What is the difference between procrastination and relaxation?
What is the difference between procrastination and relaxation?
If you are tired of working hard on your tasks or goals and take rest for a while, you are relaxing. If you haven’t even started yet and still feel tired and crave to relax, you are delaying, avoiding and hiding, or in simple words procrastinating.
How do you know you are procrastinating?
SIGNS OF PROCRASTINATION
- Having uncertain goals.
- Feeling overwhelmed.
- Experiencing difficulty concentrating.
- Holding onto negative beliefs.
- Experiencing personal problems.
- Becoming or being easily bored.
- Setting unrealistic goals.
- Being afraid of failure.
What does procrastination look like?
Procrastination is the act of unnecessarily postponing decisions or actions. For example, if someone has a week to finish an assignment, but they keep postponing it until right before the deadline, despite the fact that they intended to work on it earlier, that person is procrastinating.
What is the difference between relaxation and procrastination?
Don’t confuse procrastination with relaxation either. Relaxing recharges you with energy. In stark contrast, procrastination drain it from you. The less energy you have, the more stressed or even depressed you might have become and the higher the chances of you putting off your responsibilities are.
How do you talk to yourself about procrastination?
Most people who struggle with procrastination have developed unhelpful mental habits around how they talk to themselves about procrastination. They tend to be overly judgmental and critical of themselves, saying things like “I wish I wasn’t such a procrastinator” or “Why can’t I just get it together and get things done like everyone else?!”
What are the causes of procrastination?
Based on decades of research into the true causes of procrastination, The Procrastination Equation says that there are 4 primary causes or variables when it comes to why we procrastinate: Low Self-Confidence. When we don’t have much confidence in our ability to complete a task (or to complete it well), our likelihood of procrastinating goes way up.
Is procrastination a character flaw?
Some of the most productive, accomplished people in history also struggled with procrastination. STEP 2: Procrastinate consistently. Rather than a character flaw or lack of discipline, one way to look at procrastination is a natural desire for curiosity and variety in our work.