Are you late?

Do you sometimes feel that you are very late when it comes to fulfilling your dreams or reaching your goals? Do you find everyone else around you completing similar tasks to the ones you should be doing before you even start on them?? Do you always delay the tasks you have to do until the last minute?

If your answers were yes then you are a definitely a procrastinator. Procrastination won’t only make you feel guilty, lower your self esteem but it will halt the progress of your life completely until you find that everyone around you reached what they want while you are still in your place.

Dealing with procrastination

Dealing with procrastination requires a deep understanding of its underlying causes. Excuses like "I am not in the mood to start" or "I will begin tomorrow" are not by any means the cause of procrastination but they are just decoys that the person uses in order to make himself feel better when he doesn’t do what he has to do. In the following lines I will try to make the root causes of procrastination more clear so that you can deal with them.

• Perceived difficulty: Procrastinators and non procrastinators perceive the undone tasks as difficult, boring or stressful but the only difference between both is that non procrastinators start immediately then discover that the fears they had were unreal while procrastinators keep visualizing the difficulty of the task without daring to approach it.
• The sense of security : Procrastinators tend to mistakenly think that they are secure and that they will be able to do the task on time, thus they have a false perceived of security. While a few of them manage to complete the task in the last few minutes most of them fail to do so and only end up feeling guilty.
• Waiting for ever: Procrastinators think that non procrastinators start working when they feel like it and so they wait for the right mood before starting, but unfortunately this right mood never comes. One of the big differences between non procrastinators and procrastinators is that the first group start working even if they were feeling horrible while the other group keep waiting forever for their moods to change, and what happens is that their moods never change.
• Fear of failure or avoiding the task: Underlying procrastination might lie fear of failure. Procrastinators might not start a task because they fear that they won’t be able to do It successfully, that others will know that they can’t complete it or that their sense of self worth might decrease when they fail to it.

How to overcome procrastination

In order to overcome procrastination you must understand that it’s a severe personal disorder and not a time wasting habit. Procrastination might lead to severe depression and disappointment and could even lead to suicide. After all seeing yourself at the age of 60 without achieving anything in life could really be painful, even though some people can still start at that age, the most suffer from severe depression when they find that their lives were meaningless.

Overcoming procrastination can only be done by doing the following:

Understanding that the good mood you are waiting for will never come
Understanding that the fears you have will grow as you wait more
Knowing that depression will definitely reach you if you didn’t stop procrastinating
Knowing that non procrastinators work even if they aren’t in the mood

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