Writing Contest: My Ways Of Avoiding Procrastination By @Chiomz810y
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WHAT DESCRIBES PROCRASTINATION
Procrastination could simply be said to be an action of intensional and voluntarily delay or shifting of something aside, knowing fully well that it may result to an awful consequences for indulging in such.
Procrastination can be exhibited by any individual or every human. This is a character and its mostly common among the students and youths also, thereby causing them to feel like there's plenty of time to complete a particular task and also study .
It's a real thief of time which has eaten deep into the conscience of most young ones and youths. When procrastination is involved, achieving a set goal becomes a problem. For an instance, it becomes a big problem completing a task because of the piled up work. Speaking of which, distress could also be linked to Procrastination.
TYPES OF PROCRASTINATION
Yes! Procrastination have types and here are some of them.
1.) The Perfectionist.
2.) The Avoider.
3.) The Crisis-maker.
4.) The Dreamer.
5.) The Busy bee.
The Perfectionist: These category of people prefers to pay much attention to minor details. A perfectionist always get stressed because they are afraid to start up a task and scared about getting every details correctly. They also tend to fail at every start because fear rules them.
The Avoider: They are too scared to pick on the tasks they think they can't do it achieve. They therefore prefer refusing to do the task than watching people judge them.
The Crisis-Makers: This set of people try as much as possible to push work to aside. They go about searching deadlines and being excited that working at the last dying minute is the best, this brings about poor management of time.
The Dreamers: The Dreamers finds it so delightful to imagine and picture their plan more than taking action. They can be very creative but to finish up a task is too difficult for them.
The Busy Bee: They are termed as the fussy ones. They don't know how to choose the task that best suits them and always seems to postpone making any decision.
CAUSES OF PROCRASTINATION
Procrastination have got what causes it and here are some of them below;
• Boredom.
• Fear of failure.
• Self doubt.
• Frustration.
• Insecurity.
• Depression.
• Perfectionism.
•Fear of crisis.
• Complexity of task.
• Wanting to control everything.
EFFECTS OF PROCRASTINATION
Here are some bad effects of procrastination;
- Making of poor decision is one of the worst effect of production that can pull one's career down and otherwise.
- It gets to change one's reputation thereby when you keep postponing your work and delaying the work you should have done for your clients the. You end up loosing and tarnishing your image.
- Not being able to meet up with set goals. You might have a strong hunger to carry out a change but you just seem not to be able to take that first step forward.
- Realising how much time you have wasted for two, five or even ten years and nothing is changed, that could also be the worst thing about procrastinating.
- It affects the health, whereby you get mental health challenge like stress and anxiety, which in turn is connected to health issues.
MY WAYS OF AVOIDING PROCRASTINATION
Here are few of my ways of avoiding procrastination;
Ω I will try to patronize every of my tasks. Trying to at least make myself a list of daily, weekly and monthly to-dos and knowing their order of importance.
Ω I will try to set goals for myself, I will write down my plans to closely monitor it and know how and when to accomplish it.
Ω I will try my best to delegate my time to any given project I have at hand, it makes me feel bored but I will try to ensure I give it a little of my time.
Ω I will try to reward myself for each task I have done just to show some encouragement to myself, which will help get things accomplished the more.
CONCLUSION:::
Procrastination is one of the ranging problem we Nigeria youths and kids are facing in our world today. We all should try to recover from what procrastination has eaten deep into us.
THANK YOU DEAR FRIENDS FOR READING!!!
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This is a good idea dear but I hope you stick to your plans frequently? And am sure those plans are not just written down by you, but they are also stored in your brain for you not to forget.
Sure!! For the fact that I wrote them down also means I have them stored in my head
😂😂😂 yes dear, as long as you wrote it down from your head.
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Setting goals, time dedication are some of the best ways to avoid procrastination. Indeed you have said much about this very topic. I wish you all the best.
First I must commend you in your efforts to apply the appropriate markdowns as your work looks very very presentable.
Procrastination is indeed a real thief of time, and must be arrested and locked behind bars. That I mean must be avoided or better still behind us if possible..
Good luck..
Thank you dear
You are welcome..
Hello dear @chiomzy810 thanks for taking part in this contest, truly procrastination is one of a major drawback in life, and making a to do list is one of the ways to avoid it. Continue to be active in our community we appreciate your effort 💕
Thank you Ma'am, I appreciate