why procrastination?
Imagine that You are in a warm and soft bed and you sleep late at night. It’s time to wake up (you have to be in the office at 8 o’clock and of course you know it takes a quarter of an hour!):
At 7 o’clock, your bell rings and you wake up. But you turn it off again and you sleep another quarter and you are lazy, it is 7.15 and you hang up again to sleep another quarter. Do this process again until 7.45 am! Although it is still very difficult to wake up, you finally wake up at 7.45 am and get to your office quickly, at the top of the clock.
Have you ever experienced this or any other similar situation? Why are you procrastinating? Why do students, even though they decide to study every day in the first semester, suddenly find themselves in a situation where they are on exam night and have just started reading? In this article, we will examine the psychological cause of this common problem and its solution.
The main causes of Procrastination
At the subconscious level, you find the task difficult and impossible🤯
When you find it impossible to do it at the subconscious level, your subconscious mind constantly procrastinates. In this case, doing exercises such as mental imagery regularly and correctly can increase your belief that it can be done.
High self-confidence😎
Too high self-confidence is not good either! Some other procrastinators always feel artificial security in their minds. By being confident, they can finally do it, and they are fast, and that calms them down. In this case, it is not bad to lower your self-confidence a little and always consider the possibility of failure.
Waiting until you feel like doing it and be in the mood🥱
This is another reason for procrastination. People who do not consider small steps important and wait for everything to get better and then start, usually procrastinate forever.
Intense fear of failure😰
When people are afraid of failing, they will procrastinate. They may also feel that the work may not have been done properly or that their credibility may be questioned. That’s why they do not go for it.
How to deal with procrastination?
To solve the problem of procrastination, pay attention to the following:
- Deeply understand that THERE WOULD BE no TIME when you are completely happy and everything is ready to start what you want to do. Start with small steps. Small steps are very important.
- Realizing that the fears you have now that prevent you from moving towards your goal will get bigger as time goes on! Rest assured that by continuing the process of procrastination, sooner or later, depression will overwhelm you.
- Understanding deeply, successful people take the first steps, even when they do not feel like working.
The importance of Certainty in procrastination
Lack of certainty is the most important factor that causes you not to start and procrastinate. When you are not sure whether you will succeed if you start something, your subconscious mind will try to prevent you and your character from getting hurt by delaying the start. If you are sure that you are doing something and by doing it, you will be 100% successful and enjoy it, you will do it! Also, if you are sure that you want to do something under any circumstances, you will do it!
Conversely, if you are sure that you will be harmed by doing something, you will prevent it. Consider the example we gave at the beginning. Why at 7:45, you finally get out of bed and go to the office? Yes, because everything has become “certain” for you. When you get stuck between death or doing something, you will do it!
So I emphasize that it is not bad to look at certainty once again, as an extraordinary attribute. When you say to yourself that you want to start something, speak with one hundred percent certainty and convince your subconscious mind to act: I will start something and I will get one hundred percent results!
Think about smoking. Many people know that smoking causes cancer or is harmful, but they still smoke. The fact is that such people, although consciously aware of this harm, their subconscious mind remembers the examples of many other people who smoked but were healthy until old age (perhaps one of them being their grandfather). Therefore, on the subconscious level, they are not sure what suffering they will receive and they do not understand this suffering. Therefore, I ask you to think about the importance of certainty and will. When you really decide to do something, you do it. When you burn the return boats and there is only one way to reach the goal, you will definitely reach it.
