Why Do We Procrastinate

twenty sixth Aug 2009 | Comments Off on Why will we procrastinate? Why can we procrastinate? One of the principle challenges faced by our Career purchasers is getting through the homework. Although self reflection is hard, there’s no substitute for doing this, and a considerable portion of this should be accomplished alone. But virtually without exception, folks put the work off. Why is this? An article at Psychology Today helps clarify. When individuals procrastinate it’s often because the task they’re facing (avoiding) is troublesome, and this creates dangerous feelings like anxiety . Putting off the task at hand is an efficient means of avoiding this mood and psychologists have referred to as this “giving in to feel good” (Tice & Bratslavsky, 2000). We give in to the impulse to walk away from the task in hand so as to feel good right now, and we do feel better which reinforces our behaviour. I should level out at this stage that our clients are the brave ones. Many folks hate their profession yet do not even find the courage to handle the issue so there are levels of procrastination! Of course, the short-term achieve of procrastination has long-term costs. For a start, it’s been proven that the final-minute efforts that turn out to be necessary once we delay the duty often imply a sub-commonplace job overall (though not at all times, and this can be a classic reward to the procrastinator and really memorable). More importantly, as Tice and Bratslavsky clarify, “the final and overall degree of negative have an effect on is likely to be even higher than if the person has worked on the duty all along”. But a task like a career decision may be postponed indefinitely. We can literally waste our lives as a result of the second is never fairly right to change it. The message of Tice & Baumeister’s analysis is clear. Putting off a task to manage quick mood leads to issues later. They reveal this across numerous domains as I famous earlier, together with consuming, consuming, smoking, playing, buying and procrastination. When we give primacy to addressing our emotional misery, we usually do so at the cost of self-regulatory failure. They summarize this key concept with, “People will have interaction in behaviors which may be self-harmful (playing, excessive shopping, overeating, smoking, procrastinating) if the behaviors make them feel better in the short term. Thus, emotion regulation might have a particular place in the area of self-control, as a result of emotion regulation takes precedence over different self-management behaviors and even undermines other self-control efforts” (p. 154). The message to every of us must be clear as well. If we focus on our emotions within the short time period, we’ll undermine ourselves in the long run. In reality, we may spend a lifetime rationalizing it to ourselves: ‘I don’t feel like it’, ‘I need to feel better to be able to act’ and so forth. No you don’t. In fact, you r feelings will observe your behaviours. Progress on a task will enhance your temper. For now, the message is, don’t give in to feeling good, get going as a substitute â€" don’t delay! Career Change Tags: Career paralysis, Step 1: Understanding stuckness « How Meaning Transforms Everyth... Mike Steger and Evidence for t... »