Here’s Why Procrastination Is Sometimes a Good Thing

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Procrastination is often considered a bad thing that prevents you from doing everything you should be doing. People who procrastinate are called lazy, disorganized, or unmotivated, but that’s not always true. In fact, we have reasons to believe that procrastination might even be a good thing sometimes.

If you’re among people who always leave the important things for the last minute, you’re probably familiar with procrastination. But why do you do it? Is there something in this process of putting off the important work that can actually be seen as useful?

Focus

When you’ve reached the deadline, you don’t have time to overthink and overanalyze the work – you have to sit down and do it. That’s why we believe procrastination is good for practicing focus.

Efficiency

You know how you don’t think you’re going to have enough time to finish the project and somehow you manage to do it anyway? That’s because you become more efficient when you don’t have time to put things off anymore.

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Fighting Perfectionism

Perfectionism is one of those things that seems positive on the surface but can actually be paralyzing and prevent you from achieving something meaningful. If you spend a lot of your time procrastinating, you definitely won’t have time for focusing on perfectionism.