How to overcome procrastination?

Rebeka Ratry
6 min readAug 17, 2021

Procrastination is a dream slayer, thrall maker and life taker that umbrage our mind and obscures our goals.

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Procrastinating is the grave where opportunity is buried. It’s opportunity’s assassin. It’s one of the most common and deadliest malady and its toll on prosperity and bliss is heavy.

When we procrastinate, we think to rehash a necessary work someday but someday isn’t a day of the week. We cannot escape from the responsibility of tomorrow by eluding it today.

“Procrastination is like a credit card; it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill”- Christopher Parker.

Notion of Procrastination

Procrastination is the action of unnecessarily and voluntarily delaying or postponing something.

It could be further started as an intentional delay or habitat to inception or ending a task despite knowing that there will be negative consequences for doing so.

The word has origin from the Latin ‘Procrastinatus’, which Pro means — forward and crastinus means — of tomorrow.

It means forgo tasks until the last minute or past their deadline. It’s a general human experience to involve delay in everyday chores or even forgo salient tasks as- submitting academic assignment or a job report, attending an appointment or meeting etc.

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Rebeka Ratry

Diligent student of Civil & Environment Engineering who also converse over Mental Health, Social Cognition & Psychology