Comments on: Four Reasons Why We Procrastinate

By: amar

amar — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:47:14 +0000

its a good article,it impressed me a lot

By: kidpieces

kidpieces — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:42:57 +0000

Great post! I’ll print this up and put on my studying wall LOL!

By: Ann at One Bag Nation

Ann at One Bag Nation — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:39:44 +0000

I just wrote a post about procrastination today, a terrible habit that has plagued me for as long as I can remember.

What I’m learning is that the “putting off” of whatever is unpleasant, boring, tedious, etc. gives sweet – but brief – relief, and the anxiety and guilt of the “undone” come back with a vengeance.

I really enjoyed The NOW Habit by Neil Fiore; it has helped me make some progress.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:58:02 +0000

Do you think ‘a fear of success’ could also be up there…?

By: mighty morgan

mighty morgan — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:56:14 +0000

Procrastination happens to be the biggest defect within my character that I deal with on a daily basis. I have found that it goes much deeper then fear of failure, human nature or feeling overwhelmed…for me it goes much further back to a place in time where I developed the idea that I did not want to be noticed or recognized at any costs….I wanted no recognition good or bad because I felt unworthy of being noticed. This idea has warped itself through the years, causing much self inflicted pain. My solution..stay focused, focused, focused and then get even more focused, distractions come from many different places and often beg me to live out the old ideas and beliefs that anything I do is not worthy of recognition…it’s a process of understanding where these traits spring from and the applying the best methods to overcome them

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:24:20 +0000

Feeling Overwhelmed – i can absolutely relate to this. I had a phase in my life where I had big goals (still have) but all was just too much. It is hard to set the focus on which goals to concentrate because you want them all.

Once I realised this I started breaking the goals down still leaving big goals out there, but have them in chewable junks. Get those small succeesses happening and you reach the big ones by default.

By: Shanel Yang

Shanel Yang — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:28:28 +0000

Great post! Trey and Rick – I feel for you. Your comments remind me a lot of the terrible feelings I used to have before I finally overcame my own debilitating procrastination issues that began when I was in junior high school and lasted all the way through collegeâ€”until I absolutely had to put a stop to it to survive law school. I wrote about how I did it in my article “Get a Handle on Procrastination” and my summary of the great self help book “Eat That Frog!” on my blog ShanelYang.com – Easy Steps to Success. The trick is to understand why you procrastinate, to calm your fears by addressing them head on, execute a plan for completion, then get on with it almost before the fears have a chance to overwhelm you. The cool thing is that, once you start doing this, the amazing sense of relief and accomplishment is so addictively habit-forming that you’ll actually want to jump right to the next big task!

By: Flora Morris Brown, Ph.D.

Flora Morris Brown, Ph.D. — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:40:32 +0000

I found myself engaging in deep procrastination in starting a new endeavor once. I realized after a while that it was because my heart wasn’t in it. Once I gave myself permission to drop that endeavor and find one I could enjoy, I proceeded with great enthusiasm and gratification.

Sometimes procrastination indicates you’re headed in the wrong direction.

By: Matt @ Face Your Fork

Matt @ Face Your Fork — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:48:07 +0000

I found one of the reasons I procrastinate (in fact, the top reason I procrastinate!) is not having a good enough reason to do a task. If I think something is outright inane to do, why would I want to waste my time on it?

I have pretty good self-discipline to do what I need to get done every day, but I notice when I start putting off specific tasks, it’s my mind’s way of telling me “this might not be exactly what you need to be doing, why not take another look at it?”

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:47:19 +0000

I find the fear of failure a strong harbinger of doom. Especially when a new project is being undertaken. It doesn’t matter how much planning goes into the venture. A fear of failure keeps the project on the ground. It can be a very hard obstacle to overcome.