Academic life is ripe with opportunities to procrastinate. Nothing is much more delightful for a student, who probably had fun through the semester and ended up with better grades by just pulling off an all-nighter on the last day. One always happens to have more important tasks (supposedly) to attend to then focusing on career.
Mention of the word ‘procrastination’ only incites negative reviews from everyone. There are whole support groups who all go green for eliminating procrastination. Key idea is that procrastinating doesn’t mean doing absolutely nothing.
The Question of Importance
For now, Let's switch to important tasks
But then again it stumbles onto the concept of ‘Structured Procrastination’. One of the methods of curing procrastination requires making a to-do priority list.(Well that can be done later).
Procrastinators, in order to avoid the important things, get busy with insignificant tasks. Taking your dog for a walk could be termed as an excuse to get away from all those deadlines waiting at your table. But someone very wisely did point out that time wasted enjoying is not wasted actually. One simply doesn’t turn on/off themselves like a machine while working.
The last minute scare, as psychologists put it; its pressure and anxiety are better task masters for some individuals.
An Escape Route?
Procrastination, as widely accepted, is an effective coping-strategy. Giving into your little impulses to be able to avoid the ‘to-do boulders’ and deciding to hone your sand-castle building skills instead isn’t something unproductive! It being termed an escape route isn’t fair either. Why don’t we perceive procrastination as this productive time which revitalizes us? Activities like introspection have always been advocated. Well procrastination doesn’t fall far behind.
A Red Alert for Career?
Smart procrastination isn’t the key. It is to know how procrastination-friendly you are!
Indulging in an activity for so long that you are ultimately forced to change onto the originally avoided route: Partying for so long that out of boredom studies seem a much better prospect now than before. If that’s what works best for you, you can be the ideal, successful procrastinator, as many great people were.
To put it differently, procrastination can be a method to inflame your desire to accomplish your goals by giving into self-deception.
Couldn’t be that bad,eh ?
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