5 Facts About Procrastination

peter1510 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:04:34 +0000

Procrastination is an obstacle to one’s success in life. Some would even consider it as a disease, an illness that needs to be cured because its becoming a problem that affects his/her life and relationships with his/her family. So here are 5 facts that may help us understand procrastination better:

Procrastinators are made not born. I have mentioned it here in my previous posts and it is true, procrastinators are developed with in time and we cannot make it an excuse that we were born as one. There could be several factors on how it is developed. For instance, parents tolerate their children’s laziness. The advent of technology can also be a reason because most children becomes more of a couch potato rather than going outside and get themselves active.
Procrastination is not a matter of time management or planning. Procrastinators can plan for their activities or they can manage their time. The problem is that they don’t do what they have planned or have put on their schedule. If only we do what is set on our schedule, we can finish it early or just in time. The problem is, we do other things which are usually of less importance.
Procrastinators have a lot of reasons on why they have to delay their work. One good example and most commonly used is that they are not in the mood to do their task in that moment that is why they do other things. But if we wait for the time when we get in the mood to do it, it might just be too late already.
Procrastinators distract themselves as a way of regulating their emotions. They look for activities that does not usually take a lot of commitment.
Procrastination can be stopped. For procrastinators, they should know that they can stop it and instead, get themselves motivated to work. They should work on overcoming it before it gets worse.

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5 Facts About Procrastination