9 Things Procrastination would do to you

Procrastination: The primary key to failure.

Having gone through a level of education, and met a few successful people and several numbers of people who fail unfortunately. The excuse has always been the same. But among young people whom I’ve been with I realize that procrastination has always had its way.

DEFINITION: What is Procrastination?

Oxford advanced learners’ dictionary defines Procrastination as the act of someone delaying something that is meant to be done usually because he/she do not want to do it. When a person chooses to do something else at the expense of doing what was supposed to be done it is called procrastination.

CAUSES

When people procrastinate, it is often as a result of the following:

·        Laziness

·        Lack of time-value

·        Carelessness

·        Indiscipline, etc.

And these factors devalues one’s ability, it makes a once brilliant young kid engage in malpractice in an exam just because he/she procrastinated in reading for an examination. When a procrastinator discovers that the time lost cannot be retrieved again then they find an artificial means of making up for what was lost, and that is failure in the making.

Success aspirants should develop the “do it now attitude” so as to achieve designated goals. When one decides to perhaps read, write, start up a business, go to a place, change occupation, get married or do anything relevant, it is expected to be done, that is the real reason why we have more failure people working today. Many have lost their jobs, many their lives, many appointments of great importance, some business proposals, some project refusals and many other mischievous disappointment just because of one known giant called PROCRASTINATION.

9 Things procrastination would do to you.

Procrastination has resulted to several issues that the solution has been far-fetched. People are suffering as a result of procrastination either directly or indirectly, and some are:

1.     Regret

2.     Failure

3.     Loss of focus

4.     Resentment

5.     Disappointment

6.     Loss of opportunity

7.     Degradation

8.     Loss of self confidence

9.     Ill-self esteem

1.   Poverty.

THE WAY OUT OF PROCRASTINATION

1.     Totally decided mind: a mind that has not been fully made up about doing something now will certainly be diverted if something eventually comes up.

2.     Developing a value for time; people should learn how to put value on every second they spend doing something. “A well planned schedule can hardly pass a day without achieving a goal”.

3.     Personal discipline: when a person is not disciplined, everything goes and that means unorganized and screwed. When asked to do something that is necessary at a set time, one has to discipline one’s self to do it at the exact time so it becomes part of you.

4.     Start little: in case of business ideas/plans, maybe you have little money to start with and you perhaps search for bank loan or hope to get money for a large capital. Good but when you spend the money for minor expenses and it has come to very little, then you can’t even start again, and it leads you back to square one. But when you start with the little you have, you tend make more.

As a student, you have plans to read like 3 books a day, if it’s your first time, I advice you start from 1 before you go over to 2 then 3, because a saying goes “Rome was not built in a day”. Start from somewhere as a business person, clergyman, student, and musician, etc.

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Samuel C.A. James