Phil Hartog Blog

By Jan Tulik

Procrastination is the biggest enemy of creativity. It is very destructive. Procrastination is a habit, which will never allow you to fulfill the purpose of your life. You’ll never reach, where you want to be. If you are a procrastinator, you have to deal with its consequences.

The consequences of procrastination are mostly devastating and often far-reaching. One of the effects of procrastination is fatigue. Out of habit, you keep postponing tasks and thus you become mentally fatigued. The reason behind getting fatigued is because of procrastination, the sense of accomplishment is not achieved, as we don’t complete the task. Thus, it lowers our self-confidence also. Our sense of well-being is also jeopardized. Fatigue is not the end; instead it is just the starting. Fatigue can lead to serious illness like depression, junk sleep or sleeplessness.

All this leads to emotional tiredness. The best way to get out of it is to “load-off” the tensions from your mind and start a new. Try to fix one matter and then switch on to the other. Don’t jump into anything. Things take time to get on the track; so don’t expect results overnight.

Another consequence of procrastination is many people cannot show their true potential, be it in their studies or work, because of procrastination. Procrastination has all kinds of negative effects linked with it. People have so much talent in them, but can’t show because procrastination has empowered them to a level so low they think all is hopeless and it is useless to try just about anything. Thus, in the end, they blame the circumstances, for things not going right.

Most important consequence of procrastination is it makes an easy task very difficult. The task keeps on getting postponed and ultimately acquires monstrous proportions, which is very difficult to handle. So, instead of avoiding the problem, we get trapped into more devastating situation.

Listen your reading this for a reason and that is because you know procrastination is a problem and you need to do something.

Congratulations you are half way home and your world did not fall apart; did it?

Once you take that first step and see that achieving the simplest of goals and not procrastinating you will immediately began to reduce stress and when you see the positive effect it will have a snow ball effect over and over until you will develop a mindset to finish the task at hand without even giving it a second thought.