A friend once told me that "procrastination to do something you ought to do by a minute or a second can give you delayed result".
Delayed result was it for me cause I wondered why some things I ought to have achieved haven't come to play and why some people I know have delayed results in their lives and procrastination just keeps ringing in my ears again and again. It is more like an in thing for this generation.
You know, it is very easy to procrastinate doing a thing you want to do than actually doing it. It is easier to sleep than to wake up early to pray and go to work either as an employer or an employee, it is easier to eat than to exercise, it is easier to read a novel than to read your bible, more recently, it is easier to chat than to google something new to enlighten us. I can go on and on about the easiest things to do.
Procrastination according to the Wikipedia "is the avoidance of doing a task which needs to be accomplished.
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It is the practice of doing more pleasurable things in place of less
pleasurable ones, or carrying out less urgent tasks instead of more
urgent ones, thus putting off impending tasks to a later time.
Sometimes, procrastination takes place until the "last minute" before a
deadline."
So i was asking myself why would you get a desired result when you haven't done what you ought to have done? I decided to do a little googling to help me explain the reasons we procrastinate and how well we can remedy them to get the desired results we want and not the delayed results we don't need.
CAUSES OF PROCRASTINATION
There were so many enlisted but I had to pick a few I could relate with and here they are.
1)
Lack of motivation: I can so relate with this because there are moments when as much as I want to do what I want to do, I don't just have that push or drive inside of me to go ahead and do it. The only way i deal with this moment is that I look at the reason and the purpose for which am doing what needs to be done and this somehow braces me up to wanting to "manage" to do it.
For instance, writing on procrastination when I know that I do it once in a while, it's just because I had you in mind I could stay up to this hour to write and post this. Meanwhile, if am talking about procrastination, why do I need to procrastinate to talk about it?
2)
Fear of the outcome: One thing is to not be motivated and another thing is your thoughts of your not getting your desired result even when you would have done it.
F.E.A.R- Future
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You have to let go of your fears, work on your mind and do the needful. It's your choice as to what acronym works for you.
3)
Laziness: Yes, yes and yes! Some of us are just simply lazy to do what we ought to. We don't have no excuse of no motivation or fear of the outcome, we are just waiting for the rush hour moment before we see reasons to do it. This can cause you a whole lot so be careful for laziness breeds failure.
4)
Fatigue: This is simply physical or mental tiredness. Exhausted from your work, family, thoughts, not having enough rest, not sleeping on time and waking up early, etc are all ways to gaining fatigue. Truth be told, when you are exhausted you can't be so effective.
Give yourself a little rest treat, keep your eyes away from electronic gadgets for a few hours, relax your mind from all your worries, play soft music and travel to lala land within that time. Shut down your system totally and wake up feeling re-energized.
5)
Lack of focus: Have you ever taken your time to ask a few people what they want to achieve within the space of five years and heard their replies? My heart breaks when I realize there are people without a vision, goal and focus. People who fall in this category are always prone to procrastinating because they really have no reason to do what they want to do. They might be doing it because they see others doing it or because it is trending at that particular period of time. Lack of focus is a terrible thing and an inexcusable reason to procrastinate.
PROCRASTINATION is something we all do and it robs us of productivity. Recognize when you are procrastinating and refuse to be a subject to it.
I rest my case.
My Thoughts.
Ala Onyeka Wilcox
