How Modern Technology Helps Us Avoid Procrastination

Too tired and lazy to get up? Have tons of research papers, essays, assignments, a difficult article, and various tasks to submit yet can’t get the energy to start working? As college students, we have all been here. With such a huge amount of work and so many pending assignments, part-time jobs, family and friends, it can get hard to manage everything so we end up procrastinating.

Procrastination is like a disease that is treatable if you stay on top of it. With the help of proper measures, you can easily stay on the top of your game and say goodbye to procrastination! We can see that technology has touched all the aspects of our lives and has made it better in one way or another.

From better communications systems to better educational facilities, technology has helped us everywhere. Similarly, when it comes to procrastination, technology plays the role of a knight in shining armor there as well!

With the help of various applications, reminders, etc. so can easily kick procrastination to the curb! The good news is: you can do it right from your phone or laptop.

There are several applications that have been designed specifically to keep your slacking off. Let’s see how you can use technological gadgets to help you avoid procrastination.

Track Your Activities

As the adage goes, “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. When it comes to managing time, nothing is truer than this. The first thing that you need to do is to track you activities, and yes, you need to track all of them.

Getting late every single morning? You need to track how long it takes for you to shower, have breakfast, get ready and out of the home. Due to the act of delaying tasks , even if it is a simple one, we fall behind in our daily activities. With this application, you will be able to see where it is that you are spending more time and what you can do to utilize your time in a better way.

Zero Willpower

Toggling over to your social media apps every 30 seconds? No technological advancement is going to help you if you don’t put a stop to that. With the help of this website blocking app, you can cut your interaction with apps like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and a lot more.

It is very hard for anyone to stay focused and give attention to a single task at hand. You can set timers and limit the social media freeze to a few minutes, few hours, as per your liking. No more wasting your hours scrolling through Facebook, people! Here are a few different methods of remaining motivated and productive.

Focus At Will

You know what puts the human brain in a full productivity mode? Yes, you guessed it right: Music. Music helps you improve your focus and you get your assignments done very quickly. In case you work in an open-plan office with lots of noise, it is very likely that you are going to be disturbed.  With the help of this application, you can listen to calming, soothing music that will help you focus and will stop you from getting distracted.

1-3-5 List

You start working, see the huge list of pending assignments, and you instantly get overwhelmed and stop working. What you need to do in such a situation, is to prioritize things. Start from easy assignments, then move on to slightly difficult ones, and then move on to the really difficult ones.

A lot of stress can be bad for your health, and we all know that if we are not organized and a lot of assignments are pending, as students we tend to go into a depressive phase. With the help of this application, you can choose things that you need to accomplish in one day and then check them one by one as you complete them!

Evernote

We think that a group project would make you want to work harder and motivate you. However, it turns out that we tend to procrastinate things even more when we are working with others. Don’t worry; we have your back with Evernote. With the help of this app, you can set reminders for all the members of your teams, save notes that are available across all the devices, create a to-do list, keep an eye on the progress of people, etc.

Final Word

With the right use of technological gadgets, you can save yourself a ton of pain and worry and move from being a procrastinator to a well-organized person. Use the various applications in the form of timers, calendars, etc. that technological gadgets offer you, set everything in your life right, and say goodbye to procrastination!

Here’s to a well-organized, punctual you!