Procrastination: what is procrastination, why do we procrastinate and how to stop and overcome it.

Types of procrastination.

Different types of procrastination are: –

1. Perfectionist procrastination.
2. Avoidance procrastination.
3. Decision-making procrastination.
4. Deadline-Driven procrastination
5. Busy procrastination.
6. Overwhelming procrastination.
7. Impulsive procrastination.
8. Anxiety-based procrastination.
9. Pleasure-seeking procrastination.
10. Passive procrastination.

    

Why do we procrastinate and Reasons behind procrastination?

The reasons behind procrastination are: –

• The fear of failure, success and judgement.
• Be perfectionist.
• The unrealistic and high standards of doing things or complecting.
• Having lack of interest or bored in doing task or work.
• Worrying about things or anxiety.
• Prioritizing instant gratification or enjoyment on complecting difficult task or work.
• Bad time management skills.
• Poor focus or distraction.
• No appreciation or rewards delay.
• Emotion related issues.
• Lack of motivation and support.
• Biasness or overconfidence.

  

In what ways procrastination affects us.

It affects us in the following way: –

• It causes emotional and psychological effects like stress, guilt, shame, self-esteem or burnout.
• It also effects are productivity and performances like missing of deadlines, decrease in efficiency and lack in knowledge or development skill.
• It also effect is sleeping schedules.
• It also causes illness and health issues.
• It makes us develop trust issues.
• It also affects our relationship.
• It led us to miss our opportunities.
• It affects our career goals.
• It also causes negativity.
• It also led to feeling of regrets and sadness.

  

The trigger points for procrastination.

Some trigger points of procrastination are feeling, emotion, fear, delaying of work, lack of interest, lack of clarity, negative self-talk, distraction and overconfidence.

How to stop and overcame procrastination?

We can stop procrastination in the following ways: –

1. First identify the causes.
2. By taking smaller step to break bigger problem.
3. Set your goals and deadline.
4. Promote time management activities.
5. Prioritize yourself and your work.
6. Stop yourself from distraction.
7. Overcome from perfectionism.
8. Reward and appreciation.
9. Change your environment.
10. Reduce negativity.

    

Benefits of Procrastination.

Some benefits of Procrastination are: –

• It enhances are creativity.
• It improves are decision-making.
• It helps us to priorities our-self.
• It helps us stay motivated.
• To manage are stress.
• Help us to encourage are simplification.
• To avoid unnecessary work.
• Build a strategic thinking.
• Help us to improve emotion.
• Build self-awareness.

  

The myths about procrastination.

Some myths about procrastination are: –

1. It is a sign of laziness.
2. It is reasons of unproductivity.
3. It is harmful.
4. It is reasons for failure.
5. It causes time pressure.
6. It cause low achievement.
7. It is a character trait.
8. It makes us impossible to do task.
9. It makes us less intelligence.
10. It cause poor disciple.

Technology and social media on procrastination.

There is a huge significates and role of technology and social media on procrastination like social media platform causes Instant reward like “like, comments and notification which causes instant pleasures and constant need to update our self. Adapt from this it also causes FOMO.

Whereas the technology provides easy distraction, escape from task and felling of overwhelming and unappealing.

Can we make procrastination normal?

Yes, we can normalize procrastination, as it makes us acknowledging our behavior, feeling and emotion. If we recognize the reasons and causes of are procrastination we can use or improve it for our betterment.

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