What are the causes and cures of procrastination? Procrastinating can give us temporary reliefs but they can give us a lot of troubles for tomorrow and in the future. It can ruin your career, business and relationship with other people if it becomes your habit. If you see yourself as a procrastinator, you better pay attention and do something to stop it before it can totally destroy your life as a whole. The way to overcome your procrastination is to defeat its allies who are helping it to conquer you. And to ensure that you can get rid of procrastination and its friends, you need to seek help from the “enemies of procrastination”. The following are the friends and enemies of procrastination. Study them to learn and realize.
The Friends of Procrastination
1. Hesitation – it gives you doubts and confusion.
2. Exhaustion – it makes you tired and bored.
3. Distraction – it destroys your focus.
4. Intimidation – it makes you afraid to go.
5. Deception – it teaches you to cheat yourself and make alibis.
6. Fiction – it puts you in dreams and imagination.
7. Emotion – it breaks your heart and gives you depression.
The Enemies of Procrastination
1. Education – it helps you get rid of doubts and confusion.
2. Passion – it gives you continuous energy and enthusiasm.
3. Concentration – it keeps you away from distractions.
4. Companion – it makes you more confident and courageous to go.
5. Obligation – it teaches you integrity and responsibility.
6. Actualization – it wakes you up to reality.
7. Motion – it keeps you working though your heart is aching.
Now, team up with the enemies of procrastination, and together you can overcome procrastination, as well as its friends.
Victorino Q. Abrugar is a marketing strategist and business consultant from Tacloban City, Philippines. Vic has been in the online marketing industry for more than 7 years, practicing problogging, web development, content marketing, SEO, social media marketing, and consulting.
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Thanks for the good words, but did you really read the post? 🙂
Hesitation is probably my top hindrance to stop procrastination. Sigh.
Mine, perhaps, is distraction. Facebook is one of my greatest distraction for now. 🙂
it’s my first time i’ve know these. thanks so much. nice to read this article.
Thanks. You can browse this site for more or even more amazing knowledge. 🙂 cheers.
Distraction is definitely my biggest ones. I know loads of people that would agree. Great article. The enemies are excellent. I use this program called StudyBuddy to help with the distraction one. Defo worth a look if you feel the same.
Hi Gavin. So we have the same enemies – distractions. 🙂 Just visited your site – you’ve got a cool product in there and it got great testimonials from satisfied users.
I loved this post. So much so I’m printing it out and hanging it on my desk. I’ve got to remember to avoid exhaustion and emotion! Thank you!!
Thanks Eileen. Oh are you including the photo in the printing?
Ooohh… Guilty of Procrastinating every now and then! trying to break the habit though. Thanks for this post!
Yeah same here too. That is why I come up on this article. I believe if you could get some companion, it will help us battle procrastination.
I will definitely share this to my freelancer friends, Vic! They are very self-explanatory and we are prone to procrastinate since we work at home.
Thanks Tristan. I’m glad you get all those points. You must be a genius. Cheers!
I love this! As a recovering Procrastinator this article is amazing! I am sharing on Face Book NOW!
Thanks Tara. I just visited your blog and you have really positive vibes on your writings.
simple yet striking! it is also self-explanatory, great writing!