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Lots of people shift their work, event, or activity meant for a particular time to another moment. They delay, shun, and avoid those activities just because they don’t want to do the work at that moment, even though they know the activity is important and will have grave repercussions if they fail to do it.
They postpone the work meant to be attended to immediately simply because they want to attend to other things, or they just want to push it forward. This attitude is called procrastination.
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Why Procrastinating
We all procrastinate at one time or the other. We do this because we find a task difficult, or that we are aversive to the work.
We procrastinate because we feel an activity is boring or stressful. Sometimes we are overwhelmed, feeling the work is compelling, or rather enormous for us to embark on. At times we procrastinate because of low self-esteem.
Repercussions
When you abandon the work meant for a moment till another time, the effect is that what you should have achieved for that day doing the work may not be accomplished again.
The benefits earmarked for a particular task at a particular moment will not wait; hence the opportunity is lost, and it may have been lost forever never to be regained.
Procrastination can be a hurdle to progress, success, and breakthrough. This is because you tend to push forward the work meant for today.
Procrastination may appear to give you short-term benefits in that you feel you are neglecting what you don’t want to do, but the abandonment of the task will eventually lead to long-term costs.
Procrastination will block you from getting up, and be a barrier to making the right decision that will elevate you in life.
How to Stop Procrastinating
Start things in a little way. Break activities into bits so that they will not appear too big for you, or that they may not discourage you.
Have a Work Schedule
Schedule your activities, or allocate time to them so that you know what you want to do at a specific time.
Complete Activities at a Time
Always endeavour to complete an activity. Don’t do things halfway. Finish the task you embark on at a time.
Deal with things that will divert your Attention
Always concentrate on your activities. Don’t be distracted. Be sold into what you engage in at a particular time, rather than getting distracted.
Reward
Look for how to reward performing an activity.
Rewarding yourself after activity will motivate you to perform a task.
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