We all procrastinate in one way or the other

Procrastination is the act of putting off work for no particular reason. Some guides and experts say that you're procrastinating when you're not doing a task that needs to be accomplished by a certain deadline.

That's a false definition. It implies that we're not procrastinating as long as we get the work done. If that's true, most people don't procrastinate, which is of course not true.

Infact a recent research study I made showed that 88% of all people admit to procrastination at least I hour a day. That's more accurate. Why???

Because we all delay or postpone a task for no reason. Sometimes we start a task or project but we end up delaying the work. We don't get it done.

In the workplace, we procrastinate in the same way. How often have you delayed work on a project until the last minute? Again this pattern is not only limited to education and work. In our personal lives, we do same everytime.

When you delay a work for a good reason, you're not procrastinating. What's the good reason? When your work improves daily with the delay. However, most of our works does not get better by delaying it. It would probably be worse because of entropy.

Some people say that they love deadlines and claims that's what fuels them to do good work. But it's not a sustainable way of living and working. When you're closer to your deadline, and you haven't done anything, you experience more stress. While stress may improve your concentration, it also had negative effects on your long term well-being. Long term chronic stress, can lead to depression, anxiety, heart disease, high blood pressure, abnormal heart rhythms, heart attacks, obesity, eating disorders and other health problems.

Core causes of procrastination

• No intrinsic reasons

• Fear

• Lack of knowledge

Benefits of stopping procrastination

Procrastination is an inner struggle that can seriously destroy our overall well-being. There are three main benefits to beating procrastination:

• Lower anxiety: The more we procrastinate, the longer we wait to get started with important things, the more anxiety and stress we have

• Higher self-discipline: Procrastination is not only a time management problem, one of the biggest reasons we procrastinate is low self-discipline. The main benefit of beating procrastination is that you automatically increase your self-discipline.

• Better work: People who don't procrastinate accomplish better work. When you work with less stress, anxiety and high self-discipline, you give yourself the chance to do the better work.

• Let's endeavor to take heed to the above procrastination-free methods

• Procrastination is not a problem we should take slightly.