Procrastination and how to beat it

Sometimes, you feel like taking time off to relieve stress or whatever. This is a good thing. However, sometimes when you take time off work you kinda fall into a rut and are unable to get back on track again. This is a bad thing. It's called procratination.

Have you ever feel so burned out working on a project that just the thought of going back to do it again fills you with dread? Well, not really dread hah hah. More like apathy. You keep looking and looking at the project and finally abandons it.

So how do we avoid this situation? Well, there are two ways to go about it. Inspiration, and desperation.

Inspiration
Why would someone feel general malaise about their project. The depressive feelings most probably came from the fact that a person has worked on a project for a year and has not received any rewards or compensation out of it yet. This is due to the fact that humans suffer from the instant gratification syndrome. I just made that up but, yeah this is the crux of the matter.

So how do we inspire these people? Have people look at the project and say how good it is and how much money it will make when it is completed. Say stuff like only 30% more to go and you're a billionaire even though there's more than 50% to work on. Look at other companies who has done similar project and convince the procrastinator he/she will be one of them after they completed the last 30%. Keep filling the procrastinator with small rewards to ease their hunger for instant gratification.

Desperation
On the other spectrum are people whose ego are so huge they verges on apathy. They think they can do anything, even finish the last 50% of a project anytime that they actually let it languish than finishing it. How do we deal with these people? Pure mental shock. We need to jar their minds to make them understand their situation. Threaten to throw them out of their homes, cut off their supply of entertainment, etc. Tell them that all they get to eat is a loaf of bread and water everyday until they finish their project and make money out of it.

And there you have it, 2 ways to beat procrastination, the dreaded mind killer. You will burn your dread!