Are you the one who dreams about achieving heights but wonder why you haven’t yet reached there? Have you realized that this is due to your habit of procrastination? Well that is a good start! But you still wonder why you keep procrastination. Read on to know 6 reasons that make you procrastinate.
No goal:
When you are not sure about what you want to accomplish, you set that task aside and start thinking about it (or day dreaming) or choose another task. This ‘undefined’ task will be on your list until you set clear goals about what to achieve and have an action plan for the same. This is the most common reason that people end up hesitating in starting a task, thus procrastinating the same.
Overwhelming:
When the task has to be done amidst a heap of other important tasks, you simply choose to procrastinate this one task, thinking for good, but it isn’t actually. This usually happens when you are not good at prioritizing tasks, you could have avoided the overwhelming feeling otherwise.
Tasks of no interest:
When a task involves actions that are so boring, say if it will take half a day waiting at an office, or involves intense copy-paste, then it is natural to postpone it. This is not so serious, since it is good to postpone such tasks, rather than being unproductive. You can rather choose another task that is of interest to you to refresh your mind and body and take up this task at a later time.
Tasks that demand more than your expertise:
When you have no background knowledge that is required to execute a task, you need to gain expertise first. Such tasks will appear alarming and you simply won’t have the confidence to start it until you think that you have got enough expertise to deal with it. So you procrastinate the task until you gain the required expertise. This is not bad, unless you take a very long time in which case you may be demotivated.
Fear of failure:
In this case you don’t start tasks fearing about what will happen after. You hesitate to start and this hesitation slowly builds up into something big leading to multiple procrastinations. You just need to overcome this fear by yourself and somehow make your mind to be prepared for any kind of a result. Just tell yourself that you won’t care about the result but will simply put your hard work in place.
Laziness:
You probably don’t need an explanation for this. You procrastinate things because you are just lazy and it is so hard for you to sit on your butt and get things done. You simply cannot kick start your first draft. You just have to make up your mind and overcome the laziness that makes you to postpone your tasks for no reason.
Article by JaneSheeba
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In my experience, one way to combat laziness is by having a to do list and a day schedule. It really works for me and as a matter of fact it motivates me to finish my do list early so that for the rest of the day, i can have all the relaxation that i want.
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