The Power of Procrastination: How to Deal with It?

“I’ll do it tomorrow”, “How lazy!”, “I’ll tell you another day”, “When the week is over I’ll do it without fail”, “I’ll go before the holidays”, “I’ll talk to my parents”, “After vacation I get

Surely all of us have had thoughts like this arise at some point in our lives. Those actions or things that, when we could do them, we postpone them for later are called procrastinating. The procrastination It comes to inundate us in many facets of our lives and prevents us from adequate personal development. Sometimes procrastinating can even lead us to have relational problems with our family, partner, friends, neighbors, acquaintances,…

Why do we procrastinate?

The fundamental cause of the appearance of procrastination It is fundamentally the lack of will. Will is that quality that helps us face all the difficulties that life faces us. This act is related on numerous occasions as a resistance to the change that our behavior can produce in ourselves or around us. Procrastination, in some cases, only covers up our fears, our fears of facing that part of reality that we are afraid to face. On many occasions, human beings find it difficult to concentrate on their daily lives because they want to perform many tasks at the same time, and end up postponing those that cost them the most effort.

How can we stop procrastinating?

Steps to avoid procrastinating:

1. Execute your willpower: Try to order the tasks you must do to prioritize one over another, being aware of avoiding that unconscious part that always postpones a certain task in order to continue procrastinating.
2. Find your motivation: After having the will to carry out certain tasks, you must find that inner strength that helps you initiate appropriate actions.
3. Don’t feed your fears: Many times we procrastinate a specific action, especially in the field of health or social relationships, because we do not want to face the reality that is placed before our eyes. We are afraid of facing what they are going to tell us about ourselves or others and we “decide” to always postpone those tasks, often giving an image of control over the situation that we really do not have: “The fears are still there because we water them down.” , let fear starve.” There are several types of fears:
   • Fear of a health problem: In this case it may be fear for one’s own health or for the health of others, especially if it is a family member. We must prepare for any scenario that may arise. First by living and feeling the appropriate emotion and then correctly managing the response.
   • Fear of the other’s reaction: Sometimes we postpone pending conversations with other people for fear of their reactions or the consequences that may arise. It can be with friends as well as with family, partner, children. First we must correctly weigh the way to face that conversation and be prepared for it, being aware of what could happen.
   • Fear of error: Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, mistakes are an inexorable part of learning. It is said that when something is difficult for us or when we make a mistake, we are learning, because we help focus our attention on a specific objective, so that it passes through the thalamic pathway. On many occasions we are afraid of the frustrations that the error will cause us.
4. Rise from your ashes: You must learn to overcome that previous frustration and, like the Phoenix, rise from your ashes and redirect your actions towards achieving the objectives to execute your task.

During this process many emotions that we must know how to express and learn to managetaking it out of our unconscious and bringing it to our conscious part: ““What we do not name does not exist.”.