How To Defeat Procrastination part 2

Underlying Causes Of Procrastination

Going back to the definition of procrastination that I gave in the previous post, "putting off things needing to be done in a specific period of time or avoiding things resulting to delayed accomplishments of tasks"... Now the question is what leads

procrastinators to avoid doing something they are supposed to do? The answer boils down to two things that I touched on in the last post and that is fear and desire.

Fear and desire are the 2 main factors involved in both action and inaction. Desire can be best explained as the source of motivation to move forward. Without desire, people do not have the driving force to take action. On the other hand, fear is like the darkness that prevents you from moving forward.

More often than not, if fear is more dominant than desire, procrastination occurs. But if desire is more dominant than fear, action happens.

If people suffer from fear and along with it they lack desire in doing something, the end result is that procrastination is going to happen and, time after time, will eventually take over their life – affecting everything they do throughout the day.

Lack of desire

One of the most powerful factors that cause procrastination is lack of desire. More often than not, procrastination happens to people because they lack desire in what they do. People are more likely to procrastinate if they don't love what they are doing or they are less interested in doing that particular action over something else.

One of the biggest things that I dislike is calling and emailing people, especially when it is to discuss money, so I, in the past, would wait until the last minute to do it. This led to me getting paid later than I wanted, which led to me not having enough funds to pay suppliers, etc. I didn't do this, or not do this as the case may be, out of fear, but I didn't like it, so I ended up filling my time with other things that I enjoyed doing more, such as writing blog posts.

Fear

Another factor that causes procrastination is fear. Even though you have the desire to do what you are supposed to do, if fear is stronger than that desire, it is more likely that you will procrastinate. This can be any fear. It may be a fear that has something to do with uncertainty, pain, hardship, failure, rejection, disappointment or any other similar thing or it could be due to a deep seeded phobia such as not cleaning the attic out of fear there might be spiders.

Perfectionist use procrastination as a resulting behavior because they fear doing something that will be less than perfect than what they envisioned. This, in turn, affects how they will perform in order to complete the task. Nevertheless, this leads them to procrastinate.

No matter how much you procrastinate, be aware that procrastination could turn into a big problem sooner or later and before you even realize it, it is already affecting your life negatively, whether it is your procrastination or someone else's.

So, with this, here are some main reasons why you should act immediately and defeat procrastination all at once.

Reasons Why Procrastination Must be Stopped

If you will not act now to stop procrastinating, it will lead to suffering a number of big problems not only in your work, but more importantly, in your life.

· Procrastination can lead to low quality of life.

· Procrastination can lead to trouble at work.

· Procrastination can lead to less productivity at home, work and life in general.

· Procrastination can lead to frustration and depression due to the things that you didn’t accomplished.

· Procrastination can lead to failure, especially when it comes to achieving your personal goals.

· Procrastination can lead to missed opportunities in work and in life. <---big one

· Procrastination can lead to serious disappointment once you failed to satisfy your own expectations and others’ expectations as well.

There are more, but these are the things that you are likely to experience when you don't get rid of this anchor in your life.

Although this may seem depressing, don't worry because it's absolutely possible for you to change old habits. As long as you will start now, you can stop it from affecting and controlling your life, you can overcome it.

The first thing that needs to happen is to declare that you are not going to let procrastination control you and this sets us up for the next post. See you then, and until next time, here's to your success.

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