STOP DOING THIS!
If you are still wondering what I am talking about, I am talking about:
PROCRASTINATION
Among us young adults, as we become teenagers in secondary school, procrastination slowly starts becoming a daily habit. So in this blog post, I will tell you what this word means, how it happens, why you do it, the bad consequences of it and how it will impact you in the future. So let’s start now!
What the heck is that long word???
Ok. So this word “procrastination” is quite long. Let me tell you the meaning of it.
procrastination /prə(ʊ)ˌkrastɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
noun
the action of delaying or postponing something. "your first tip is to avoid procrastination"
In a student’s life, procrastination may come in the form of saying you want to do your homework later because you want to play mobile games now, or saying you would only revise later because you want to watch YouTube now or maybe even telling your parents you will do your chores later as you want to post photos of your beautiful self on Instagram. This is actually quite common, not necessarily harmful but possibly harmful.
How does this often maybe in your life?
Usually the main form of procrastination comes with this very “disgusting and ugly” word, homework. Trust me, no one likes homework, including me, so as a teenage, I totally understand your point of view. However I still believe we should do our homework properly as it helps us improve. We also should hand it up on time. Imagine the teacher gives a class of 33 students each 2 papers, when the teacher collects it back, the teacher will have to mark 66 papers!
Now you should be thinking why we procrastinate...
Inability to make the CORRECT judgement or decisions- This is actually quite common among us (among us ref. do not mind ;)). There a 3 types of things you do. First is the things you should do, which is usually your homework or house chores, technically the thing you procrastinate. Second is the things you would like to do, maybe like you want to finish a puzzle at home with your parents. Last is the things you do when you are procrastinating, which may be playing games instead of doing the things you wanted to do.
Poor TIME-MANAGEMENT Skills- This is one of the most prominent "symptom" of procrastination, ignoring the value of time can be very dangerous at times which causes procrastination of work. You usually think that you have a lot of time and prefer to have fun first but you do not see the suffering after it and you continue to waste nearly every single second of your life.
Lack of SELF-DISCIPLINE- It is never easy to cultivate self-discipline, and that is also why procrastination even exists in the first place. When you lack self-discipline, you just go on with what you perceive as boring life and start doing everything that is just not really your work. There is a solution however, motivation is a spark to prevent and eventually stop the habit of procrastination
Solutions to Procrastination MOTIVATION:
There always needs to be something to motivate you to press on. For years, I have emphasised on setting goals and getting a sense of achievement that pushes me on. After experimenting with this technique, I had concluded that it is... unfortunately an ineffective solution and may even worsen the habit of procrastination. Thus, I did some research online and experimented myself and I found one of them useful as ever.
That technique is to see purpose in our own actions. When we see the reason why we have to do something, there is a sense of meaning when we are doing that specific thing. This is similar to enjoy the process instead on focusing on winning a competition. It is the concept of your personal vision and having a sense of purpose that provides you with long term motivation and achieving your goals and seeing the results also greatly help us.
So use something like a Procrastination Motivation that can be downloaded below.
Now we come to the last part,
Impacts of Procrastination in The Future
In the future, when we start working in our own respective companies, if we still continue to procrastinate, we will always be unable to meet deadlines and somehow can't seem to get anything done properly, since you always procrastinate, you will be slow in your work and if your boss is not satisfied with your progress or work, you might even be fired. Being unable to manage your time properly is already a problem but with procrastination, it had made life way harder for all of us...
That is all for today and see you in the next writings...
-The Good Writer
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