Procrastination, an excuse or unresolved trouble?

Reasons that lead someone to procrastinate may be due to underlying factors of self-regulation, and can also be viewed from a neurological perspective

Hyderabad: Procrastination, from a general lens, may seem like a deliberate resort to avoid work or leave a person to be labeled as unproductive, or in common words “lazy”. Some of the common characteristics of someone prone to procrastination are: feeling impulsive, unnecessarily delaying tasks irrespective of how complex they may be, low self-concept, decreased levels of motivation, rushing work at the end moment.

However, if a glance is taken over the mechanism of procrastination, it is not about when the work is getting done, but just focusing on the work simply getting done. This is for those who resort to rushing tasks towards the end moment, while their underlying fear factor of not completing the task may still be tailing at their ankle. This makes achieving a goal inclined towards a result-oriented process rather than a learning-oriented process. When the focus is more on simply getting a final result, with no consideration over how one can get there efficiently, it takes away the essence of the experience and knowledge gained on the way and the fact that we have come so far from where we started from.

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Reasons that lead someone to procrastinate may be due to underlying factors of self-regulation, and can also be viewed from a neurological perspective. There are some techniques to manage procrastination such as, breaking down large goals into mini ones, confronting the root cause for procrastination, inclining one’s attention to the process of getting to the goal rather than just wanting to get the work done, considering your day to day schedules and being realistic about how much can be done in one day, to list a few. Procrastination does not give somebody the license to label anybody with negative names, rather it is necessary to challenge it with compassion.

– Vibhuthi Viswanath,
The Bright Side Foundation