Procrastination is a word that is not familiar to everyone. However, the meaning of this phenomenon is very simple and everyone has encountered it at least once in a lifetime. Constantly putting off unpleasant or even important matters for later is the main symptom of this disease. How to get rid of procrastination and have time to do everything on time?
Sometimes procrastination is confused with laziness. And this is not surprising: both of them have the same result: unfulfilled homework, an undelivered report, and incomplete term paper. This list goes on and on. A common feature of everything listed in it will be the lack of the expected result. However, laziness differs from this phenomenon in that it is an almost complete unwillingness to work, a tendency to parasitism and idleness. In the case of procrastination, everything is somewhat different, as will be described in more detail below.
Root of evil
There are several reasons explaining why a person does not solve his problems upon receipt, but puts them off indefinitely. Most often, these are various psychological barriers:
- Emotional discomfort. In this case, the person understands that the business that he needs to deal with, for one reason or another, is unpleasant for him and therefore does not start him immediately.
- Uncertainty. Fear of failure is what makes people not only put off solving critical tasks, but also refuse to fulfill them in principle. However, if the work is obligatory and it is impossible to do it in any way, the person constantly pushes the task to be carried out, because he is afraid to do something wrong.
- Lack of regime and work plan. The peculiarity of those who are prone to this phenomenon is that they often do their work at the last moment. They say that their time to complete everything is disastrously small, but in fact the opposite is true. They just do not have a clear plan of action and motivation to be on time, so instead of doing what is really important, the procrastinator is distracted by something insignificant.
- The task assigned to a person is important not as he sees it. Sometimes it can be completely uninteresting. In this case, there is a lack of motivation.
- It seems to the procrastinator that he is losing control of his life and is in the grip of other people and their interests. This leads to uncertainty, anxiety and because of this there is a fear of correcting the situation.