2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Procrastination is the constant postponement of important tasks, tasks, assignments, which leads to negative consequences.
There are several types of procrastination:
1. Household procrastination - putting off household chores
2. Procrastination in decision making (both significant and insignificant)
3. Neurotic procrastination - postponing vital decisions (choosing a profession, creating a family, etc.)
Procrastination has three interrelated components
Thoughts - Emotions - Behavior
Moreover, understanding how thoughts, emotions and behavior are interconnected, how they affect each other, makes it possible to correct them.
Example. One of the supporting cycles of procrastination is the fear of failure.
Uncertainty has a bad effect on any person in general; an anxious personality simply cannot stand it. With a huge variety of future events, the anxious person focuses on the negative.
Any action is accompanied by explicit or implicit feelings: "Nothing will work out for me", "Suddenly everything will go according to an unplanned scenario", "I will lose in any case", "And what if it only gets worse and I cannot cope with it" …
We constantly replay scenarios of our possible solutions.
How important, from which our life changes dramatically, for example, moving to another country for permanent residence.
So unimportant, for example: Which way I will go home today.
We constantly assess risks before making any decisions. And this is a normal function of healthy anxiety. But with high anxiety in a person, this function begins to give out purely negative predictions and, as a result, blocks any activity.
In fact, a protective mechanism such as avoidance is triggered. And as a result, the following thoughts come to us: "I'm afraid it wouldn't get worse." We are afraid to make mistakes, but what is the best way to save us from making mistakes?
That's right, do nothing. And as I wrote above, the brain simply blocks any productive activity.
In addition to fear of failure, procrastination enables a person to avoid evaluating their actions.
As a rule, thoughts arise like: “If I had more time, I would do everything much better.” Such thoughts allow you to maintain self-esteem at the proper level after refusing to act.
Fear of failure is one of the many sustaining cycles of procrastination.
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