PROCRASTINATION: A BEHAVIOR NEED TO BE CHANGED TO GET SUCCESS
Abstract
In this article, the authors have discussed a person’s behavior of delaying a task that can be done well in time but chooses to do it on last minute. This behavior problem exists in almost every aspect in our daily lives. Procrastination is extremely preventive behavior mainly in school setting. This avoidance behavior psychologically termed as procrastination. In such type of behavior, a student procrastinates until the last minute and has to stay up all night to finish his academic task. Because of these students usually face low confidence and fear to fail in task accomplishment. We may think procrastination is a problem that only some people have but we are wrong Studies suggest (and these people did not procrastinate their research) that 80-95% of college students engage in procrastination 75% considering themselves regular procrastinators, that is frankly speaking a lot of people doing their work on the last night. Procrastination appears to be troubling phenomenon.
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