Procrastination is the thief of time

Putting things off. Waiting till the last minute. Telling yourself and everyone around you, "Yeah, yeah, I'm totally gonna do that... tomorrow." It doesn't matter how productive or driven you are, if you're human there are times you procrastinate and my life would be so much better if I didn’t suffer from an addiction to procrastination.

Every single time I say to myself: “I’m going to start studying a few days before the test”, but instead I end up the night before in my bed with my book underneath my pillow praying that the test is not that difficult. Am I the only one who takes a break for let’s say 5 minutes and ends up looking at the clock and conclude 3 hours have gone passed?

It’s not just studying we procrastinate on, we procrastinate on things like thinking about our future, saving money and getting fit. I actually think procrastination can become a problem because it’s about not being able to bring our self to do the things we want to do.

Procrastination is not an illness but more about the decisions you take when you decide not to do what you actually need to do, but to do it later instead. It’s like one half of your body wants to work, but the other half wants to watch another episode of pretty little liars.

Let’s be honest most of you procrastinate every now and then. But not everyone is used to procrastination, so to understand why procrastinators procrastinate so much, let’s start by understanding a non-procrastinator’s brain:

A non-procrastinator’s brain says something like: “I do things that make sense. Today is the perfect day to get some work done. ”

Pretty normal, right? Now, let’s look at a procrastinator’s brain:

“Let’s play another level of angry birds and watch some more episodes of pretty little liars, later this day I will make a new to-do list and do my homework”

What you clearly see is that a procrastinator’s brain only thinks about what’s going to happen in the present and doesn’t care about the future. He is just ignoring his lessons from the past and ends up studying the night before, just like me.

On the one hand procrastination can be a problem, but on the other hand a life without problems, making mistakes and bad planning's is just boring. Who wants to be a robot who does everything perfect? No one, right? At least I wouldn't want a world without procrastinators. I believe procrastination isn't a big problem. It's the universe's way of saying stop, slow down, you move too fast.

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