Why People Procrastinate?

By Esad Salihovic

Dedicated to Your Success

The literal meaning of procrastination states that when someonetries to avoid doing a certain task that needs to be accomplished byhim.

In this type of state a person pay attention or accomplishes thosetasks that are less important or less urgent.

There is no age limit for this feeling thus if someone is avoiding tocomplete the routine chores or someone is avoiding to study for hisexams then he or she is definitely procrastinating.

By Esad Salihovic

Dedicated to Your Success

In the year 1992, a study was carried out in University of Vermontabout academic procrastination.

The study suggested that 52% of the total surveyed studentsshowed that they require a restrained to high need for assistanceregarding procrastination.

Moreover, it was also estimated that 80%–95% of college studentsengage in procrastination.

While an approximate of 75%, think that they are procrastinators.

By Esad Salihovic

Dedicated to Your Success

Reasons of Procrastination

There are certain reasons due to which people usuallyprocrastinate.

Here in this following section, I am going to discuss those reasonsin detail.

By Esad Salihovic

Dedicated to Your Success

1. The task is too difficult and I don’t know how to do it

This is one of the most common reasons that people come up withwhen they do not want to perform a certain task.

When people lack skills to perform a certain task then they try toavoid that particular task.

For instance, you are not a good reader and you are assigned a taskto read a number of articles and then write a review on them.

In this situation, you are definitely going to procrastinate becauseyou lack reading skills.

You might not accept the fact that you are a poor reader becausethis way you will be declared dumb.

Thus, you are going to procrastinate the task to the last moment.

By Esad Salihovic

Dedicated to Your Success

2. Lack of interest in the task assigned

This is another major reason due to which people procrastinate.

For instance, if a girl who is least interested in sports is asked to sitfor 3 hours and watch a cricket match and report the details of thematch to the officials afterwards then she is definitely going to napduring the play.

The reason behind this attitude is that she lacks interest in sports thusshe tries to avoid it. Moreover, she would try to avoid committing to thiskind of assignments from the next time.

By Esad Salihovic

Dedicated to Your Success

3. Lack of Motivation to perform a certain task

Lack of motivation to accomplish a task is one another reason that you willhear from a lot of people who want to avoid doing the task.

There are numerous procrastinators who believe that something is wrongwith them thus they do not feel motivated to perform that particular task.

This is simply not a viable answer to the problem. How many of you will feelmotivated to stand in a queue to pay your bills or get your car tank full?

Although these tasks are boring and one lacks interest but it is a fact thatwe can’t avoid them. In this kind of situation, the first step matters a lot.

When you start off the motivational factor comes along all by itself.

Another useful strategy that you could adopt is to make an attitude checkthat will ensure that your attitude is the main hurdle in accomplishing thetask.

By Esad Salihovic

Dedicated to Your Success

4. Fear of failure

When you lack the ability to do something in an exceptional way then you willhave the fear of failure which is going to make you a procrastinator.

They think in a negative way. For instance, they think that if they try hard andfail to accomplish the task then they will be called failures.

Thus, it is better not to do it.

By Esad Salihovic

Dedicated to Your Success

5. Fear of success

Only those who have been successful are aware of this particular fear. Theyknow that they have done well and the hopes are high.

They fear that they won’t be able to fulfil the expectations thus they try toavoid doing that particular task.

Succeeding might abode you in the limelight when you desire to remain in thebackground.

By Esad Salihovic

Dedicated to Your Success

I also have to tell you that all that learning is a good thing, but the real secretto success in the business world is in the “taking action”.

If you never apply what you learn, you can never make a success. It’s that simple.To avoid the procrastination, I just want to make clear that combination ofunderstanding and consistent action is critical to begin any business and ofcourse an online business from scratch and succeed.

By Esad Salihovic

Dedicated to Your Success

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By Esad Salihovic

Dedicated to Your Success