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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Reasons For What Causes A Person To Procrastinate

By Allison Thompson

Of all the things that can prevent a person from succeeding in either work or generally in their own lives is procrastination. If a person is a procrastinator they will find that it actually prevents them from achieving certain goals or aims because obstacles are placed in their way of their own making. A person who procrastinates will find that they will choose a particular path which will end up with them not actually achieving what it is they want out of their lives.

Unfortunately although you may not realize it, but you could actually be a procrastinator yourself. In this article we provide you with some pointers which will help you to identify and hopefully understand what procrastination is and whether you actually are one yourself.

1. For the 20% of people who have identified themselves as being chronic procrastinators will know that it is a particular lifestyle and is going to intrude into all aspects of their life. For these particular people leading what would be considered a normal kind of life is very difficult.

2. For many procrastinators actually managing what time they have available to them in order to complete a certain task is not a problem. Rather they will find it more difficult to sit down and work how just how much time it is they need in order to complete the task in hand.

3. A person who procrastinates is not born with this affliction, but rather they make it of their own volition. Although they may not know it they will learn it through the life they lead as they grow up from the people surrounding them. Often a child who comes from a family with controlling parents will often be a procrastinator more than those that don't. These type of children will find it difficult to regulate themselves and find it difficult to act on any ideas or thoughts they may have to help themselves.

4. For some procrastinators they will rely far more on other substances to help them avoid the effects that their procrastination is having on their lives. For quite a few they will turn to alcohol or other substances which can help to numb or block out the effects and causes of their procrastination. They may especially rely on these things at those times in their lives when they think things are really bad even when they are not.

5. For quite a large number of people who procrastinate they will often use ways to distract themselves so that they can avoid doing those things that they don't like to do or they don't feel that they can do. Often they will do a task that they find easy to complete rather than going for the one they know they must do but which they see as far too difficult. This is because they feel that they do not have the right set of skills or abilities in order to achieve the required state of completion.

However luckily there are things a person can do in order to help change their habits in relation to them procrastinating. Certainly it may take time but through the use of the right kind of therapy including cognitive behavioral a person can slowly change the way they view the things that they do and help to stop them procrastinating as much as they do now.

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