Celebrate every completed step!

Many will confess they procrastinate but still have no clue why or how to overcome it.

Here's something interesting I found when reading up about this problem: we procrastinate most when we are in a bad mood. When you are up and cheery, you are ready to tackle any task, but when you are down and grumpy, no task is desirable, no matter how easy it may be.

Why dilly dally when in a bad mood? Apparently it's a mood-management technique we use, believing if we wait and distract ourselves with 'other activities' (and not do work) our mood will change!

So how, what are we to do?

Well the experts say we need to focus on creating happiness and optimism instead.

How? Monitor the progress you are making and celebrate it.

Are you making progress in your work in life (even what you consider a small progress, IS progress)? Have you been purposely monitoring your progress?
Have you celebrated every achievement, every completed step, phase or goal? Don't wait this its fully completed, experienced, solved - celebrate every little victory.

Here's where I get stuck. I don't know how to celebrate and feel awkward, sometimes even guilty, for celebrating a SMALL victory (believing it's not yet completed, celebrate only AFTER the work is fully completed). So I got some mind-traps to overcome and something new to learn - the art of celebrating.

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