Procrastination Analysis

It was about two weeks earlier; I had just started the assignment that we had the whole semester to complete. My laziness level was at an all-time high but, reluctantly I knew I had to begin. I didn’t even know where to start; all of my classmates were miles ahead of me. “Better just start at the beginning” I thought to myself. So that’s what I did, at a point in the semester I was supposed to be nearly complete. Not to mention this assignment was about 25% of my final grade. That 25% is something I needed as I didn’t have the best work ethic, this would either make or break my final grade.

I like to think there are four levels of procrastination. The first is false security, the “I still have plenty of time, I can finish this later.” The second is laziness, the thoughts like,“I should probably get this started. Nah.” Next comes denial and excuses such as, “I would start this, but I’m doing something else right now.” and, “I’m just taking a little break.” Then finally the crisis stage, the stage during which you stay up all night long in order to finish the homework assignment you had all day to do. Because of this, the hardest part of my daily routine was the time when I knew I needed to start my homework, but I truly wanted to keep watching shows on Netflix. This wouldn't be as difficult if it weren't

     To procrastinate is to put off doing something out of casual carelessness or common laziness. It often needlessly postpones or delays events or objectives in your life which can effect others. Procrastination is almost like a drug in your life, because once you start doing it a little bit, it slowly adds up to a dependency that you will find to be common habit. Although this is what we all perceive procrastination to be bad, there are some benefits to it. It can have beneficial impact on how you take pressure, or how well you can act when time is limited.

Procrastination is a common tendency that we all give in to and all of us have at least a little experience with.

At this time of the year, while everybody is so ready for Christmas break and vacation, I’m facing a nightmare called “tomorrow is due day". I was so relaxed and subjective the whole week that I don't have any initiative or what I'm going to write for my final paper. Suddenly, an “idea bulb” popped up in my head and lightened. I decided to explore my problem : procrastinating. After 2 hours researching in the library which seems like a decade to me, I finally found a 9-million-views speech “Inside the mind of a master procrastinator” by Tim Urban who immediately motivated me through this talk. Graduated from Harvard University, Tim Urban is now a blog-writer, also an illustrator of “Wait But Why” site where he writes posts about life, happiness,

Another factor that causes procrastination is fear. Fear is a very powerful emotion. Whenever someone is faced with a difficult task, they can become overran by the fear of not being able to complete it. People who succumb to this are setting themselves up for failure. Whenever someone feels as if they are going to fail, they tend to postpone the task for as long as possible. This means that they often try to avoid the task all together until completion is absolutely necessary. In doing so, the number of tasks that need to be done increases. However, the time required to complete them does not.

Procrastination is one of my biggest flaws and I am aware of it. This weakness usually results with working on the project under stress while chasing the clock in order to deliver on time. On the other hand, I like to get involved in new challenges such as co-founding an NGO for urban and cultural development with my friends.

Since high school, my teachers have always told me not to procrastinate. I did not even know what the word “procrastinate” meant until my freshmen year of high school, which was stupid of me. Let’s just say I let my procrastination skills go into full force, which led my group and I to not place in the final ten at the FBLA national conference in our competition.

Millions of people struggle with completing goals and overcoming challenges due to the habit of procrastination. In fact, it 's one of the most common personal issues that people seek help for. There are several reasons why people procrastinate or avoid tasks. They can range from simple, basic laziness to fear of failure, lack of confidence in your ability, or simply a strong dislike for the task at hand.

Procrastination is one of the frequently practiced counterproductive behaviors of people or wasteful management practices of individuals (Ariely, D. and Wertenbroch, K. 2002).Procrastination means the delaying of work necessary to reach a goal, http://www.procrastinus.com. Procrastination is to put off doing something (The American Heritage Dictionary). As Beswick & Mann (1994) pointed out, it is a delaying of the beginning or the completing of a task of an organization. Procrastination is unreasonable task delaying behavior (Sabini & Silver, 1982). Procrastination may be put off work on a specific task, or the recurring tendency to put off tasks in general (Ariely, D. and Wertenbroch, K.

Did you believe that the most successful people are procrastinating from time to time? Even teachers, doctors and most popular people. Procrastination it is a normal process that we do it daily with unawares but if we go back one step and define the term (procrastinating), according to oxford dictionary procrastinating is ‘Delay or postpone action; put off doing something’ (Press, 2015). It absolutely has a positive and negatives effects and its effect also our psychological and physiological sides. People talk a lot about procrastination and they try to avoid get used to it, it sure has a benefit but the dangers is more speared between people. Most people find a solution that good and useful such as using a phone to remember the task has been avoiding (alarm) or the planner to organize their times.

Most of us often think that procrastinating task will means that we undoubtedly ruining it as we might not have enough time to do it properly. I personally ruminate that it depends on what situation we are in. If we indeed have difficulties in doing the task, I consider it necessary for us to step back for a while so that we can relax our brain so that we can have clearer mind. According to S.Mcclathy (2015) procrastinating our task, we can boost our energy and critical thinking as fear of the upcoming dateline will rush our adrenaline hence boosting our creative mind. That fear releases adrenaline, a natural pain killer, and feeling less pain makes doing difficult or less desirable tasks easier. Energy is the strongest benefit of procrastination (S.Mcclathy, 2015). Based on my experience I generally agree with this point because I had procrastinated my task a few time back then and surprisingly I managed to think better when I rushed myself to get it done. The fear of failure to submit the task on time triggered me to think beyond what I can. Being a procrastinator myself, believe that it is true sometime we can work and perform better under pressure. If you have a huge, important task ahead of you, it's natural to procrastinate because it's so

Every human being procrastinate. Procrastination comes to a person naturally, it only becomes important when you begin to procrastinate deliberately. When you start looking for reasons and other issues just to procrastinate your work then it is a very bad habit and you will need to rectify it right away.

It can also be easy to be under the influence of people and situations in our lives that we find ourselves procrastinating instead of doing the things that is important to us.

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