Secrets of Successful People!

Every once in a whilea person may find himself procrastinating for one reason or another. He can be playing video games,rearranging furniture in the living room and doing other mundane things to pass time. All the while he is putting off doing what he needs to do. At one point he realizes that he has put in so much time and effort into procrastinating that he ends up with bigger problems and lesser time to fix them.Procrastinating, based on the above, is the act of putting off doing something that needs to be done. It could be something as big as a life-altering decision that you don't know the answer to or a simple task that is so boring that you don't feel like doing it. When something needs to be done that has a big impact in your life, i.e. the life-altering decision, it can have immediate and devastating consequences. Whenit is just you putting off a thing that you feel too lazy to do the effects might not be as immediate or as obvious. But over time it can become a bad habit that can greatly affect your future in a negative way.A person procrastinates two ways. The first one is when a person does things that are not at all productive. This could be something like binge watching your favorite TV show when you should be studying for a test or going to a party instead of working on your project. These actions can take up time that you should have spent doing what needs to be done. This type of procrastination make you feel content for a moment. Afterward, you feel panicked when you find out you don't have enough time to complete your task.The other way that people procrastinate is by doing something productive but not related to thething that they need to do. This could mean something like cleaning the room instead of working on your take home task from work or organizing your closet instead of doing your thesis. Both actions are productive in a way, but itdoesn't actually contribute to the task that you need to complete.Reason Why People Procrastinate:The reason why people procrastinate varies from one person to another. One of the most common reason and probably the most detrimental amongthem is fear. A person sometimes procrastinates because he is driven by fear; fear of losing, fear of failing, fear of the unknown and fear of uncertainty. His fear is making him not want to tryto do something about the things that he needs to do today and put off doing it for tomorrow. He becomes afraid of the outcome of his actions so he prefers to delay acting on it. His fear is also driving him away from doing something productive and something that can potentially be successful so he does other things that have lesser impact on his life.Another reason why people procrastinate is because they think that the thing that they need to do is not important therefore does not require immediate action. It could be something that you feel doesn't have enough impact on your life so you put off doing it and thinking that won't affect you as much. Here's an example:Imagine you are at work and your boss gives you a task that is due next month. You read through the task and find that it doesn't contribute much to completing your current task. You also conclude that it is a task that is boring and that it is something that you can do fairly easily. Because of this, you think that you have plenty of time to do it so you put it off for the next day. Your next day turns into next week and before you know it, the deadline is 1 day away. You realize that the reason your boss gave it one month in advance is because it requires that much time to do it properly. You find yourself cramming, putting in overtime and submitting something that is not equal to your usual quality of work. Your boss is disappointed and is now more hesitant to give you special tasks like this. Little did you know, this was your boss' way of testing you if you can handle other responsibilities outside of your current work.The example above shows how even something that you feel has little consequence can actually be a big deal. Little things that you don't do well can result to bigger things like loss of opportunities and the like. People also procrastinate because they flat out just don't want to do the task. They could see the task as something that is unnecessary, inconvenient or something that is out of their work description. This usually happens when the person feels that there is nothing he can gain by doing this task. The task could also be a chore or an activity that the person doesn't want to participate in. So instead of doing that task, the person would do other things just to get out of doing what is required of him.A person will find any good reason to procrastinate just to get out of doing something that he wants to put off doing. He will find ways to occupy himself and waste precious time that could be used instead to focus on doing the task that needs to be completed. A person who intentionally wants to procrastinate will find things around him that needs to be fixed, tinkered, handled and done because these are deemed more important than the task at hand. When this happens there can be unknown consequences that could affect the future.http://www.thomashowlandinfocoach.com/MembershipIncomeArticle Source:http://EzineArticles.com/expert/Thomas_Howland/2319329