Positive Effects Of Procrastination

Procrastination generally occurs in everyone when short-term benefits are the only outcome people with traits like poor self-discipline want, which leads to stress while waiting until the last minute to work. This stress often leads to illness, although occasionally there are ways to deal with it. I mostly believe that there are negative attributes to adjourning, more so than good attributes. Traits of dawdling include how rewarding a task may seem, affecting how hard a person will work on it, and laziness. Some may see procrastination as healthy, such as active procrastination. Research on older history shows the positive effects of waiting to do an activity. Although there are these good effects, stress is a larger effect. Stress causes

A. H. C. Chu and J. N. Choi distinguished two types of protracting, they “found that active procrastinators did possess desirable behavioral and attitudinal characteristics, leading to positive personal outcomes” (Choi and Moran 2009). These positive personal outcomes are a result of waiting at its finest. People with these adequate dilatory skills have probably learned from their deficient habits in the past, that may help everyone know that the view of holding off can change. Frank Partnoy shows historical views on procrastination, in an article about his book, such as how “The Greeks and Romans generally regarded procrastination very highly. The wisest leaders embraced procrastination and would basically sit around and think and not do anything unless they absolutely had to” (Gambino 2012). Those Romans and Greeks were able to enjoy their time of relaxation, using procrastination as a healthy tool rather than a bad habit. Even wise leaders used it! What an amazing realization that we are not getting the idea to procrastinate out of thin

There is a study in Toronto in which “200 Canadian students found that procrastinators put themselves under so much pressure by delaying action that they suffered more stress-related illness than others” (Olson 2008). Stress from adjourning can cause illness? Definitely not a good sign. Especially because most everyone puts off work. In the same study, supporting the fact that illness occurred more with procrastination, the student’s “happy-go-lucky attitudes were replaced with higher rates of headaches, back pain, colds, sleeping problems and allergies” (Olson 2008). These effects are unhealthy, so much so that their lagging could possibly get worse due to their health conditions. If they do not get enough sleep or feel like they are hurting, they will want to sleep to ‘do it tomorrow’ when they are not tired or hurting. This will lead to more stress as the deadline for their work gets closer, leading to more feelings of illness. See the cycle? Procrastination is typically lousy, not only because of the illnesses it can cause, but the poor habits that affect it as