Procrastination: Procrastinators Why Delaying?

Procrastination: Why have I become a procrastinator?

Procrastination is not laziness. Procrastination is something way different. It is connected to laziness, but they are no similar that much. This is one of the worst habits that a child or an adult may get. If you notice that our child is procrastinating, then you should take all necessary steps to treat this and make it important not to waste any time.

The issue is not necessarily related to kids, but may also affect adults. Have you ever felt like you take too long to wash the dishes or wash your clothes? You keep delaying things to coming dates because at the moment you are busy doing ‘nothing’ mostly. When you put off an affair to another time, then you are literally procrastinating. Some people may do it too much and may procrastinate in everything every time, while others may do it rarely. Yet, everyone does it time to time.

However, in case you find it too hard and so you struggle a lot to achieve something, then it might surpass procrastination to another problem; more serious problem. You only have to identify the reasons behind doing so. That is how you can benefit from your time (through eliminating those reasons).

In this article we are going to cite some of the most common causes that may lead you to waste time and procrastinate. Most of them may be relevant to health disorders, which is the reason why you may need some medical visits.

1. Is it related to ADHD or ADD?

People (children more particularly) who suffer ADHD or ADD may have different behaviors. The disorder affects behaviors in the first place when it affects someone. When someone develops this disorder, they will find it hard to take certain decisions, to finish their duties and tasks, or anything else similar.

Another kind of ADHD impact is that those people do get distracted by something else while they do (or tend to do) something specific. In another shape of ADHD connection to procrastination; the person may feel tired quickly and gives up on finishing his task. ADHD may affect behaviors in different ways such as dreaming, forgetting, paying no attention to what they are doing, careless about their risks, losing their thoughts or things, and other signs.

2. Maybe associated with OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)?

This health disorder will not let you finish a task. It will keep making your brain believe that what you are doing is not being done correctly or right. You will keep looking around, trying over and over, in order to make it more and more appropriate; perfect instead. Your brain will keep bringing you some things that you do not need or want. The more you try to stop what you are thinking about, the more you think about it. You take too long thinking and over-thinking about such things during your day.

3. Can feeling depressed lead to procrastination?

Depression is one of the most significant feelings or emotional disorders that make your brain chemicals change. When you feel depressed, the changes in your brain can even affect your energy level, so you basically feel too tired to do something or to finish a task before the deadline. It may even affect things you used to love and you stop doing it.

Depression usually leads you to think negatively about yourself, and make you feel helpless and hopeless, so that you do not feel like to carry on doing your job or feel like to start what you have to do.

Depression will bring you a feeling of sadness that you can never get rid of it. Besides, you may start losing your appetite and eventually your weight. As we said, thinking negatively may occupy you and prevent you from doing or focusing on doing your tasks, and it may even lead you to think of tragic things such as self-killing and committing suicide.

4. Stress is one feeling that may cause you procrastinate!

They say; do what you love to love what you do. Feeling relaxed and feeling in love with what you are doing is the most important thing you should take into consideration before starting a job or an affair. Once you put off or delay that thing, which you do not like, your mood may improve a little, but only for a short term.

However, thinking that you still have to do it, will make you even more stressed and tensed about it. Some people may even get angry or blame themselves when they put off those things and think of it to realize that it is still waiting for them in the future. When your mood is tensed, you may have other symptoms and signs that will help you diagnose it; to know that it is what causes you procrastinate. Signs are like having problems in sleeping, no ability to focus or concentrate, having frequent headache, and pains in ribs and muscles.

5. Even feeling tired may be related to procrastination as well!

There are many factors and triggers that affect your daily performance. Some might be related to having sufficient sleep, others to a good diet, and so on. That is why you might find it that your das differ, and if today you did your job easily and perfectly, tomorrow you might do it hardly and not that perfect. Sleep is the most significant factor that we should pay attention to in order to avoid any feeling of tiredness or fatigue, which prevents us from having a good day.

Having slept less than six hours or more than twelve hours of sleep will not let you have a good day, and so on, you will not do good in your job. Your brain can be very easily distracted when you feel tired. Some signs that mean you should reconsider your sleepiness routine are such as falling asleep suddenly or feeling so while watching a movie or reading something, you feel like to sleep longer in weekend, you find it hard to wake up in morning, and feeling so irritated.

6. How about anxiety? Can it also cause procrastination?

We have mentioned some of the most affective emotions that can lead you to procrastinate. Anxiety is no difference; it might also cause you the same condition. When you are anxious, you are more likely to accept negative emotions than positive ones. Anxiety will cause you to expect bad consequences, even that there is no chance for such things. Anxious people usually cannot focus on daily tasks, because they are too busy worrying about things in life such as family, job, relationship, and other stuff. It might be connected to several previous emotions and health conditions as well.