How Procrastination affects productivity & how to overcome it?
Procrastination is an act of delaying and postponing tasks/assignments at hand despite knowing its ill effects. Apparently, it seems quite satisfactory to procrastinate however, the results thereof, are relatively atrocious.
When you procrastinate too much you waste your valuable time; you lose several life-changing opportunities; you never meet your long-term or even short-term goals; you live with low self-esteem; you make poor decisions; you destroy your reputation — and so on……. Devastating effects of procrastination are not felt much at the moment but later in life they cause great deal of inconvenience.
Remember, a moment gone never comes back. If you destroy time, time destroys you. Precious time of our life gets wasted while Procrastinating. Imagine, if after a decade or so you acknowledge of attaining zero growth in life. This will be the worst feeling you will come across being indulged into the habit of Procrastination. Then You will have nothing except regret and repentance. What else can be worse than feeling frustrated at yourself, knowing the situation could have been so different if only you had taken that first step.
While procrastinating you keep on losing various life-changing opportunities. Opportunities are not the order of the day. It is, thus, rational on part of a sane person to avail of the opportunity knocking at the door. Being indulged in putting off matters for a later time, you miss out life changing opportunities but realization thereof, is sensed after a long time. Mostly, opportunities come around seldom or once in life and second chance cannot be guaranteed. Many individuals blame their fate for their failures but they are actually losers on account of losing golden opportunities in life. Therefore, be an opportunist and grab the opportunities as soon as they present themselves.
We wish to have a convenient and luxurious life — we put in all efforts and leave no stone unturned. Therefore, we set goals which play a pivotal role in life as they guide us towards a right direction to traverse our journey of progress and growth. We all have different goals that we want to achieve. Procrastinating behavior however does not let us reach our goals. Procrastinating for a shorter period of time may pass without any trouble but procrastinating for longer can put us into an inevitable or jeopardous position. You may get fired from job on account of poor performance and continues failure of meeting deadlines.
Procrastination lowers your self-esteem which makes you feel that you won’t be able to get a task or project done the right way. In fact, it gradually strengthens the feeling of low self-esteem. This is the reason you must find any practical solution to overcome procrastination.
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