![]() Many people find it hard to feel motivated when tasks are vague such as 'get fit'. You think you are suppressing your problems, but in reality they are just getting worse. ![]() I have done this countless times, and it only leads to these feelings being transferred to every aspect of your life, from tidying your room, to really significant events such as job interviews or exams. It just gets bigger and bigger and faster and faster until it rolls you over. It can be much easier to ignore your problems, but it becomes like a snowball rolling on the snow down a hill. ![]() This 'panic' instinct directs and manipulates your life while your rational mind sits back and suppresses feelings of failure, doubt and anxiety.ĭelaying tasks and things you need to do is your brains way of pretending it doesn't exist, but facing your fears and taking responsibility is really important in overcoming these negative feelings that overpower your lack of motivation. How does this link into procrastination? Many procrastinators feel helpless in their lives, like they are on a roller-coaster that they can't control. Feeling in control of your life and your knowledge is extremely important in not being afraid to give something a try, and learning positive things from a bad outcome. Failure is terrifying to everyone, feeling prepared and confident can help crush this and overcome that fear. Sometimes the thought of doing badly or letting someone down can force us to give up or just mentally freeze. But what prevents us from having this mindset?įear of failure is a big factor. ![]() You feel like you are learning, being productive and succeeding. I will revisit deadlines later in this article.įeeling motivated and energised to complete a task is amazing. Rewards and success can just feel too distant to procrastinators, to the point where they aren't interested until the impending rush comes closer. The more it works, the more procrastinators keep doing it. That may sound like a juxtaposition, but it's very true. But the underlying problem with procrastination is that it works. So then after this insane rush and sleepless nights, this procrastinator will hand the work in and can finally relax and repeat the cycle for the next task, and the next and so on. That doesn't sound lazy to me, that sounds more like the average university student. Working for multiple hours at a time (often with no breaks), working into the early hours of the morning and only surviving off of caffeine, superglue on their eyelids, and a lot of adrenaline. When a procrastinator begins to panic, you see a whole new side to them. Lazy people don't crank up their work ethic by incredible amounts when a deadline is close, instead they are too lazy to put the effort in at all. You may be thinking: but hang on, didn't you just say that they don't do anything until the deadline is imminent? And you would be correct, but this is different to being lazy. What does this tell us about procrastinators? Well, it shows that they aren't lazy. The problem is, no matter how long the deadline is (or how little the workload), only minimal effort will be put in (if any at all) until the last week, day or even hour in some severe cases. Your average procrastinator celebrates long deadlines and little work to be completed, this is the first trap that we fall in to. Why do we procrastinate? This is a question I ask myself all the time, why can't I be organised and prepare in advance? Why am I easily led into distractions? To explore this question, we have to dive into when we procrastinate and the outcomes.ĭeadlines are abused by procrastinators. Procrastinators are your last minute 'crammers', your friend who is always very nearly too late for the train, your colleague who won't complete their tasks until they are threatened and yourself when your parents used to nag you to clean your room. Examples of procrastinating would be telling yourself 'I'll do that later.' and either never getting round to it or leaving it to the point where it is a major panic. Procrastination is the process of delaying completing a task or failing to regulate your time. As a full time student, I suffer from a very common trait called 'procrastination', and if you don't know what this is, you are about to discover a trait that could have possibly had a large impact on your life.
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