5 Negative Effects of Procrastination

Well, some people said that every body has her/his own style to do something. It based on their personality and characteristics. However, out of this reasons, their habit to do something is also possible to be characteristic's trademark of that people. While some people do their job directly, the other people choose to do procrastination. Actually procrastination which means not doing something that we are supposed to do it, is a very bad habit that may cause many disadvantages in our life. So,be careful if you have a symptom correlated to this, because sometime, in our daily life, we become unaware of this problem. 

First of all, here are some symptoms which are associated with the procrastination:

1. Feeling delight in extending time

Sometimes we think that it is okay to relax working or doing our job. This is because of we feel that we can do the job easily ontime. Whereas, we do not understand what will be happened in the next hours, and in the future. However, having too much relaxation will make our jobs not finished on the right time and schedule. 

2. Underestimate the job

We underestimate something that becomes our responsible to do, then we decide to postpone this job. We believe that doing the job in the near deadline will produce the maximum results, but its totally wrong. Because to create something maximally, of course we need an extra time and extra carefulness. 

3. Laziness

When we are faced on to the something important to do and the deadline, we feel lazy to do that directly. We feel that the job which is supposed to do is not too important to do directly and we think that we still have a lot of time to do it.

4. Too Perfectionist

For example, as a student, he is asked to do the final project or thesis. He just writes the same part over and over again everyday because he thinks that it has to be done perfectly. It is not a problem if we try to do our best to reach the higher score or to make something perfect. However becoming too perfectionist is not a very good choice when we faced on to the deadline, because as a human being, we are not perfect too, and we become unconscious of the great ambition to make the perfect task, on the other side we unaware that the deadline is further draw near.

5. Avoiding difficulty

Some of us choose to avoid the difficulties than to confront them. This choice is not because of no reason. The difficulty is something that make people unhappy or unpleasant. Someone always does the procrastination is he or she who avoids to confront the problem or difficulties. Avoiding a difficulties creates a condition where we cannot accept the oportunities to be a better person, to have a strong mentality, because difficulties can help us to understand the tactics which help solving problems which are happening on the next time. 

Secondly, Procrastination can cause many problems both internally (Psychologically), and externally to the someone who does that . There are five negative sides of procrastination, such as:

1. Increasing stress levels

Delaying to do something important can increase the amount of stress. If we know that the deadline is in presence, we will feel a perplexity, confusing experience to reach the target or to finish that job in appropriate level. 

2. Feeling guilty and regret

After we cannot finish our task or job in the appropriate time, absolutely, the regretful and guilty feeling will frighten up ourself. Thus, we cannot enjoy the next time and not comfortable to be around our friend or our teacher.

3. Afraid of failure and anxiety

This feeling will raise gradually when we continue to do procrastination. Because the longer we lazy and procrastinate something, the more increase of the perplexity in our mind which creates the felling of afraid and worried of failure.

4. Unfinished task

Postponed doing job will make something important unfinished ontime. We cannot do the other task before the first task is not finish yet. If we keep collecting the unfinished job. The other people around us will stigmatize us as a lazy person who does not have good skills.

5. Complainings

The unfinished task or job is even possible causing some complaining from our tutor who teaches and gives us that task to be done. It is undeniable, because they hope that we can do that ontime. This complainings can created the feeling of pressures, including number 2 and 3.

From the above mentioned points, it can be concluded that procrastination is a bad habit that has to be avoided because creates some disadvantages for the person who do this in daily. Let us start to not to postpone our job and do it as soon as possible.