I wake up in the morning and planned on writing a blog post but I eventually did not do it by the end of the day. Why didn’t I ?

It is because I kept on postponing it every minute I tried to get started. “I still have the whole day, I would do it later”, ” I can still do it tommorow”. That is it! PROCRASTINATION.

Almost every human delay or put off tasks until the last minute. Should I say it’s human nature or some kind of spirit we all need to battle with.

Procrastination is the action of delaying or postponing something especially the things that requires immediate attention.

There’s an old saying that goes thus “Don’t put off till tommorow what you can do today”.

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

Human beings love to do things that are more easier and enjoyable. So you tend to leave those tasks you find to be unpleasant to a pleasant one.

Also the fear of failure leads to procastination. Sometimes you are afraid of making mistakes or you doubt your ability to finish up a task and you leave it for a task that you can complete.

“Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.”– Harry A. Hopf

Lack of self control is also a reason for procastination. When you set your goals, you should be able to go for it and should not let anything stop you from achieving them. With self control you motivate yourself to get things done on time.

Another reason people procstinate is when they feel the reward they will get from taking an action is far in the future. This makes some people wait till when the deadline is near before they start working on it.

Once you know you are procastinating and you want to put a stop to it. There are several things you can do.

You can start breaking those tasks you find too overwhelming into little part and do them little by little.

“If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem… break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.”– Robert Collier

Also hanging out with people who inspire you to take actions. Identify people who trigger you and before you know it you will inculcate their spirit.

And stop overcomplicating things waiting for the perfect time as there is no perfect time to it . You have to push your self do to it immediately.

I hope this post will help you to stop procastinating.

Thank you for reading.