The Danger of Procrastination                  

Letting yourself put things off can have greater implications than we may realize. To start, it fosters distress. According to The New Yorker, 65% of students faced with writing a term paper said they would like to avoid procrastinating because they knew the delay would make them unhappy.
In addition to the stress and guilt that comes with procrastination, consider these other very real consequences of putting off what you need to do: Gaining a bad reputation with coworkers, friends, and family. Losing your ambition to succeed. Not accomplishing your dreams. Threatening your well-being if it is a health-related task.

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Procrastination is time consuming

Over learning, in relationship to procrastination, is the last minute disadvantage that you put yourself in and thus force your brain to indulge information heavily.

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miss out opportunities:

A procrastinator would end up wasting time and missing out on these opportunities.

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lead to job termination:

Meeting deadlines or achieving the set targets is crucial at work. Missing on that would get you to lose your job

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                           Get Rid of Procrastination                           

According to Napoleon Hill, procrastination is “the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” Trust me, if you procrastinate now you will panic A LOT later. As Mason Cooley says, “Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.” Ladies, time management is equivalent to life management so treat your time carefully and avoid procrastination. Here are 5 negative effects of procrastination to remind you how precious your time is.

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                3 Tips for Overcoming Procrastination               

Procrastination has been extensively studied by psychologists, probably because they have some world-class procrastinators close at hand: students. Students don’t have a monopoly on wasting time, though, almost everyone procrastinates now and then. The difference is that people learn effective strategies for dealing with it and get some stuff done; others never do. Here are ten tips for overcoming procrastination, based on science:

Tab 01 Neutralize destructive thinking.

When you think of this task, what negative thought pops into your head? Find an antidote to that thought in the form of a truth that contradicts it. For example, if you think “I’ll never be able to learn all this,” you might say to yourself, “If others can learn this, so can I.”

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Tip 02 Break it down.

You’ve envisioned the task, dealt with what’s been holding you back, and fixed your destructive thinking. Now, break the big job down into a series of little doable steps so you can stay focused on just handling the next little task. Plot out each part of the project, including details such as whom you will talk with and what about, where and when you’ll be working, and how long you expect each step to take.

Tip 03 Praise each little step.

Don’t wait until the end of the task to congratulate yourself. Give yourself praise for each small victory, rewarding yourself for each little step completed. Doing this is very motivating, and it also prevents fear of failure from creeping in to the process and sabotaging your efforts.

                Procrastination and Time Management             

Properly managing one's time is critical in overcoming the problem of procrastination. Learning how to manage time is important because of the potentially negatively affect that procrastination can have on various areas of one's life. It is important to understand, however, that procrastination is not a sign of laziness and that it can be caused by several things, in addition to distraction. Regardless of why a person may procrastinate, he or she can take steps to overcome it.