PROCRASTINATION, KILLER OF DREAMS AND HOPES, CAUSES, EFFECTS AND HOW TO STOP.

Procrastination is simply means pushing or avoiding what should be done now to the future.
Everyone procrastinates, but most persons make procrastination a habit and habits are at times difficult to change.

Procrastination to me has no benefit rather negative effects.
This post will carefully outline the causes, effects, possible solutions procrastination and useful quotes on procrastination.

6 CASUES OF PROCRASTINATION

• Fear of the unknown: This is the major cause of procrastination. Fear of taking the required risk thinking of the possible outcome, this fear makes one procrastinate seeking for a better time to act.

• Past Experiences: Living in the past destroys today's zeal and passion, this causes procrastination.

• People's experiences: This is similar to past experiences. The failure of others tend to discourage the positive step of others, this also leads to procrastination.

• Fear of change: Most people are so dogmatic, the like doing things the old way, the flee from anything new but eventually discover it was the only way.

• Prefectionsim: A perfectionist procrastinates a lot, they say, "if you can't do it right, then don't do it at all". This causes procrastination.

• Low self esteem: Anyone who looks down on his or her self will definitely procrastinate thinking he or she isn't good enough.

7 EFFECTS OF PROCRASTINATION

• Damages Reputation: Once you keep saying you will do and never do, it will damage your reputation.

• Lost of Time: We waste lots of time to procrastination, looking back, we would have done what we are doing now 5 years ago, what happened? We procrastinated.

• Increases Stress: Stress of trying to catch up with the lost time and this causes anxiety.

• Lost of opportunities which may ruin your carrier: How many opportunities have you lost due to procrastinatng? When once one is known and labelled as a procrastinator, opportunities will elude such therefore his or her carrier may be ruined.

• It causes frustration: This may be due to anxiety.

• It causes guilt: Have you ever been blamed for a mishap due to your procrastinating character? I have, it was a terrible feeling.

• Tension: This causes many mistakes.

HOW TO STOP PROCRASTINATING

• Reflect on the stolen time: When you discover that because you procrastinated doesn't mean the task will disappear, you will stop procrastinating. Remember,
  "time is a valuable commodity, don't waste it."

• Discover why you procrastinate: Take time to search for what causes your procrastinating and fight it.

• Don't multitask: Don't be a jack of all trades, master of none. Do the things you can at a particular time.

• Identify your distractions: Identify what steals your time and run from it.

• Develop routines and discipline: We agree that the workload may be at times alarming but focus and be discipline.
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The following quotes on procrastination will help you overcome procrastination

"You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again".
_ Benjamin Franklin

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be
done day after tomorrow just as well.”
– Mark Twain

“Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who
hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“My advice is to never do tomorrow what
you can do today. Procrastination is the
thief of time.”
– Charles Dickens

“Never put off for tomorrow, what you
can do today.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“A year from now you may wish you had
started today.”
– Karen Lamb

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just
right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“How soon not now, becomes never.”
– Martin Luther

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