Procrastination : Is It Pure Laziness Or Are We Predisposed At Putting Things Off?

Defeat procrastination by learning what it is, how it happens and experience victory by not allowing it to become a habit. Following simple steps

Attention Getter: A famous author by the name of Wayne Dyer once said, “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is incredibly heavy.”(1) In todays society it seems as if procrastination has become a normal and acceptable thing to do. It is often joked about amongst schoolmates and co-workers around the world. Nothing seems to get done until it absolutely needs to get done, then everyone runs around getting things done quickly and often times inaccurately. The trouble with this mentality however is that some things will never get done because something will come up tomorrow or the next day and what you are putting off now gets pushed even further back. Today I will persuade you to stop this habit from continuing. I will be explaining the problems we face when dealing with procrastination as well as how to deal with it and actions you can take to prevent it in the future.

     Procrastination is something that you don’t naturally have an innate ability to do. It is often brought on by finding ways

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

Procrastination to many people can be a character builder. Procrastination can in many cases create very successful student, because it forces you to preform at a much higher level than normal to complete the task at hand. The rare few people like me, that can handle pressure, typically have very busy lives that prevent things that are planned, to be done on time, and in a timely manner. For example, when you are given an assignment with a specific due date by your teacher that has to be completed by a certain time, but you wait until the night before to get it done. I must admit, I am too guilty of doing this. Often times, people that procrastinate, work really well under pressure, and in very stressful situations. For instance, instead of working your regular eight hour shift you are asked

Procrastination is a bad habit of delaying or postponing something until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. As Mason Cooley says, “Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.” I am sure that all of you here have procrastinated at one time or another. I most definitely have. Teenagers do it all the time with

There are people who consider procrastination as a good thing and so they welcome it into their lives supposing it would favor them because initially they are less affected to stress and illnesses. However, in long-term it only makes their lives more complicated. Anderson, B., Middleton, M., and Llewellyn, S. (2013) claim that

     Procrastination is the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplished. Procrastination has a high potential for painful consequences. It may interfere with our personal or academic success.

Everybody knows that good habits need to be cultivated while bad habits seem to grow like weeds. Habits like self-discipline, self-control, order, and perseverance, are all habits that require a conscious effort to create and maintain. Procrastination on the other hand, is a behavior takes no effort at all. For better or worse, it's your habits that make or break you.

Procrastination is, for many individuals, a fact of life. Delaying until later an activity which would best be done right away, despite knowing that the delay will likely have a variety of negative effects, such as increased stress or decreased quality of work, is a common behavior. However, until recently, the psychological explanation for procrastination was more or less unknown. Starting in 1997, researchers began to look into the behaviors inherent in and effects of chronic procrastination. A recently published paper by Eric Jaffe, a member of the Association for Psychological Science, titled Why Wait? The Science Behind Procrastination, examined the results of these researchers’ work, and attempted to explain the resulting theories and concepts.

Procrastination is like a disease or virus found in each and every one of us. We would have experience it at least once in our lifetime, but believe me, I am not wrong if I say that all of us are going through it all the time. Nowadays, the Ministry of Education emphasises on creativity. Whatever we students do now need to instil the elements of innovation and creativity.

Jim has appealed to his boss for months: “I’m ready for more responsibility. I’m ready to be taken more seriously.”

The article The Causes and Effects of Procrastination, retrieved from the website UK essays, and Procrastination: A Positive or Negative, by John Michael Federici, both addressed issues regarding the pros and cons that the act of procrastination will bring upon to its user. Both author discussed about procrastination, the act of delaying the work. Authors of each article has their very own unique perspective in how they view on the act of procrastination, with both representing their points followed by a very strong arguments and fact in order to convince the readers. The act of procrastination happens in our everyday life either it is performed by us or it is done by the people around us, and this act can personally affect the procrastinator itself and also people whom are involved with them. The author for The Causes and Effects of Procrastination, mostly has a stand that shows disagreement on the act of procrastination,

In his essay “Why We Procrastinate,” Estroff Marano states that procrastination damages oneself and hinders one’s progress. Moreover, he feels, as a nation, we fail to recognize the grievousness of this bad habit, and the consequences that occur with this learned behavior. According to the author alcohol consumption, deception, and lack of engagement are a few of the destructive and costly outcomes. Marano concludes that with therapy, procrastinators can replace their harmful habits with healthier ones. I agree with Marano that chronic procrastinators have undesirable patterns of behavior that prevents them from being successful and impedes them from having healthy relationships. Three of the most common reasons why people procrastinate

"Coping with Procrastination" by Rebecca Moore, Barbara Baker, and Arnold Packer is an essay that explains why people procrastinate and how to deal with it. This essay says that people mostly procrastinate because they don’t know how