You get up in the morning with the resolution to finish all the due work, do your chores, sit over work till it turns alive and starts panting for breath. But guess what, you have an obligation to give some breathing space to that alive piece of work howling at you, right?

So, you decide to check what people are up to. One click. New tab. Facebook, Twitter, Gmail. And then you have notifications to check, emails to reply to. Fifteen minutes, one hour, three hours spent. You realize you have to get back to work. You start working again.

But then you have been sitting like that for hours and its getting boring and you need a break. That follows, well, facebook, twitter, mail, and other things on the web that attracts you like a magnet.

In the end, time wasted- seventy percent, work done- thirty percent, remorse- hundred percent.

Phew! Isn’t it a vicious cycle, most of us are subject to?

Slacking and Procrastination: Lead heroes of your vicious cycle

The problem is with the habit of slacking, of sitting over a thing for ages. Why do we do that?

But then at the end of the day, before you hit the bed you realize, oh heck, I have so much to do and I have been procrastinating. You pull up your socks then and get done with your work and sometimes you don’t, giving it as a gift to your tomorrow.

Still, at the end of the day you are exhausted. You didn’t work throughout the day, but you didn’t take a break either.

Where did the time go? Oh, but you did waste your time on that wicked thing called the internet, remember?

You would have definitely heard about ten books and 15 blogs that tell you how you should keep yourself focused, concentrate on the task in hand and keep looking at the goals. Most of us even try.

But heck! it doesn’t work. Stop jordaning and admit the irresistible urge one face to do everything that has nothing to do with the work in hand.

As a matter of fact, the last minute work when your ass is on fire (constituting 10% of your time you sat on your work), produce 100% result. The remaining 90% of your time, you just sat on it, slacking and procrastinating. This causes your efficiency to nosedive and fall on you as exhaustion and drench you with ennui.

So, let’s party!

Spend only that 10% of the requisite time on the work. That is any way all it takes. And let your mind and time do other things in the remaining time, eat, pray, love, read, romance, travel and yes, party!