Procrastination

Procrastination can be destructive, it can make you very unproductive, it can cause stress, and it often makes you feel bad for the things you should have done but didn’t do because you thought you had time to do it another day or time. People around you may deem you uncooperative and unproductive to the group’s progress leading to a poor mark or they may ask you to leave the group, this will leave you having to carry the work load alone. This now affects your social relations as well as the work you should have gotten done. This often leads to people not wanting to be in groups or not liking you because they know they cannot depend on the lack of work you bring to the table. A procrastinator’s worst enemy is themselves; they use excuses more often and put themselves under more stress than they need to.

Types of Procrastination:
• The Relaxed Type: The relaxed procrastinator is lazy when it comes to doing the work that needs to be completed. These people think that the work that has been assigned is easy enough to be completed in a short time frame. These people are constantly in denial that when they are not doing work that their activities are not affecting the work that they are not getting done.
• The Intelligent Procrastinator Type: The intelligent procrastinator always feels that the work that has been assigned to them is easy enough to understand and shouldn’t need to be completed as soon as they receive it, this makes them put it to the side because to them it’s a piece of cake! Once it comes time to do it they take shortcuts and they forget about the main idea, the big picture of the assignment.
• The Decisional Procrastinator Type: This type of procrastinator is good at recognizing the work that needs to be done, what holds them back is making decisions about the work at hand. They have troubles in making decisions and this causes them to put the work off until the last minute. The problem with the decisional procrastinator is once they have put the work load off they start to feel the pressure and stress of the work not becoming completed because they have to rethink things constantly, they are almost like perfectionists.
• The Escapist Procrastinator: The escapist procrastinator is what you would call a day dreamer, they tend to get caught up thinking about other things other than the work at hand, this gets them into hot water because once they clue into what they need to be doing they become rushed and the work becomes half done or they are missing crucial details (the big picture of the idea).
• The Afraid Type of Procrastinator: This type of procrastination is worse in stressful situations because they are unsure about their ability to complete the work. They feel that they work better if they relax first because they put themselves under a lot of stress. The time that spend unwinding could be put towards completing a task that was given to them, when they factor in the time issues they become more stressed and tired over the fact that the work hasn’t gotten done and they are not satisfied.