Procrastinate – Why do we do it?

I better say it up front that I don’t have the answer, and this post is more of a musing and not a very informative post. Disclaimer done.

I have been postponing a task that could mean a very big impact in my career, yet the task itself is quite easy. I don’t know why I’ve been dragging myself doing it. I expect it’s because I view the task as somewhat useless and bureaucratic and although I can see the end value, I feel that the task itself has low value.

There are also other times that I think the task is so daunting or feels so big, that I procrastinate. It seems so mammoth that it feels hard to make a start. And normally this big tasks have heavy impact too, hence the size. One way of tackling it is supposedly to break the task into smaller tasks, but even breaking it up requires much effort. In the end I procrastinate.

I think the best way so far to avoid these problems, at least for me, is to collaborate with people, as I am quite ashamed if I ‘don’t pull my weight’ in doing a task, hence I procrastinate less. Maybe I should be doing projects that require more team effort. Let me write that as a task. And procrastinate.

Thank you for reading.