deadlines to complete the homework before the due dates.

3. Eliminate Distractions:

Procrastination needs excuses. If you give it enough, you might not even start ever. Remove distractions like mobiles and game stations from your room to focus more on the task at hand. Following the elimination, when you won’t have anything to do except study, you’d not be procrastinating anymore.

4. Dynamic Scenery:

Try relocating your table once in a while. Change the background, change the wallpaper. Whatever you do, just don’t let yourself be bored of the same scenario. You can try keeping a plant on your table to feel more natural while studying. Water it, take care of it.

5. Group Study:

Study in groups. Serious groups. If your friends are procrastinators, try avoiding them while making the group. Invite your academic friends over and arrange a study session. If the ones around you are indulged in doing something, you’d most likely not be able to procrastinate anymore. Try communicating with them while studying, but don’t be a cause of distraction.

6. Avoid Perfectionism:

It’s common for students to avoid such tasks that they think are unmanageable. Being a perfectionist may go a long way in the professional world, but submitting a not-so-perfect assignment is not detrimental to your academic career. After all, you are here to learn. Procrastinating to avoid not being perfect is not the best approach to any problem. Keep practicing and revising, you’ll get there one day.

7. Take Small Breaks:

Have you ever heard about the Pomodoro technique? It’s a Japanese time management trick that lets you study in short bursts. Take short breaks after studying for half an hour. Repeat it 4 times. Take a longer break following the completion of 4 cycles.

8. Get Sleep:

Not having enough sleep is a major cause of procrastination. Try sleeping the whole 8-hours at night and avoid daytime naps. If you train your body to take rest whenever it can, you are just promoting procrastination.

The Bottom Line:

Students procrastinate. It’s an open secret. But you can minimize your procrastination by acting. Encouragement comes from action, not the other way around. If you wait for encouraging words from your friends to not procrastinate, it’s not going to happen. But if you try to start operating, encouragement will come eventually.