MY WAYS OF AVOIDING PROCRASTINATION - BY @SOLEXYBABA

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Hello to everyone in this wonderful community known as the STTEM4NIGERIA It is indeed a great week before us all, I welcome you to a great week and to yet another wonderful contest that has been organized by the community team.

It is quite wonderful to see that users are being kept busy through the engagement contest that has been ongoing in this community.

I will be participating in the ongoing contest that has been organized by our well reputable MOD in this community known as @goodybest, it is a great topic to talk about and she has tagged this engagement contest my ways of avoiding procrastination.

So without hesitation, I will like you all to join me on this writing quest as I begin.

Before I proceed, It is expected that we get familiar with the ambiguous word called procrastination. as though this will provided a clear path to where we are heading to.

WHAT IS PROCRASTINATION?

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Procrastination can be seen as an act of delay, not being quick to actions. it can also be seen as an act performing certain activities on a later time, not handling or taking the necessary actions that is to be executed on time.

So this is a short and also a clear meaning of procrastination, and I will further be giving an example for more assimilation and accommodation of the word procrastination.

An example of procrastination can be related to a student who is having an examination to write tomorrow and then, he decided to go and watch a football match instead of reading his book on time before the commencement of the said examination that has been scheduled for tomorrow and then he comes back home all tired and slept off.

Waking up the next day with such a hurry to glance through his note before the time of the exam and unfortunately he wrote the examination and failed. so in a nutshell such student did not fail because he didn't know the subject, but he failed because he procrastinated.

The time he was supposed to read, he did not read and it was at the eleventh hour he decided to read and so the delay cost him his examination and that was how he failed because he procrastinated.

Another typical example of procrastination, can be seen in an event whereby a person is called upon for an interview session for a job. and that person was asked to come to the interview hall not later than 8:00am, and the person for the interview then arrived at the interview hall by 9:00am and when he arrived he was not allowed to walk past the security at the gate because the time they gave him was fast gone, so technically that person has lost that interview session as well as the job due to his procrastination.

So the delay had cost him that interview session which would have gotten him a job.

I could go on and on to give several examples on this note but I believe with these few I have just explained above, we all have gotten the whole idea of the word procrastination as a delay toward achieving a particular thing.

procrastination is seen everywhere in the lives of many people including me, many people have lost the one and only opportunity they had to make it big in life but because of procrastination(delay), they lost it.

I have also seen a scenario where a man loves a woman so desperately that he could go to the moon and back for her and this woman in question knows that this man really likes her but he kept delaying, procrastinating until a day, another man came and swept her off her feet by expressing his feelings for her and then proposed to her so she accepted.

The first man became so sad and heart broken, but mind you it was never her fault for he lost her due to procrastination.

Many people have also lost loved ones when they were ill due to procrastination.

A loved one will be feeling unwell and the family will be self medicating the individual, thinking it is a minor issue but at the end of the day, the sickness grew worse and it got the the point that it can no longer be cured.

And that is how that person will die because of the family's procrastination. so there are lots of things that has happened all because of our procrastination to respond quickly to the scenario.

But then, there are ways around it. ways of avoiding procrastination which I will be talking about a few today with you all.

MY WAYS OF AVOIDING PROCRASTINATION

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With the recent happenings, I have learned a lot of teachings through my experiences and that of other people's but then I will be noting my ways of avoiding procrastination and these ways are adequate timing, avoid laxity and proper planning. so why not allow me to take it one after another.

ADEQUATE TIMING

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This is a beautiful and effective way to avoid procrastination. they say timing is everything. when timing is placed as a priority then procrastination will be seen no where around you.

When you are always on time, eventualities are avoided and we all know that it is always too late when the head has been cut off.

So to be on the safer side, whenever you are being called upon even if you were not given a particular time to come, always make it a habit to go to meetings on time as though you may not know what you are likely to miss when you go late.

They say good things comes to those who wait, but I am telling you, it is not all scenario that one is to apply this word. most times good things comes to those who are always on time. so know this and know peace.

AVOID LAXITY

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Laziness is also a key factor of procrastination. when a person is lazy, he or she tends to have a procrastinating spirit that is embedded in him or her. the idea of I will do it later is in no doubt an example of laxity.

And we all know that laxity promote procrastination, so until laziness and sluggishness is eradicated from our activities and our lives in general, the word procrastination will continue to prevail as long as that factor remains in us.

So avoid laziness in other to drive away procrastination.

Laziness gives birth to unserious personality and when one is lazy, and at same time is considered to be unserious then procrastination will be the only tune he or she will be dancing to.

That person will then be a prey to procrastination. so you can all see how the chain is drawn, for all of these ill-mannered behavior give birth to procrastination.

If only we can eradicate laziness and return back to being serious then procrastination will indeed be very far from us and everything will go well.

PROPER PLANNING

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This is the last key point which I will be talking about. proper planning is very essential in our lives as humans, we do not just jump into things we do not plan. we make plans to avoid a scattered brain, for a scattered brain always procrastinate.

When there is a proper planning of event and activities alongside an adequate timing is set without laxity, now tell me how can one fail in life with these three characteristics embedded in the life of an individual.

The reason why our schools time table is set is, so that a teacher do not delay another teacher's lesson, and also with that, a teacher is expected to come to the lecture hall as planned alongside an adequate timing and this is done in other to eradicate laziness which may likely to reflect the attitude of procrastination in the teaching activities of the teacher.

So you can see how this three points work side by side with each other and with them procrastination is avoided completely.

In a nutshell I conclude by saying, these are my ways of procrastination and if we al adhere to this points of mine, then a change from procrastination to promptness will be magnifying itself in our lives.

I will like to use this golden opportunity to invite @jenny281, @v-brainer, and @badmus-official to participate in this contest, I look forward to reading from you all.