The Procrastination Puzzle: What's Really Holding You Back from Success? ???

The Triggers That Cause Procrastination

Teddy Roosevelt spoke about how nothing is worth doing unless it involves effort, pain, and difficulty. What do you think? If you’ve experienced what we’re about to discuss, you might respond, “Hogwash!” ??

The agony of compressing a semester’s worth of studying into a single night. ??

The suffering of scrambling at the last minute to meet your work deadlines. ?

Finally, the agony of putting off doing your laundry until you have a mountain of dirty clothes. ??

Procrastinators, to whom we can, of course, assign these actions, may say this. Procrastination isn’t worthwhile, yet it involves much pain, effort, and difficulty.

If procrastination is such a thorn in the flesh, why do many people do it? You may have wondered if you know a procrastinator or can admit that you are a procrastinator.

What are the inner workings behind why people procrastinate? Psychology explains what cogs and gears are turning in the minds of procrastinators. Let’s look. ??

The Psychological Factors Behind Procrastination

Studies show that various factors cause procrastination. These factors are why procrastinators may know their behaviors yet can’t change them. What are they?

Consider these factors:

• A lack of structure. Organizing your tasks while taking your habits and behaviors into account is a skill. One a procrastinator lacks. Those who can order their past, present, and future activities can manage their time well. ??
• Anxiety and fear. The tasks we have to perform can be challenging when you can’t see the top of the mountain of clothes that need washing. Confess, and it makes you feel uneasy. ??
• Lack of motivation. Some call motivation the driving force behind accomplishing what needs doing. Motivation might come from the outside or from within. Internal motivation is a crucial psychological factor. ??
• Perfectionism. Holding up a weighty object isn’t easy. The pressure exerted by the object makes it difficult even to move. That’s the strain that perfectionism puts on individuals who suffer from it. ???♂?

We’ve discussed some of the “whys” behind procrastination. Gaining knowledge of this is a step forward in overcoming this self-defeating habit. As you do, you find that you’re happier, living a life with less effort, less pain, and less difficulty.