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Helpful procrastination
Procrastination is the action of delaying or postponing something.
From the outside, postponing your work can seem like a big waste of time. However, procrastination can help you do your work.
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Letting go
When you have been able to delay your work, your thoughts are empty and you are better able to work with challenging ideas. The work that follows is highly productive.
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Delaying and postponing
When you delay your work, you build up frustration as well as a craving for the task. The work that follows then comes easier to you.
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Not a big danger
Procrastination is a distraction and could be just what you need.
Your life is not over if you procrastinate. Know why you procrastinate so that you may benefit from it.
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Being human
Days cannot be flawless and perfectly productive. Life gets in the way: we waste time; we battle with the human experience.
We will struggle because we are human. Keep that in mind.
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New ideas
Ideas are all around us if we will take the time to look for them. When you delay doing the important work by doing other random things, you will get different ideas from normal conversations or videos. Procrastination will allow you to further explore ideas.
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Meaningful work
Doing creative and deep work requires you to let go. Procrastination allows one to get rid of the thoughts that are still occupying your mind. It helps you to loosen up.
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Avoid procrastination
pro-cras-ti-na-tion |prəˌkrastəˈnāSHən|
The noun means the action of delaying or postponing something.
What most people don't get is that procrastination isn’t optional—it’s something they don’t know how to not do.
To understand why procrastinators p...
The drawbacks of procrastination
While procrastination might have some advantages, it certainly has proven drawbacks. Individuals who procrastinate tend to be more stressed and, therefore, suffer from stress-related illnesses. Furthermore, students who procrastinate have lower GPAs than the ones who don't. So you would better th...
Procrastination: why we struggle to start
Procrastination is delaying an intended course of action despite expecting negative consequences for the delay.
Possible causes for procrastination:
- Task unpleasantness. Boring, frustrating and aversive tasks.
- Se...
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