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

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 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

     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.

Procrastination is dangerous for any leader that desires to be highly successful. The basis is because as noted previously time touches every area of life. If an individual do not know how to lead oneself through the restrictions of

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 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

Some people do not realize they are procrastinators because of some personality disorders. A personality disorder called passive-aggressive is “chronic conditions which make a person seem to comply with the desires and needs of others, but actually passively resist them. They become increasingly hostile and angry” (Moore & Jefferson).The cause of this disorder is unknown but some of its symptoms are, avoiding responsibility by claiming to forget, having fear of authority, procrastinating, and resisting other people’s suggestions. Counseling can help and identify the problem if it is treated at an early stage (Moore & Jefferson).

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

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.

When you conquer procrastination, you will learn what it is, how it happens and finally experience success by not allowing it to happen again.

"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

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

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.

Procrastinating comes in a few stages, the first is receiving the assignment. Receiving the assignment and due date sparked the lies of “oh I’ll start this as soon as I get home,” or “I’m actually going to get this done early so I don’t have to worry about it.” So i psych myself up to be motivated to finish it early although it never works out that way.