Procrastination

Procrastination has now a day’s became an instagram or facebook bio, which labels them as procrastinator. It seems like deriving positivity out of negativity. Procrastination in technical terms is defined as delay caused in a work due to any external or internal factors.People say that there are social, cultural, and psychological or maybe it’s a human instinct of procrastinating things.

Procrastination is similar of the fact that “what’s the use to repent now, when bird has eaten the harvest”. Procrastination can have harmful effect on individual. It can lead to low self esteem, depression and even making a person under confident. People procrastinate work over other things that might give them short term pleasure but can really have adverse effect in the long term.

Some people say that their guilty pleasure is procrastination, but do they really understand its real meaning? If people stop bogging down things then half of the problems in the life can be solved. There are many causes to this issue like people want to hide their incompetence so that it doesn’t get highlighted in the public(basically keeping your fame constant),may be a person is in a hope of getting a better prospect so that is why he/she is procrastinating the work, some critics say that perfectionism also causes procrastination. After highlighting the above causes do you really think these are really the problems?

One cannot come to conclusion, that we have a solution for this and now the problem is uprooted. According to me, it’s our inner conscience that leads to procrastination (maybe I’m judgemental but thinks that it’s a fact). We have so many books, quotations, inspirational sessions and even now a days we have workshops on how to curb procrastination. But do they really help? I think these play significant role only in smaller percentages and for complete success we need to adopt a different strategy.

I think it can be overcome through individual’s effort. One cannot force anyone to do particular task without his/her agreement. Recently I watched one of the famous web series named Kota Factory, in which some aspects of procrastination was highlighted and the reasons were different. The protagonist said that to overcome this problem a 21 day trial program can work which states that be concentrated towards your goal even if you are feeling lethargic.

As I have talked about agreement, it refers to synchronization of your thoughts with mind and heart. Mind and heart plays a significant role in convincing a person to attempt. Having said that procrastination is not major issue that cannot be tackled rather is just a term of endearment for laziness.

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