Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Procrastination

Gosh, accidentally i closed what I write about procrastination this afternoon without saving. Stupid me...

So, lets start over.

I read about the word procrastination about 2 weeks ago on kaskus. And that word exactly 100% describe me. Ok, first, here's the link to kaskus hot thread about procrastination: http://www.kaskus.us/showthread.php?t=9219213

The time I read about this procrastination,i decide to write it on this blog, but the fact, i did it today,2 weeks later.

Here's the definition according to wikipedia:
In psychology, procrastination refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of low-priority, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time. Some psychologists cite such behavior as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision.[1] Other psychologists indicate that anxiety is just as likely to get people to start working early as late and the focus should be impulsiveness. That is, anxiety will cause people to delay only if they are impulsive.[2]
Schraw, Wadkins, and Olafson have proposed three criteria for a behavior to be classified as procrastination: it must be counterproductive, needless, and delaying.[3] Similarly, Steel (2007) reviews all previous attempts to define procrastination, indicating it is "to voluntarily delay an intended course of action despite expecting to be worse off for the delay."[4]
Procrastination may result in stress, a sense of guilt and crisis, severe loss of personal productivity, as well as social disapproval for not meeting responsibilities or commitments. These feelings combined may promote further procrastination. While it is regarded as normal for people to procrastinate to some degree, it becomes a problem when it impedes normal functioning. Chronic procrastination may be a sign of an underlying psychological disorder.

Now I get a little understanding why i did the same mistake over and over and live a mess life. Since nothing i can found about how to overcome the procrastination habbit in my life, at least I know the thing i have to overcome.


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