The Fear Of Procrastination

To begin with, there are many factors that contribute to my procrastination. The first reason that I blame my procrastination on is being lazy. As stated in the article, Procrastination: Is Your Future Self Getting a Bad Deal, in the third paragraph, Timothy Pychyl says, “In a sense we’re passing the buck to our future self.” This quote shows that you are being lazy and giving your future self the burden of whatever task was assigned to you, instead of being proactive and completing the job. As an example of myself being lazy, if I have homework or projects due at a later date in time, such as in a week or two, I would choose not to do it. Eventually, I end up being piled on with other schoolwork that is due in more recent dates, and I end

Many of us can recognize that leaving things to the very last minute is not very wise and can cause an abundance of unnecessary stress. Procrastination is self-sabotage whether it’s to pay a credit card bill, fill up gas in your car, or complete your homework. Procrastination ranges from the most miniscule task to the most significant ones so the question is why do people procrastinate? For myself I rationalize this behavior by saying I work best under pressure but through my recent discoveries I found this isn’t true at all, it was just an excuse. The heavy pressure we feel when an important deadline is approaching physically forces us to complete our work but that doesn’t always mean that our work is good. Starting a project weeks before it is due guarantees that we had time to think and process your ideas therefore our work is our work is generally well-prepared. Starting an assignment the night before it’s due forces us to rush through it just to get it done it does not ensure that our best abilities are being put to use and usually ensures that our best abilities are being put to use and usually ensures that it’s satisfactory at its best from a psychological standpoint procrastinators can adapt

The two articles, 'The Procrastination Doom Loop- And How to Break It' and 'This Was Supposed To Be My Column For New Years' both provide much information about procrastination. One example is that it has more to do with emotion than time. In the article, written by Derek Thompson, he talks about how each of us recognizes it is important to go to the dentist, but still put it off. We look away from this because the pain is too upfront and the rewards are too small. Another example is having nothing to distract you and everything ready to go, but not writing an email back because you don't feel like it. Procrastination can be an effective tool for getting things done.

Procrastination was such a terrible habit for myself. It happens to be extremely difficult to prevent procrastinating as soon as a person has gotten into the habit of doing it. Being the procrastinator that I am, I usually postponed until the last minute to

Of course it is sometimes necessary and wise to postpone a decision or an action; but procrastination usually means putting things aside for tomorrow that should have been done yesterday. Procrastination is a thief of time; time is valuable and it is one thing in life you can not get back nor reverse. Another thing I have realized is everyone has the same amount of hours in a day. What does one do differently with his time from to be much more successful? Rationalizing, planning, and dedication are the ingredients that individual may have that another is lacking. If I want to be better as a writer, I have to stop being a procrastinator and construct more anticipation within

In “How to quit putting things off” by Julia McKinnell, published on macleans.ca on January 26th, 2011. (McKinnell, 2011) Piers Steel, author of The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things off and Start Getting Stuff Done, explains that procrastination is a real thing in many people lives. Piers is internationally known for his thoughts on procrastination. According to Piers, scrambling to finish up projects, postponed diets and disappointing people in our lives that depend on us, are some of the drawbacks of being a procrastinator.

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

There is a certain irony with procrastination, things we put off doing accumulate to the point of in manageability and feelings of anxiety increase which, is why we procrastinate anyway.

People are used to taking the road of less resistance, and as such tend to procrastinate more often than not. Just think about how many times you have said, “I would love to go to the gym today, but I have that barbeque tomorrow and I do not want to be sore”. There is a saying, “I do not have the time for the gym – I make

My dad, Cooper Mueggenberg, always felt that he had procrastinated too much while he was young. A quote he lived by was, “procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried”. One day in Math class he had a conversation with his teacher, Mr.Fisher, he realized that in order to fulfill his dream of being an elementary teacher he would have to change his ways.

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

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.

An equally important cause for procrastinating could be the laziness one might have. For a college student, several amounts of homework could be assigned within the first week of school, but the professor might state that those specific assignments to that class will be due at the end of the semester. So, one would say to themselves that there is plenty of time not to worry, so the student kicks back and worries about other things. Once, the end of the semester comes the person could have forgotten about the assignment that was given in the beginning of their school year. Now, there is little time to get the tasks finished and turned in, while other teachers in other classes might have assigned homework for the same due date as the other professor. Of course, at this point, the student regrets the decision that he or she might have made to procrastinate until a couple of days before the due date, now the

Procrastination is synonymous with hesitation, as this is a process by which people hesitate to complete a task rather than finishing it quickly. Some might wait until the last minute before a deadline, others may start a project and have trouble continuing where they have left off, and others may even procrastinate to the point of never completing a task in time. While not completing a task is not as definitive as procrastination as hesitation since procrastinators are generally known for doing their work. Procrastination is somewhat healthy while being unable or unwilling to complete needed jobs is inherently unhealthy. One might also say that procrastination in necessary to make informed decisions, to prepare for a speech or presentation that has to be delivered, or even to study for a test. The longer one waits, the more time one has to gather additional information informally and to come into the correct mindset to do good work. To utilize the examples above one may wait to commit to a date or social gathering due to the possibility of other tasks that may need to be prioritized. As far as giving a presentation or speech, one must not only know the content, he or she must also be physiologically prepared to face an audience and this can be quite stressful. This might mean gathering the materials for the presentation more informally yet not completing the speech preparation until right before it is given, so