Blogpost 3: Types of Procrastinators

How do people procrastinate? What do they do when they put off tasks; what do they exchange their tasks for?

Firstly, every one of us has their own preference on how they procrastinate. Procrastination as I've said is inevitable; it's an infamous phenomenon mainly teenagers and kids at heart are familiar with.

Let's face it there's nothing like the thrill of a due date of a project to get our blood pumping, right? But before anything else, before the pacing, the freaking out and the dreading of what will happen to you; think back to how you procrastinated. We have our own ways of procrastinating, right? But what's YOUR Procrastination Personality?

I read an article named, "The 12 kinds of Procrastinators" by Neha Prakash where she tackled the different kinds of procrastinators where she provided a comic strip by Angela Liao. In this comic strip there are about 12 kinds of procrastinators and I've searched for different articles concerning the "Types of Procrastinators" Quoting Neha Prakash's statement, "Procrastination is nothing to be ashamed of. Everyone does it, but we each have a unique way of pushing off work to maximize time wasted."

Types of Procrastinators

I almost check out all of the Types. I knew there were a lot of types but I didn't know where to characterized myself. Procrastinating is a devious task for other people because it requires great skill and strength to be a procrastinator and still manage to fulfil their obligations and finish their work.

In another article I've read, "Rare New Form of Procrastination Identified", which was written by Jessica Stillman stated that; Rory Vaden of SouthWestern Consulting claims to have discovered a new form of procrastination: Priority Dilution. This form does not concern laziness, apathy or being disengaged (like traditional procrastination) it has the same result of the traditional one where we delay of the day’s most important activities because your attention shifts to less important tasks. 

To know if you're affected by Priority Dilution,make a list of your activities to help you decide whether you're focusing your energy and attention on the right tasks, rather than wasting effort on non essentials. If you answer no to the following three questions about how you spend your workdays, you might be diluting your priorities:

• Was this activity on my primary to-do list when I arrived at work today?
• Is this activity one of the key drivers of achieving success in my position?
• Does this activity require my unique thought process?

As the article states and I quote, "The average procrastinator knows consciously that they are putting off things that they should be doing, this new form of procrastination isn't as self-evident. Priority dilution is a dangerously deceptive saboteur of their goals because it is unconscious."

As an average procrastinator I'm aware of what I'm doing unlike the Priority Dilution type of procrastinators. Personally  I think that Priority Dilution is a dangerous type of procrastination for you really might get into trouble and you don't even know what's going on and that's kind of scary in my opinion. 

The reason you can’t seem to start on work is that you might just don’t give a damn.You keep putting off what’s important to get this or that little thing out of the way, only to be so tired that you end up procrastinating on your main task; finishing your work. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Yeah we do procrastinate, we put off the work we have now for tomorrow but by procrastinating you just lengthen your work load and shorten your time for the work said. We can't escape the responsibility given to us but we can hide from it 'till we can face the picture and conquer  the work.