As many people study and work in different fields of study, they become very busy and exhausted of their everyday activities. Some people only focus on studying, some people only focus on working, and there are some people who do both studying and working. As a consequence, these people will always have homework or a project that should have been done on a due date. All their grades or qualities really depend on how they manage their time to be punctual to the due date of their work. Nowadays, many of these people can’t avoid the best enemy in their homework: procrastination. By identifying what are the causes that overcome the procrastination, the procrastinators may find the solution on how they can minimize it. There are two basic factors that often cause procrastination, internal factors and external factors.
The first factor is internal factor. It means the cause of the procrastination comes from the willingness of the people themselves. They do it because they enjoy doing it. Furthermore, there may be two reasons why they enjoy it. The first reason because they think they can handle it in a short period of time since it is too easy, so they become lazy. Their perception is that the homework is less important than their video games, television or ipod. Another is due to the paradigm of working best under pressure. It indicates that people cannot think clearly and accurately if it is still long times before its due. These kinds of people are used to stimulating their minds to work faster and better under pressure, in this case, time pressure. It is better to decide which reason the procrastinators are currently in before taking a look at another factor.
The second factor of procrastination is the external factor. An external factor is the factor that comes from the environment or situation. Most of the causes can be from friends and family. Those are two most intimate relationships around people. This type of procrastination appears because the procrastinators are easy- influenced people. If they meet their friends who are on the way to the movie while they are working on a research paper, then they will postpone their work easily. As a result, the procrastination occurs and it happens again and again until the final due. From a family perspective, the majority of procrastinators confess that their parents or siblings ask them to do something like cleaning, doing house works or just relaxing with other family members, simply called as an obligation. Sometimes it makes the procrastinators frustrated but at the same time they have to respect their family. It has been clearly stated that friends and family have a big influence on the procrastinators.
Procrastination can be a serious problem if it happens many times. Besides requiring to work harder and in a rush, it also affects brain to create it as a habit. Once the habit has begun, then it will be very difficult to resist. In addition, not all of the procrastinators can finish their work completely, many of them just finish it in order to catch the due date without doing their best in accomplishing it. It can decrease productivity as human resources. And if people want to find some jobs to achieve success, they have to convince others that they are trustful, punctual, and wise.
In brief, whether procrastination comes as habit or just the situation, it is not something that people can be proud of. It is a bad thing that people must avoid as soon as possible. If the housework can be done right now, why wait until tomorrow? Use time wisely, because it is the most precious thing that cannot be repeated.
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