If you can't start or complete a business without any reason, then you are "infected" with procrastination. Getting to know it better will help you get rid of procrastination.
Every fifth person on earth is a procrastinator
Scientists tried to find out which country has the most people who are prone to chronic procrastination. They conducted research in different countries: in the USA, Poland, Venezuela, Turkey, Great Britain, Germany, Saudi Arabia and Japan. They found 20% of procrastinators everywhere. This is about every fifth person.
Procrastination is chronic
Determining whether you are chronically or temporarily procrastinated is fairly straightforward. If you put off everything without exception for later: both work tasks and personal affairs, then you have chronic procrastination. Temporary procrastination can be associated with normal fatigue.
Deadline does not improve efficiency
Many people believe that procrastination, on the contrary, helps to be effective, so they specifically wait until the last moment. Basically, they stimulate themselves with acute stress, which unfortunately does not increase performance. Research has shown that the quality of task performance suffers greatly.
Reasons for procrastination - fear of failure and success
Usually our actions inhibit thoughts of defeat. We are afraid of failing. But procrastination also arises from the fear of success. We begin to think that we cannot repeat it over and over again. We may also feel that success will lead to more responsibility and even more tasks.
Procrastination protects against criticism
If you do nothing, then there will be nothing to criticize. Our greatest fear is when our abilities and competencies are criticized. Better to be condemned for the fact that we do not have the skills of time management and do not know how to dispose of resources.
Procrastination won't help you make informed decisions
Procrastination is sometimes seen as a thorough preparation for action. In fact, procrastination does not help decision making or improve quality.
To defeat procrastination, you need to learn to control thoughts and emotions
Many people think procrastination can be beaten with time management. For this, of course, you need to take special courses. But that doesn't help. It is more important to learn how to control thoughts and emotions.
The flip side of procrastination is preexisting
There is no way the procrastinator can start or finish a business. On the other hand, the terminator is doing everything right now. But stopping is no better than procrastination, because if obstacles arise and the task is not immediately completed, the same guilt and anxiety arises.
