September 6 – Anti-Procrastination Day Today we celebrate Anti-Procrastination Day. The term procrastination means a tendency to put everything off until later. Who doesn’t know this? But it’s worth remembering that procrastination is not synonymous with laziness! For some time now, it has been considered a mental disorder. In short, it involves putting off an important activity until later, or rather replacing it with unimportant, third-rate matters at the moment. For example, we have an essay to write, but instead we read the newspaper or clean the apartment. For others, taking care of order may be the very activity we put off until later. This phenomenon is often called the student syndrome, because it most affects those who study for exams at the last minute and young people in general. For many people, the reason for procrastination is the reluctance to do something, and studying for an exam fits in perfectly here. Procrastinators have problems with concentration, time management, work organization, setting appropriate priorities for tasks or assertiveness. It’s not that they don’t want to do something – most often quite the opposite, they ambitiously undertake too many tasks. Only when they fear serious consequences related to failure to do something do they get down to work. Here you can see the difference between a lazy person and a procrastinator – when the former has no remorse, the latter torments themselves with not fulfilling their duties. On Anti-Procrastination Day, it’s worth getting busy and doing what we have to do. First, walk the dog, make some tea, check your email. Then turn off everything that distracts us – Facebook, TV, silence your phone. You can even study outside the home if you have a problem with so-called “time wasters”. It’s good to make a plan in advance and stick to it consistently – for example, at 5 p.m. I start studying, work for two hours. Only then is it time to rest. Even if we really don’t feel like taking an English course today, it’s worth learning at least a dozen words. In this way, we will calm our conscience, get into the habit of systematic work and learn something. It is especially sensible to stick to the principle of working systematically. Not necessarily for long hours, just regularly. Then even the largest project (e.g. writing a master’s thesis) goes smoothly and instead of tiring, it delights with visible effects. If we have the whole day at our disposal, it is better to work on these more complicated tasks from the morning. Even people who do not have problems with procrastination can join in the celebrations. All you need to do is mobilize a friend who is currently turning on the next episode of a TV series instead of preparing an important project. And it is better not to put it off until later!Text: Kalbi.com, photo: Pixabay Skip to content
