Technology vs. Procrastination.. How to get your tasks done without procrastination?

In the world of today where there’s so much information and apps one has at their fingertips, it is so easy to get caught up in social media or watching such short videos that one forgets to do what needs to be done.

Where technology was the problem, it could actually become part of the solution: digital innovation has yielded many tools and apps that aid with organization of time, improvement of focus and productivity, and encouragement of healthy habits.

Technology can help in working against procrastination from task management apps to distraction blockers, it can all be used to use as a motive to work, which would naturally eventually reduce procrastination.

Understanding the causes of procrastination

In the age where we are submerged deep in the sea of information and digital media, procrastination has become more common. With stress, fear of failure, and even digital entertainment’s instant gratification of dopamine, in the first example, we call procrastination a bad habit, but it’s actually a complex psychological behavior.

The main obstacle is perfectionism – people dread doing tasks because they know they will not be able to do them perfectly.

The second barrier to focus involves constant distraction through YouTube and TikTok.

The first thing you need to do before you crack the problem is understanding the cause as there are lot of causes and the most predominant out of it is that you feel exhausted when you have more than a few tasks to deal with.

When faced with difficult or boring tasks, people tend to escape to surfing the internet or watching videos.

Certainly, technology has contributed to making this worse because it puts out this thing — entertainment content — that the people need to be productive with.

Reversing the equation: When technology becomes a productivity tool

Procrastination has been made easier to spread by technology, but still technology does offer options that can be used as a boost towards productivity.

A smartphone or a computer can be turned from a distraction into a tool for the accomplishment of goals with the suitable digital tools.

Time management apps

Managing your time is a main issue faced by many people, but with applications such as Google Calendar, Trello and Notion, you can plan the daily tasks and arrange your projects.

It is possible to set important moments for every activity you have, which are work appointments, breaks, and more, thus ensuring that everything is clear and very easy.

The list making app, Trello can break a larger task on smaller, actionable chunks.

Despite Notion supplies an integrated workspace to use organizing your long time goals and daily notes, but ensuring all is linked and organized.

Focus enhancing apps

Some tools are needed to stay focused, and essential, of course, is managing time, but apps like Forest, Freedom and the Pomodoro technique, help them.

Focus is forested as you plant a virtual tree when you are focusing on a task.

When you lose focus, the digital tree dies and now you are emotionally responsible for a small digital tree.

Additionally, you can earn cryptocurrencies through Forest to be associated with the planting of real trees in the real world.

It helps you block distracting sites in the course of work hours for freedom reducing distractions and improving productivity.

Using the pomodoro productivity technique ensures that you don’t get too tired and helps you stay focused with work for 25 minutes then taking a break for 5 minutes.

Pomodoro technique helps you get prepared for productive work by telling you that a working break is only 5 minutes far.

Positive reinforcement with technology

Besides time management and improving focus, habit tracking apps like Habitica are very effective for increasing achievement.

The Habitica app is free and takes the everyday task and turns it into a motivator digital challenge and you are rewarded for doing so.

On the other hand, you will be able to collect these small rewards to get new clothes and equipment for you virtual character in the digital game.

Building Better Habits Using Technology

To actually overcome procrastination, one has to go through a process of radical change in the way one is behaving, and that’s why technology offers itself as something to trigger these beneficial habits.

You have a lot of apps based on the principles of the behavioral psychology because the rules of the positivism and smart remind allows the acquisition of new habits and the getting rid of the bad ones.

They will help you to push things away and get things done, or change up your habits so that they’re more productive, or reduce the mental fatigue from having to make many decisions, or reduce distracting things, or a more whole picture, as technology shouldn’t be time wasting, it should be making you more productive.

There is also an obsession with perfection that disappears because these apps teach you to small start and make progress instead of perfection.

In this, while technology is a large contributing factor, it is also formed out of some great technology tools that can be productively utilized, using it smartly for increased productivity and creating more sustainable habits by changing how we interact with technology.

At this time, we should be embracing the fact that we are not passive consumers of content, rather, we can become active users that take advantage of digital tools.

The key to doing away with our unconscious time-wasting with technology is all about having smart time management practices, focus boosting tools, and committing to habit building practices for certain actions, so that technology becomes an ally in achieving our goals, instead of an enemy.