12 November 2026
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How To Deal With Procrastination? IAS Divya Mittal Has Solutions

"Procrastination is when you keep postponing important tasks. If you do this frequently - you're not alone! Use these tactics from 7 famous books which will help you overcome procrastination.
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Procrastination is not an easy challenge to handle with. Even we all have faced it at one point or another. For as long as humans have been around, we have been struggling with delaying, avoiding, and procrastinating on issues that matter to us. So how to deal with it and whats solution of it?

2013-batch IAS officer of UP cadre and current DM of Mirzapur, Divya Mittal has the answer. She suggested some book that can help to win over procrastination.

Ms Mittal regularly passes on tips and advices on how to progress in life. This time, the IIM Bengaluru and IIT Delhi alumnus has shared some important tips on how to handle procrastination and win over it. Her latest Twitter thread went viral on social media. It has 575 retweets, 2358 likes and more than 2 lakh 78 thousand views.

Talking about procrastination, In a long twitter thread, she tweeted, “Procrastination is when you keep postponing important tasks. If you do this frequently – you’re not alone! Use these tactics from 7 famous books which will help you overcome procrastination.”

Then, she tweeted, “Atomic Habits” by James Clear

👉 Use the “two-minute rule” to get started on a task

👉 Make the task so simple that it takes 2 mins. You can’t say no to it and build momentum from there

👉Make your goals specific and measurable”


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